After receiving all of our audience feedback, as a group we went through it to look at what points we could consider when making changes to our opening sequence. We took into account both the positive points made as well as the improvements which were suggested.
The first piece of feedback was very positive, praising the smoky effect paired with the typography at the end of our opening. This is something that my group and I completely agree with, as we were very pleased with how our ending turned out, and thought it was very conventional for our genre. This piece of feedback also said that they liked the 'puddle shot', which I am especially proud of as I helped my mum set up the camera and then film that shot, and I think it adds a creative element regarding camera work to our opening.
For this piece of feedback, we focused more on the improvement, that the title should appear with a more dramatic sound effect. We looked into this and experimented with adding a sound that gave the scene more depth, but it took away from the visual effect of the title, so we decided to stick with what we originally had with the car revving and the smoky exhaust. Also, on this piece of feedback, we were praised for our fake wounds, which were realistic thanks to Charley, who managed to teach herself how to create wounds which didn't look fake, and we decided to use the right amount of wounds so that they were prominent but not overpowering in the opening.
For this piece of feedback, we focused mainly on improvement again, of the pan being too fast. We looked into this, but decided that actually it was a creative shot, and changing the speed to slow it down made it look unrealistic and lost the overall effect of the running scene. Although we took the feedback into consideration and attempted to edit it, for our opening it didn't work slower and so we decided to leave it how it is.
For this piece of feedback, some of the improvements weren't clear enough, as they said that we had used too many titles and they were too fast. This couldn't really be changed, as the placement of our titles and the timings were done due to research and deconstructions of already existing films. It also said to 'record own scene' although all of our shots and scenes had been recorded by our group, and therefore they must've thought that we had found the shot - suggesting that it was of a high enough quality and standard to be professional.
This piece of feedback praised our editing, which as a group we were very proud of as this is something that took a lot of time, effort and teamwork to perfect. After reviewing this piece of feedback, we have added our own production company, which was being changed to add the finishing touches at the time and also looked at changing the scream to make it sound realistic. We looked at many different screams and also tried to create our own scream, but none of which worked as well in the scene and the current scream, so we decided to keep it.
This piece of feedback was vital to our opening scene, and was changed straight away. None of us had realised that the countdown between the castle scene and the running scene was counting the wrong way. This was a very large improvement, but was quick and easy to change - although slightly embarrassing that none of us had realised that it was counting in the wrong direction! After this was changed, we felt much happier with our final product and checked over it again to ensure that we hadn't missed any other vital parts.
Overall, the feedback that we received was very helpful for our group and improved our final product. We are very pleased with our final piece and hope that the audience enjoy our film opening as much as we enjoyed creating it.
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