Feedback

 

After showing our two minute film opening to the class for the first time we received the following feedback:

The crow noise after the production logo doesn't fit into our Thriller genre but instead is more of a connotation for Horror, the audience suggested putting it when the logo comes onto the screen and dimming the noise so it is more in the background. This was because the audience said after hearing the crow noise they would aspect the film to be outside so by making the noise softer it would be like the crow was outside the house. (Crows connotate  death which was one of the good points.)

Some said how the reoccurring eyes were a good touch, one of the reasons was that it was enigma of who's eyes they were. They also said the use of spooky music increases tension in the opening but when the girls are in the bedroom it would be better if the music was different; maybe that would show the audience the change in scene and connotate a party. It would also juxtapose the creepy music which would make the opening more effective.

 

Another good point was the make-up used. The viewers mentioned how well done the cut on Effie's neck was and that a lot of films' bad make-up choices ruins them but ours was effective. They also praised how the opening works well as a film opening and doesn't look like a trailer.

Previous Student Film Opening

Risk Assessment

 

Editing Update

When we started editing it seemed easy enough until it got to the later scenes and we realised that there was a bit of bad acting which we couldn't get around, so we made sure we emphasised the few first scenes because they were the best shots, so that the audience would be distracted and not notice the bad acting.
We made use of Photoshop to add a tint of red to Kate's eyes, this was fairly easy because Gabi and Sekemi do photography so they make use of this a lot which came in handy. Jordan also found some un-copyrighted music for us to make use of and put it in with the opening. Overall editing is going well so far

Filming Update

Since we only used one day to film it took us about 4 straight hours, so we all met up at the at the main location which was Olivia Rigg's house and we got to work. We started off by organizing the artificial light which Gabi handled and we did this by using lamps and iphone flashlights. After that had been organised  we started filming but we didn't follow the storyboard because it was easier to start with some of the later scenes and the cellar wasn't ready to be filmed yet.

Halimat and Gabi had a camera each which meant we could film each scene from two different angles which helped our filming easier and quicker. The only problem we had was the fact that it was getting dark but we solved that by closing all curtains so that we wouldn't have a continuity issue.

After filming all the upstairs scenes we went down to the cellar to take the most important scenes which was the centre of the opening. The cellar scenes were fairly easy because all though the lighting was very good, the extra low key lighting was very useful because for thriller and suspense movies it was a typical convention which we used to our complete advantage.

We also took some still shots using Sekemi's camera as evidence for our scenery and make-up used and we knew they would come in handy eventually.