Audience Feedback

We asked a number of people about our opening.
Here are what some of them said:

Feedback 1`I enjoyed the opening, thought it flowed well and like the moment of suspence at the end of the forest scene. The library scene took a while to get into, but thought the soundtrack fitted perfectly. 4/5`Feedback 2`If i enjoyed action/adventure films i think this would appeal to me more, but never the less it looks good`Feedback 3`Really good. Enjoyed the forest scene. Like the spooky atmosphere with the soundtrack and the transistions. Library scene did the same and built up the tension. Would want to see a film like this in the cinemas. 5/5

Our Opening on Youtube

This is our final movie opening, which posted on youtube. 

Soundtrack

We created our soundtrack using Soundtrack Pro. For the forest soundtrack, we wanted a scary mysterious soundtrack, something that fitted in well with the story of our opening. We used sounds like `Movement bell drone` and `Movement bright feedback` to create that atmosphere.

For the Library scene, we wanted to start with something different. We went with a classical piano sound at the beginning, giving the impression it was a normal trip to the library. Then it went into a more eerie sound, making it sound more dramatic.

I feel both of our soundtracks worked well and we learnt a lot when using this programme. Like the others it was the first time we had used soundtrack pro, meaning we were a bit stuck at first, but we asked the right questions and we worked it out.

How We Made Our Credit/Titles

We made all of our credits with LiveType. LiveType is a programme to create animated title sequence for video projects.

I made most of the titles and found LiveType to be a very simple programme to use.

All of our main titles (The Chase & 2 Weeks Earlier) had a black background, with white writing in a Bank Gothic font.  This gave a simple but bold title.

The rest of the titles are in the same font (Bank Gothic)

Bank Gothic was used for `The Day After Tomorrow`. It is normally used for advertising movies, especially Action films.

Editing!



 We used final cut express for our editing software. This was the set programme for film editing on the macs.


After our teacher showed me how to transfer our clips into the right format correctly, i made a folder for our final clips and started to format all of the 47 clips we had.
After this we started editing. Cutting all of the clips to the time length we wanted. We split the editing equally, although there were some lesson when we both edited, giving our own views on what we thought looked good. Once they were all the correct time , we placed them in the order we wanted, then went through each section in detail.


We used the text on final cut to make trial credits, so we knew where we would place them and what they would look like.

We had a few problems with a few of the scene's. For example the last scene in the library we had to brighten it as it was too dark making it difficult to see. So we used the brightness/contrast filter to improve it. This is the scene after we brightened it, although it is still not perfect, its alot better than it was originally.

This was the first time i had used properly apart from the prelimary task, so i had no prior experience. So i learnt alot during editing our film. Although if i'm completley honest, i did find it quite stressful when things went wrong, for example when transistions didnt play properly due to the length of the clip.