CdL; Questions 1, 2, 3 and 6 Evaluation

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CdL; Question 5: How did you address/attract your audience?

• Include a link to audience research post- SurveyMonkey
• Clips of responses from the screening
• Use of young characters- core horror audience, creates empathy for characters
• Use of motifs and ideas similar to romance films which have a similar core audience

G4: Final Cut

This is the opening of our film, Ditched, that will be shown on 29-03-12 to an audience who we will ask to fill in a questionnaire on the effectiveness of our opening.

CdL; Reflections on 26/03/12 and 27/03/12

• RB and CdL stayed after school on 23/03/12 and exported the finished version of our opening
• This week will be spent completing some individual and collaborative evaluations of the work, which we will post on here
• Final changes to the opening included turning down the soundtrack at the point of the doorbell ringing and replacing this with an extended version of a reverse cymbal sound effect from Freesound.org which RB found and we considered particularly effective in building the tension.

FK: Audience Question Postproduction

• We had to make a questionnaire to distribute during the screening on the 29/03/2012
• We used a mixture of scaled, open and closed questions in order to get sufficent and useful feedback from our audience.
• We are all asking some peers and staff to come along to view our film.
• Here is an example of the questionnaire

Q1) Would you say the girl was an antagonist or protagonist?

a)      Protagonist

b)      Antagonist

c)      Not sure

Q2) On the scale please circle your understanding of the narrative

4- Understand fully

3- Understand

2- Not sure what’s going on

1- No idea

Q3) Which of the following aspects of the title did you think were effective? (Please tick the appropriate box)

	Highly Effective	Effective	Neither	Ineffective	Highly Ineffective
Title
Font
Colour

   Q4) Would you be interested in viewing the full feature film if it was available?

a)      Yes

b)      No

c)      Maybe

Q5)  On the scale please circle the effectiveness of the sound track

4) Goes very well with the film

3) Good, but could be improved slightly

2) Satisfactory

1) Does not work well at all

Q6) Do you think the flashbacks give enough information about the murders?

a)      Yes

b)      No

Q7) If no, what other information would you include?

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Q8) Overall how successful would you say the editing was? Please tick one answer.

Brilliant	Good	Some problems but     majority works well	Poor

FK: Reflections on 23/03/2012

• FK came in during a free period, and made the titles fade into black
• FK also turned down some of the sound (the door bell) in order to make it fit with the piece
• During the class lesson we recieved feedback from Mrs Johnson who said we needed to change the contrast on some of our dining room scenes.
• CdL and RB did this by creating a "my preset" option within edit and dragging this onto the clip.

CdL; Reflections on 22/03/12

• All took turns editing together some more of the flashbacks to lengthen the opening
• FK and RB added fade effects to the flashbacks which add to the disjointed sense of the piece, and also helps to make it a little longer
• FK and RB also synced the soundtrack with different events on screen, however this is quite complicated as none of us are experienced with the music side of things, and is not yet finished
• RB changed the titles so that they are now in our chosen font, Face Your Fears, from Dafont.com, and CdL and RB discussed adding motion or a motif to the actual title of the film which appears at the end of the sequence. We also considerd the sizing of the title, as havng it filling the screen seemed childish and out of place with the rest of the opening.
• CdL and RB experimented with extending the radio static at the beginninmg of the sequence, as we didn't want the sound and title screento start at the same time. However we experienced some compliactions with the actual length of the sound, and so have had to copy parts of it to make sure it lasts for long enough. This can be changed after we receive feedback from teachers and technicians.