Our complete opening sequence- Forget Me Not

The final and complete opening sequence:




Editing rough cut:
To make sure that we create a product of a high standard, we decided to get some final audience feedback. One of the things that was suggested was that the second shot (of the camera moving towards the female character) looked amateurish. This was deliberate to what we wanted to portray - a faux-naif effect to convey the character as naive and innocent (similarly to the hand held camera). So we counter-balanced the audiences view and our aims by removing the ambient sound (which was increased in speed), by doing this, it comprimised the audiences and groups views into something we believe has improved our product. We were also trying to incoporate appropriate conventions of romance genres by creating a similarity to '500 Days Of Summer'.

Additionally, a minor mistake pointed out was that 'starring' was spelt incorrectly, which we most definatly needed to change in order to avoid an amateur profile.

Ben's Evaluation Website

This is the link to evaluation: http://www.wix.com/basketballben/basketballben

Final Cut Feedback (Editing)

the feedback i got for the final cut was majoritally positive. It was said the black and white was seen as good editing and was appropriate to the film, the voice over fit into the film well and the last shot was said to be impressive. On the other hand it was suggested to take off the words at the end of the film and to enlarge the logo as it was a bit to small. I did not use a shattering font in the titles like it was suggested in the rough cut feedback as the options available were limited and to fantasy like. I took all of this into consideration and then made all the appropriate

Ben's editing contribution

For editing I: researched opening titles; organised the titles with Chloe; helped with transitions (gave advice and suggestions); re-editied titles (enlarging and changing the font) with Dylan; uploaded the footage with Chloe; found the best shots from the original footage with Jade; put the male voice of the character in the footage at the correct space with the entire group.

Jade's Evaluation link

This is the website in which my evaluation is on: it uses different ways of presentation.

www.wix.com/carey_jade/evaluation

Dylan's evaluation link

www.wix.com/dylanmeade/evaluations

Dylan's editing post

When contributing to the editing section of our film, I edited almost everything to do with sound, importing the music from garage band and coincided it to the film where it fit the most. I also arranged all the dialogue (the narrative) and balanced out all of the volumes so each part of the sound (music, dialogue and non diagetic sounds) could be heard to the level where they all compromise each other. Myself and Jade (other member of our group) incorporated the black and white effect and explored the programme to eventually find the rewind tool which we adapted to our scenes. I helped re arranging the scenes to find the correct order, cutting the parts so it would fit into 2 minutes. Lastly, i assisted Ben (another member of our group) directing and composing the titles.

Dylan's final cut feedback for sound

The feedback that we received overall for excellent, our viewers enjoyed the extract and we had various positive feedback from different people. In sound, the feedback was mostly good, some said that they loved the music and thought that it was perfect for the extract and coincided perfectly. However there were some points that the diagetic dialogue didn't fit well with the real time, we have taken this into account and moved the sound so that it fit well. Others said that the narrative was too quiet as well, which we have improved by increasing the volume. There was another criticism that some of the non-diagetic sound was too loud, so we then turned the films sound down to compromise the volume of the music.

Chloe Tetu's Media Evaluation

The following link will take you to my evaluation website which was made for the purpose of presenting my media evaluation on:

http://www.wix.com/chloe_sarah/chloes-media-evaluation-site1