The completed evaluation

Our evaluation of our thriller completed


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cYJiT1cQVNk

Additions to what we had done

In class we watched the remaining thriller rough edits from other groups and filled in their questionnaires, before continuing to edit. 

Additions:

1. We added in opening credits of our names and those who took part in film making on final cut express. 

2. With successfully filming the bus scene we were able take out the bad shots where the bus and driver didn't match. So all continuity errors in our thriller opening are now eliminated.   

3. We took out the wind effect we originally added in to make it more dramatic because the fade cross over didn't work entirely well. So we left the music to drone out as it was ending.

4. On the bus scene I cut up the scene and made it change angle frequently so it wasn't boring and still for too long. It also fixed a problem we had with the driver jumping forwards slightly when we cut the footage down. 

5. Did a general trim or extending of some shots. We trimmed down a shot of the antagonist so you only see them for a spilt second before cutting to black. 


Dialogue still hasn't been recorded because after a long discussion, we ran out of time and Abi is still against recording it just to see what it would sound like, because it will sound naff.  

This would also help us improve the narrative of the plot line as some students found it , "Hard to follow", "Bit Vague" and someone even asked "What is it?" 

Questionnaire and our response

In Mondays lesson we exported our rough edits so far to premier to the rest of the class. 

We designed a questionnaire that questioned each section of the marking citera. So then were are able to improve and make nesscary changes to our thriller to make it more conventional to the genre and any adaptions to our effects.

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What we found...


POSITIVE:


SHOTS AND TRANSITIONS: All those asked said the shots were steady and there was a good variety of shot distances. The shot transistions were smooth in most places and worked well.

TITLES: When asked about the opinion on the titles, 1 person said very good (unique) and 7 people said is was good.

SOUNDTRACK: The majority said the sound track works well in setting a solem mood and along with the thriller content as it as a creepy atomsphere. 


NEGATIVE:

SCENES: 3 people said the scenes should be darker lightning to set the mood. 1 person suggested more close ups.

NARRATIVE: 2 people couldn't follow or understand the narrative plot line and suggested there should be some sort of dialogue to explain it, (which we attend record and test).  

TITLES: 1 Person said the font doesn't work with the setting and mood as it is too gory even though it was intentional. I think it doesn't seem to fit because the narrative its clear enough.

TRANSISTIONS: A couple of people suggested that there should be more transistions between shot and the transisition between the wind sound effect and the music should be a lot smoother. We know it isn't smooth because it was a sudden Idea we thought of and didn't have time to sort out because we had t export it for the showing.
   
CONTINUITY: One person noticed the bus drivers were different in the bus shots, (as we filmed on different days). We are currently refilming it to get a better angle and have less of a continuity problem. 

Our video evaluation planning

Instead of writing a report to evaluate our thriller we are filming a directors commentary, explaining what we did, why we did that and how it would appeal to our target audience.

Within the double lesson, we broke up each question and highlighted what we would need to say to cover all parts of the seven questions. 

•  Setting/location
•  Lighting/Soundtrack
• Cast - Who/Why - realism
• Funding? Shot types - Panning difficulties, variety
• Real Thrillers in relation to ours - aspects of other thrillers that are similar 
• Bus scene  
• Continuity issues and fixtures, time - weeks worth of attempts
•  Fades - time passing, sharp cuts
• Group Effort 
• Individual effort  
• Curtain scene - blood red  
• Titles - Why we chose that? 
• Unstable, emotional and instability 
• How will it get around - Youtube, Media Blogs, Social Networking 
• Strengths and Weaknesses 

We have already recorded this. We decided to do it one lunch time. We each decided on who would talk about what and people would inform other aspects that we hadn't talked about after we were talking. 

Evaluation planning

We recorded our speaking parts of the evaluation on Thursday lunchtime. All 4 of us were present, and we recorded in the sound room.

Sophie, Alice and me, went back in on Friday lunchtime to go through the recording and edit it into different parts we talk about. Sophie cut it all on Garage Band and Alice redid some of the speaking because she needed a touch up. 

Then in Fridays lesson, Sophie finished cutting the audio track and we are ready to put it in with our Thriller opening. 


UPDATE:

Did Strengths and Weaknesses in Mondays lesson, and Alice and Sophie edited the speaking and cleared it up Tuesday morning. 

Hysteria- finished

This is our final thriller opening sequence.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsqqL4IxWQQ

By Rebecca Wade, Alice Denmark, Abigail Fish and Sophie Jarvis.