Peer Feedback

After producing a final version of our film openings we held a meeting in which a number of groups, including ours, presented their films. For this occasion we created a simple questionnaire in order to receive some peer feedback on our opening.

From this questionnaire we received some very positive and useful 

feedback. 

Having looked at all the questionnaires we got handed back to us we generalised all the comments and found that overall our sub-genre (psychological horror) was clear to the audience. We were also told that the music was appropriate and fitted the opening. Everyone stated that our plot was believable and that the setting and location choice was fitting for the type of horror we were trying to create. The majority of the feedback we received stated that the slow motion turn in the tunnel and the end shot of the villain's eyes were the most successful elements of our opening. In general the only negative feedback we got was about the hug goodbye between the two characters and the dialogue as some people felt it seemed slightly awkward and forced, however we decided that it would be most  beneficial for us to keep that element as it was, in order to ensure the continuity stayed at a high quality.

Overall we got really positive feedback about our film opening and we were very happy with it.

Interim evaluation

After having completed our first cut of our film opening we noticed a number of things that we are not entirely happy with and want to change. Firstly we decided that we want to replace the logo at the beginning as it looks out of focus and unprofessional. A second element we decided  
to replace is the film name at the end, because it doesn't capture enough attention and is a bit plain. We also noticed that the sound isn't particularly high quality and the continuity is bad so we plan to add in sound affects and mute certain tracks to fix this. We also feel looking at the first cut that we would greatly benefit from a soundtrack to ensure attention is captured and held and to aid the build of tension. Our first cut is also a few seconds too long so we have decided to cut the scene of the girls walking down the hill. We though

this would be the best scene to cut as the filming is unsteady and has an amateur feel to it. A further element we noticed that needs adjusting is the clips in the woods at the end. These were filmed on a different day to the rest of the footage and therefore there is quite a noticeable colour difference between some clips, affecting continuity. In order to get rid of this we will need to adjust the colour on the clips in iMovie. Finally we need to add in credits in order to meet the specification for our film opening.

Group Evaluations