Feedback session - 25th of November .

At 9.45 our media group held a feedback session in the college and we handed out questionnaires for them to fill in, i'll be posting the questionnaire after this post hopefully, and we managed to get 18 recipients. The feedback should be quite useful and Nelson is already fine-tuning our production in response to feedback, in terms of lighting.

Our first question was "What do you think would be an appropriate name for this movie?"

Responses:

Nightmare
The dream
Dream
Nightmare
The mask
Haunted
Scare
Torment
Slash

The other responses were either non-existent or spurious. These ones may well be helpful in us deciding on our name for our production.

Our second question was "Did you think the lighting was too dark?"

Responses:

No - apart from where Catrin looks up at the tree
Yes - in some parts
No
No
No
No
No
No
Nah
No
No
No
No
Nope
Nope
No
Yes - at some points
No
No - looks good

Tally:

2 Yes
16 No / Nope / Nah

From this feedback we can conclude that although our lighting was done reasonably well , certain areas needed lighting changes and Nelson is now adjusting these.

Third question was "Did you think the music was appropriate?"

Responses:

Yes
Yes, it's ace :)
Yes
Yes
Yes it was good
Yes
Yes
Yes was a good choice of music
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yeah
Yup
Yes
No-too lord-of-ring-ey
Yes
Yes, quite

Tally:

1 - No
17 - Yes

From this this feedback, i can concur that the majority of people enjoyed the music selection however one believed it was too similar to The Lord of The Ring theme tune however we've decided this was an anomaly and have kept the music the same.
Fourth question: "Did it make you want to watch the rest of the film?"

Responses:

Yes
Yes :)
Yes
Yes - kind of
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yeah
Yeah
Yes
Yes
Yes - kinda
Yes
Yeah
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes - indeedy

Tally:

ALL YES

We were extremely pleased with the feedback from these questions and were very glad that nobody put no.

Fifth question "Did you like the flashing scenes of the bedroom?"

No - distracted from the chase
No
Yes
No
Yes - i did
No - more flashing needed
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yeah - kinda
Yes - made sense
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes - mainly
Yes - perhaps they could last a bit longer

Tally:

4 - No
14 - Yes

The responses were mainly positive, however a few negatives. We do feel however feel that the flashing is a key part of our production and as such we will be keeping them consistent.

Any other comments section responses:

Nice film blud
The bit where Catrin standing by the tree wasn't very clear at first
Very good
Wow really good, favourite - well done!
Amazing, beast

Overall, Very pleased with the feedback and we are tweaking it in response to the feedback obtained, but the responses were very positive :)

Thriller opening notes

This is basically me typing my notes up from class from a while ago. They are on three different thriller openings. So, here goes...

The book of eli:

Setting of the scene with eerie whistling sound effects and then a bang accompanied by a white light.Then shadows and fog in a murky forest. The camera pans over an empty gun (hope perhaps gone, even blullets couldn't help). Then we see a dead body, bringing a macabre effect to the scene. There is plenty of trees and the camera pans across these, giving the imprssion of perhaps bars and entrapment. There is a hiddden face with a gas mask and eerie breathing and they have a strange weapon trianed on an abnormal creature, mystery is extremely prevailant and the creature too is abnormal adding to this mystery. It ends with a death.

Brick:

Running water , dark tunnel and a close up of the man's face. Strange noises, teasing, tantalising with underlying tension. An alarm bell is going off as well. We're introduced to death imnstantly and the girl too has a hidden face and the guy looks very traumatised and upset, he's focusing on her features. The bracelet is focused on too, could be significant. It cuts to him by the lockers, looking very isolated. Then another scene where he is isolated by the telephone box which is ringing, and it shouldn't ? And thus follows an awkward phone conversation where she sounds upset and he doesn't sound too pleased to hear from her and she is evasive and rambling and it's clear they have a past together. Then the phone goes dead as a car roars up and a cigarrette is chucked out. The driver remains anonymous so we only know 2 characters still.

Gothika:

Starts off blurry but then focuses and there is violiny, dark music. There's drwan out sound with an eeri voice mentioning the devil. There's a good recollection from her. She is clearly crazy and has suffered a brekdown and is crying during the interview. She's also angry and traumatised. They're in a cage, isolated and barred away from the world. The conversation is intense and deep. The detective is very professional and is trying to extract information however the crazy woman is unwelcoming. Us looking at the scene also feels like intruding some big secret.

Competition

I started looking at what sort of competition was being produced, or had been produced, by other AS Media students doing a similar task to ours. I found this opening called "The Hunted" which related to our own production in that it was a chase, in a similar location. We also hoped to gain tips from watching similar videos and i found this to be particularly useful research.

Amendments to the shoot details

Our shoot that was scheduled was relatively unsuccessful and as such has been re-scheduled for Sunday the 7th of November at a time of approximately 2 , and all other details will remain consistent.