Finished Thriller opening

Making the title sequence

In out title sequence, we start with long takes. Instead of straight cuts, we used fades to move the film along, adding more a flow between the sequence. The font is placed in the right bottom corner, using Adobes own font called 'Adobe castan pro' in regular size. As we start seeing the action, the shots speed up a tad and we come away from fades and into straight cuts. When the antagonist starts cleaning, the fades begin again. At the end when the screen cuts to black, and the title just pops up. it doesn't fade in. This sequence can be seen in the first draft blog.

Making an ident

At first, Beata wanted Rabid Swan. It was safe to say none of us like that so it was decided it was going to be named Dark Swan, which is much better because out thriller is dark and gothic. However the ident made by Beata wasn't what we wanted, so Jake decided to create one. in the end it was Dark productions instead of JARB Productions. 

Jake screen recorded a Gif/Jif of a candle flickering and put it into imovie. He then went to an online website where he could download fonts in front of a green background. Once he had downloaded the font he wanted to put it through the green screen function on imovie and added it to the candle shot where he got the final ident. Jake made two versions with different fonts incase the group didn't like the one he selected.

Audience feedback

Question 1: Did you like the film?
Overall we had positive feedback, Everyone said that they enjoyed the film.

Question 2: Did you understand the storyline?
Almost everyone said that they completely understood the storyline with only one person saying that they had some questions which were about why the character did what she did.

Question 3: Is there anything that you think we should reconsider?
A small amount of the people raised concern about the organisation of the final shots but most of the people felt that the organisation was not much of a problem.

Question 4: Are there any other comments about the film that you would like to make regarding anything?
For this question one person said that the sound may need to be looked at as it broke the continuity of the film.

So what was changed? 
Slight tweak to the sound and cut down the length of one shot. Like I said in the rough cut post, I doubted that we needed to change much on the film 

Screening

The film was shown to some students in year 13, who had already made a thriller so they knew what to expect. They responded really well with the film and any worry was eliminated with the feedback we received.

'Runaway' first draft and Evaluation

This is a practically finished film, but we're going to get all the audience feedback and see if there are any changes that need to be made. Overall we like this version of the film and may only need to make a few slight changes, if we need to make any at all...

Evaluation Q7 - Looking back at your preliminary task,what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the product?

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