Rough Cut
Within mine and Nojus group we made a rough cut of our thriller sequence. This was an important step to making our thriller as it is final draft of what our thriller should be like. This is including editing and sound effects. Our rough cut includes all the music and editing that we will include in the real final sequence. The credits for our thriller are also included. The feedback we received from other students in the class and both our teachers were taken on board.
After we had produced our rough cut it was uploaded onto you tube. Where students in our class and from the year group were able to leave there criticism and comments below. Including what hey though would make our final sequence better. We though we aught to take action on their suggestions as they were part of our target audience. Getting feedback from our target audience rather than Nojus and I picking out the flaws in the piece is a better idea as we would both have been bias to the bits we had created. For example if i had worked hard on a particular frame and it did not look good, I would not want to take it out as i had worked so hard.
On our final sequence we allowed our target audience to leave their feedback, their comments included what went well and what we could of done better. These comments were really helpful as now we know specifically what we should have done better and how we will be able to improve it. The feedback our our video was mainly positive the comments said that they liked the way we added a filter to make the whole sequence give more dramatic effect. From these comments we gathered that we could make our sequence more enjoyable for the audience by adding in background music this would have made the sequence easier to follow. After looking our our film we realised that there was a lot of silence this can be filled in with at least once piece of music playing in the background. Choosing the right music would make our opening sequence more conventional to the thriller genre. We will have to make this change before we upload our final piece. By taking on this criticism we will be able to engage more with our target audience.
Our feedback also said that the second half of our film was not as good as the first half. Unfortunately we had no time to redo the whole our the second half so we will have to make little tweaks and hopefully that will make a difference. The second half of our opening sequence lacked the originality that we produced in the first minute, thus failing to create as much suspense as the audience are able to predict.
Although we had some critism we had positive feedback for the sound that we used. Our feedback said that the second half did not make the audience feel that much suspense. We should have used different angles and have used better cinematography like we did in the first half. Both me and Nojus agreed that the second half of our thriller was had to compare to the fist section after the opening title is shown the sequence ors downhill. In order to make our sequence more thrilling we must change bits of the second half.
The feedback that we received after uploading our rough cut to youtube suggested that we need to improve our second half of our opening sequence, this would then engage our target audience. Our group needs to go back and improve our second half as the first half is more conventional and engages our audience more so that they will be more inclined to watch the rest of our film. This feedback has shown to me that we can still improve our opening sequence. Another negative comment that we received was that we could of added music to the suspenseful parts and professionally fade the music in and out instead of the music cutting straight out.
The changes we will make to our thriller sequence is that we are going to add background music to the places where there is silence. An example of this would be where Nojus is following the victim and in order not to kill the mood of the sequence we just left the silence. Our target audience thought this was abad idea.
In conclusion, the feedback we were given allowed us to rectify any mistakes that we had not noticed. Or that deemed to be unconventional to the thriller genre. By taking on the comments from our target audience we are able to see what they expect to see in a thriller movie .
