Audience Feedback

How Do,

We've spent the last lesson creating an audience feedback powerpoint that will be shown to the AS Media Studies group tommorow. We have asked a combination of questions about The Film, The Review and The Poster. The questions are as follows;

FILM

1. Did you enjoy the film?
2. What was your opinion on the pace of the film?
3.  Did you think the narritive was clear?
4. Comment on the complexity of the film.
5. What could be improved in this film?
6. Any more comments?

POSTER

1. What did you like about the poster?
2. What would you improve about the poster?

REVIEW

1. What did you like about the review?
2. Would you want to watch this film after reading this review?

We will keep you 'posted' (Hehe)
May the force be with you.

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First Draft Complete

Hoorah! Finally completed the first draft of the film, poster and review have been handed in.

Good times :D

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First Draft is Rendered!

Right, so the first draft has been rendered to the school computers, and is ready to be test screened to potential viewers.

Before we did export the final movie, we made a few changes to the clips before Violet appears. We upped the contrast and took the brightness down, aswell as adding a 50% black and white filter to the shots. We also increased the shadow blues, to create a bleak and dismal look, modelled on some of the shots from 'The Road'. If I remember, I will upload a before and after shot of the edited shots, but until then you can see a  still from The Road and trust us that it looks a bit like it!



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Overdubbing

Morning,

Just been looking at the footage, and one of the main problems that is consistant throughout the project is the sound quality. We filmed on a particularly windy day, and unfortunately that interfeered with the microphone, distorting some of the sound. For the most part, it's not too much of a problem, however in a lot of the film I feel the distortion of the vocals takes away from the poiniancy of the dialogue.

We hope we'll be able to rectify this by re-recording some of the dialogue, using an external microphone. I plan to isolate the parts that need recording, and export them as audio files. I then plan to loop the clips and play them through headphones to the actors, who will then record them again into the mic. Finally, I will delete the audio off the videos in the project, and replace them with the newly recorded clips, that combined with some background noise we recorded should sound substancially better.

Hopefully, this should sort it,

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Getting there!

Hey,

Been a while since I've posted on the blog, due to (you've guessed it) technical difficulties. However, things are most certainly looking up. Using the structure of our initial Premiere Pro file, we've managed to reconstruct the bare bones of The Lost Ones in Sony Vegas. This means we now just have to do little tweaks (the stop motion, cut scenes, colouring, overdub etc) and we can export a first draft! Hooray! Be expecting it by the end of next week.

We plan on a test screening of the film, once the first draft is complete to gather audience feedback, so be expecting the results of that soon as well.

Onwards and upwards I guess,

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... ok.

5 months after we started, we now have to start FROM SCRATCH in Sony Vegas.

............ oh.

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4 months in...

We're now entering the fourth month where we haven't been able to edit our footage due to technical complications at school, so I thought I would just let you know whats happening.

Over the Christmas holidays, all the computers had been upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7, and the amount of RAM had been doubled. However, when we opened Adobe Premiere Pro, the software was still in the 30 day trial, and would not allow use to import MP4 files, which is pretty impractical, seen as though all our footage is in that particular format.

Just about to head up to the Media room for 2 hours of potential editing time, where we are hoping the computers will have been sorted. In 20 minutes, you will either hear from a very happy Patrick, or a manically depressed one.

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Cashback (2004) - Review

So, over the Christmas holidays I took out a LOVEFiLM subscription on my Xbox 360, and came across a 20 minute short film called Cashback. It follows the story of a man working the night shift at Sainsbury's who is obsessed by the female form.

What I really liked about the film was how the director managed to capture the stillness and relaxed nature of an imaginary thought. When the main character was imagining drawing the various people in the shop, he was quite literaly taken to his own little world where everyone was perfectly still. It showed how people cope in various bleak situations, which I feel is very relatable to our own project.

I would like to take some of the sound features in this short film as inspiration for my own. When the man was in his own imaginary world, the sound almost sounded like he was submerged under water, creating a truly isolated mood.

There's a lot of inspiration we can take from this film.


If you want to watch the film, and have a LOVEFiLM streaming account, follow this link - http://www.lovefilm.com/film/Cashback/138364/?play_immediately=1 

RATING: 18 - Adult Scenes