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Friday, 1 April 2011

Audience Feedback Session

This is a video of some audience feedback when we showed the rest of our class our two minute opening.



Positives
Katie: I really like the sound effects and the credits beginning to show Mitch and the other characters.

Mr Oswick: I thought the editing throughout was really crisp and really tight which i thought added a lot to it, you had your raw footage which there is a couple of things we will talk about but what you did with that raw footage was exceptional.

Lucy: I liked it when the camera was in the box and they opened it.

Mr Oswick: (talking about the case scene) it worked really well and actually that shot was framed really nicely with Matt just looking over, the most nicely framed shot in the whole thing i think. It worked really well.
Alex: I liked the way it didn't stay on the same shot for too long and the credits faded in and out to black. Also some of the shot techniques like when the shot looked up towards the sky and came back down to a different area, i thought that was quite good.
Mr Oswick: The changing of scenes was done really well there as you know there was a variety of scenes there. 

Mr Oswick: No shot was really making us drift off it was all really keeping it going.

David: I like the sped up shot that goes down the alleyway, i thought that was really good and effective.

Ana: I liked the ending how you just heard the noise, it was really synchronised.

Mr Oswick: (talking about the baseball bat sound) That worked brilliantly, really nicely 

Hannah: I liked the music it was really calm and gentle and made you think nothing was going to happen then it did so it kept tension throughout.

Mr Oswick: (Talking about the Mendacity title special effect) That was lovely, really really nice, throwing in a little special effect like that takes your film from all films around the country and pulls it out the pack a little bit. That was a really nice effect.

Improvements:
Mr Oswick: I think the dialogue in the woods was a little low. But that can easily be sorted out with proper mic's.

Overall the comments were good about our opening and certain areas seemed to work better than others (such as the briefcase scene) which shows us that if we are to film another coursework piece shots of that quality and framing work better and appeal more than others. 

The comments also highlight the tight editing used in the opening which shows me that my skills using Adobe are of a very good quality and that what i decided to cut from the original footage was the right choice as the opening flowed nicely from scene to scene. 

The feedback also included some adjectives such as "exceptional" and "brilliantly" which shows the audience felt strongly about their opinion of the opening and truely enjoyed it and found it entertaining. 


Mr Oswick did point out that the dialogue could have been recorded better which i did realise when editing the footage however it was too late to re-record it but i will keep this in mind for the next piece of coursework.

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