Film Opening Final Cut

This is our finished product for our film opening task.

Film Opening Second Rough Cut and Feedback

This is our group's second rough cut of our film opening. After doing a lot of work on our film opening we decided to get some more feedback from others, including our target audience (over 15's) to see if we can improve our film more in different ways to suit our target audience's demands. We still need to do a lot more work in order to get our film opening to match our shot list, however our final cut of our film opening will show this.

Feedback from Year 11; 15-16 years old (our target audience):
- They really liked the storyline and our ideas for the film that are apparent in the film opening.
- They didn't understand the park scene at the end as the swing was a child's swing and not a swing for an older teenager like the sort that are being murdered in the film opening. It goes from being dark to too bright, confused them.
- The pictures on the wall shots go on for too long and can distract the audience's attention.
- In the film opening the television gets switched off and then all of a sudden we can hear the news report go over the top of other clips.
- They recognised the genre straight away.
- 10/25 of our audience want to watch the rest of the film.

We gathered from this feedback that we needed to either try and turn down the brightness even more in the park scene or discuss as a group and get rid of this scene altogether. We needed to shorten down the part where the pictures are being shown on the wall. Stick to the shot list and sort out which scenes go where to avoid confusion with the scene where the television turns off, by doing this we hope that more of our audience will want to watch the rest of our film.

Feedback from Year 13; 17-18 years old (also around our target audience as it's 15+)
- Really liked the part of the title where it gets typewritten, however the whole title should have that type of transition.
- Liked the scream, the evil laugh at the end of the film opening and the layering of sound.
- Titles and institutional logos are needed in order to know that the whole piece is a film opening and not just a part of the film.
- The photos of the girls on the wall go on for way too long and need to be shortened.

We took this feedback into consideration and decided as a group that we would have the whole title at the beginning in the same transition, we had thought of doing this before but would leave those ideas till the end as they were very time consuming; this being as we didn't have a transition for this title and had to each letter separately. We would add titles to the piece and the right amount in the correct order and institutional logos as well as the first lot of feedback we got from our second rough cut, we will need to shorten down the picture scene to avoid distraction.

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Film Opening First Rough Cut and Feedback

This is our group's first rough cut of our film, everything is not in the right order and has not got the right time limit on each frame to match our shot list, this is from the time of our editing process.

We did get quite a bit of feedback from our first rough cut just to see what our audience was roughly thinking about our film opening, this was the feedback we received:

Positives received:
The storyline seems quite clear in ways that the audience know what is happening, can tell by the film opening that the film is a horror, like the sounds over the top of the film opening.

Improvements:
Pictures on the wall shots are a great idea, however, they go on for too long, there are no titles in our film opening which is confusing, there are no starting logos and at the end the swing doesn't make sense at it's a child's swing and it seems to the audience that he is after teenagers/young women? Goes from dark to really light as well can be confusing.

As a group we have decided that we need to improve a great deal on our film opening. We need to: Shorten the scene with the pictures on the wall, add titles and logos to our piece and in the right order as well as, either adjusting brightness and contrast of the park scene or to decide not keep it at all.

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Final Shotlist

This our final shot list which we will be going by.

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Initial Shotlist

This is our first initial shot list.

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Titles in our Opening

In order to save time when editing we decided to organise in what order our titles will go and what they will say..

1. Our first title will be Studio Pictures

2. In association with Orange Productions

3. Main Actor/Actress: Amy Wilding

4. Actor: Robert Ransom

5. Film Title: The Case of Kate Young

Actor : Glen Harries

Actress: Yasmin Young

Actress: Roxanne Ransom

Casting by Aaron Evans

Co Producer Will Howlett

Titles by Paige Lyons

Music by Millie Stone

Costume Designer Jessica Foster

Film Editor Emily Wallace

Production Designer Amy Welsh

Director of Photography Lauren Dinnes

Co-Executive Joanna Hyde

Excutive Producer Kat Ransom

Produced by Alex Cockburn

Screenplay by Charley Boughen

Directed by Jessica Wilding

These are the order in which our titles will run during our film opening.

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Reconsideration of Costume

When casting the actors for our specific roles we have to consider what the actor looks like and the type of costume they would wear. As we have already decided on costumes we just have to reconsider the costumes and see if we have to change anything to suit the actor if any problems occur.

News Reporter: We did not have to reconsider the costume or make-up for the news reporter as their clothing considering their profession are usually suits/smart wear. Our initial ideas still work and will be kept the same for this actor.

Victim in the bath: We did not reconsider the colour of clothing for this character however we did decide to change the top slightly, instead of wearing a plain top we decided to wear a top provided from one of our group members  just in case it looked as too planned, we decided to get the actor to wear a top that is casual/everyday clothing. We also ripped the leggings to make the murder more realistic. We changed the clothing according to our cast to make it look more like a real murder crime scene. Additionally, the make-up stayed the same by pouring fake blood on the actor/victim as said in our initial ideas.

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Costumes by: Kat Ransom