evaluation of my feedback

questions asked:

did you find the opening of the horror film effective if yes why?
which features of the horror film did you find most effective?
which parts do you think could be improved and why?
did the opening make you want you to watch the rest of the film?
did you find the opening of the film scary?

i chose to ask these questions as i thought these would give me the best answers to understanding if our horror film opening would be a success or not, and if not why!

from listening what they had to say i am very happy with the feedback, nearly everybody said that the music was really effective and one of the strongest part of our part film and was the most effective part giving off scary vibes, which we was trying to create.
i asked them what they thought could be improved, i think this was the most important question as then we would have a better idea of what to do if we were to do this project again, people said that some of the sound cuts could have been better and that we should have used shorter clips, i agree with this as then it would have created a feel of urgency, one person also said one of the shots where Gwen disappeared. to improve for next time i think spending more time on the editing on the less crucial parts will be better and improve the film.
overall i am really happy from the feed back as everyone said the opening made them want to carry on watching the film, so we must have done a good job!





editing day 4

                                              

we chose this as our final logo for our film opening, by looking at many different logos that are in the film making industry at the moment we noticed the most popular style is a basic bold look that will capture they viewers eye.

we chose this as our final logo as we think it meets the criteria of a good logo, it looks professional and classy but goes with the genre of horror and the name we thought was highly appropriate the genre as well.

so we adds this to the beginning of our film.

effects

we then went on to edit the effects using final cut express.

we decided that to create the best effects for our film using sound it would be appropriate to have the music dissolve into each other instead of straight cut music that would look messy, by dissolving the music into each other and having the music so it slowly gets quiet or slowly gets more intense this would make the editing of the sound more professional, and nicer to listen to.

when adding this effect into our film we did this -
For example we used it right at the beginning of the film opening between the change of music from the church bells to the music box this worked well as it softened the music change up so it was unnoticeable.

(fade out dissolve effect)

Another effect we used was the slow down or speed up tool

this was effective as this type of effect adds to the tension of the scene and we thought it would be useful to add into our film opening as we wanted to create as much tension as possible.
we simply did this by changing the amount of time the clip is shown by, increasing or decreasing the number already given.

we used this quite a lot throughout put movie opening, but the most effective part was when tom was walking towards the building and he turned his head back towards the grave yard, we slowed this but back down as it created tension and built up the atmosphere of the scene.

also an effect that was important to our movie opening was adding text. we did this by clicking on the text tool and simply adding the text, we changed the font and the colour of the text appropriate to the clip on the screen at the time so it stood out to the audience.

WE HAVE FINISHED OUR EDITING

editing day 3

editing

today we started to add captions at the point in the movie opening where tom is walking down from the grave yard to the building, we decided to add the here as it is the first part of the film opening where there is no dialogue and where the chilling music box music is being played.

we used our own names at the beginning of the film and put the roles we played in the making of the film

"Filmed by mia goodley"

"Staring gwen caple
rosy vega
tom white"

music/ sound

today we also started to add sound into our film opening.

i believe that in a horror film sound is extremely crucial as this build the tension and gets people on the edge of their seats, if i am getting to scared watching a horror film i will turn the sound off to make the scene less scary, so from my personal experiences i believe that sound has a huge role to play in the horror film genre to get the audience really scared.

so we started adding the music in the parts we wanted to come across most scary, we used strong eerie music that is clear but chilling at the same time and we also chose to use a music box at the beginning of the film, again i believe that also having music related to children creates a better and more scary atmosphere, also as our film is about a man whose lost his child this was really relevant to our film and we decided that we would use it as an iconic piece throughout our film, starting by using it as he is walking away from his child grave.

we found our sounds from a website called free sounds  http://www.freesounds.org/ .