WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM YOUR AUDIENCE

FEEDBACK?Question 8

Rough cut feedback; impact to final piece

Positive Feedback

This type of feedback, told us which scenes we should keep the same; as our target audience already liked these elements, therefore only required final enhancements rather than extensive editing for the final product. Moreover, we were also reassured that we used a range of shots; so did not need to use any ‘deleted’ footage for this purpose of broadening types of shots.

Constructive Comments

Rough cut Final piece

After spending time editing the CCTV scene, the overall length dropped dramatically; as we had not yet edited the timelapse at the time of the rough cut.

- Added sounds of footsteps; however we would of liked to explore the art of Foley if we had more time.

Sped up footage of club scene & removed some shots from the chemicals (lab) scene.

We received many positive comments on our use of editing, our target audience seemed to highlight the eye changing colour effect; which meant that it was worth the time we put into it. We aimed for this scene to stand out; making our film opening more memorable.

Feedback from final piece

In some key frames of the sequence, when enlarged you can see a slight error, where we have not adjusted the colour mask during this frame. However, it is worth noting the level of precision this type of effect required, as well as the time it demanded. Furthermore, this was our first time using special effects to this extent. If we were to edit this scene now, I’d spend more time on this sequence and adjust the colour mask for more frames per second, to make any errors such as id keep the colour mask at safe distance within the circumferance of the iris on the key frames; using precision editing (zoomed in on the iris while editing and going through the sequence frame by frame.

We were not able to lock onto the eye colour using the eye dropper tool, as our actress had a darker eye colour; which caused the eye dropper to be unable to differentiate between the iris & her makeup.

In response to this comment, if we were able to make changes now, id say that we could move the titles so that they were not so close to the corners; however, we were following the genre conventions from Sourcecode; and being close to the corners was a part of this convention. Furthermore, for their comment of how they consider the camera to be ‘shaky’, we would apply ’stabilisation’ to any shots they considered to by like this.

When we edited our opening scene from the rough-cut; to reduce the overall length, it disturbed the previously ‘in sync’ beats of the soundtrack with the ‘match-on-action’ / frame changes (transitions between shots). To rectify this, we’d need to edit the music through GarageBand to the length of the shots & transitions specifically to change beats precisely.

The handcuff removal scene was a plot change that we made on the filming day, as our originally planned scene was considered to be to ‘supernatural’ and broke the genre conventions, so we opted for a conventional (natural) escape. To prevent this scene seeming to ‘easy’, we could either: reshoot to make it look like more of a struggle or rewrite then reshoot the scene with more time planning it.

With a keen eye while spotting for continuity errors, you can see that in the first frame of the CCTV footage, it appears Alice is not wearing the handcuff put around her arm in the previous scene; however, in the following frame, it appears again on her wrist. When going through the rough-cut version (before I edited the CCTV scene), I noticed that in fact, the handcuff has moved up her arm in the first frame, then when she sits up, it has moved down again; giving the impression it was missing.

To rectify this, I’d either go for,- A reshoot of this scene: ensuring no shots where the handcuff goes into a blind spot within jump cuts.- Or alternatively just removing the first frame; which is far easier as it is not essential to the scene; moreover, there is also other deleted footage from this scene to replace it with if need be.