First Screening

Today we screened our Opening Sequence to an audience. This screening was a way ion which we could gain feedback and comments in relation to the film. When trying to screen our opening, we encountered many problems such as, when editing our footage and adding the titles and credits we came to noticed that we could not save our sequence. This proved to be a serious problem as we had made editing changes and if these were lost our footage as whole could be affected and the audience may not receive the same effect as we would have hoped. In the end we screened our opening sequence on a smaller screen that we was working on.

We produced a short Questionnaire based upon our footage. We asked general questions form which we could gain the audiences opinion and also their criticise. In our questionnaire there were 5 questions

Feedback: The Nervous bit

There were two types of feedback we received, Verbal Feedback and Written Feedback.

Verbal Feedback

When given the chance the audience were able to tell us verbally what things they liked about the film. We were given credit for the use of the blue filter in the fist ha;f of the opening scene. Also the use of our camera shots, like the train station shots were considered to be effective. The fact that our footage was flowing really well showed the audience that we had a solid continuity effect. The use of the loud music in the 2nd scene was very effective and seemed to correlate to the actual footage and what was happening in those scenes. The use of the natural sounds in the first half e.g the birds in the background gave the film a feel of realism. There were many improvements that were stated and these were that the window zoom in shot needed to be more longer as it seamed out of place and had no real relation to the footage before and after it. The contrast between the two scenes were very evident and too sharp.

Written feedback

The written feedback that we received was very positive overall. We were congratulated on the use off effects such as the White light flash to cut into different scenes. Also the use of our different camera shots such as over the shoulder shots when Will was walking through the tunnel. We were commented positively on how our camera shots worked really well in contrast with the music. The music was really a good factor as well because it was evident to see that it was non diagetic. Again we were credited for our use of the blue filter in the first scenes of the opening.

The comments made regarding things the audience did not like and did not find effective was again the cut between the zoom in the sky shot and then to the when Will is walking through the station; this scene also hand diagetic sounds of people talking and this could be considered as a filming error. Also the change in these scenes is also evident from how the colour of both scenes are in contrast their for making the two scenes seem not linked. We were also commented on the ending and how it was abrupt .