Closing Post

As a group, we're very happy with the end result and had so much fun in the process.
Although it's been stressful at times, the end product demonstrates all our hard work and we are all happy with our opening sequence for 'Love You To Death'...
Thank you to everybody who has helped us during the project.

This blog is now closed.

- Alice, Aarti, Mel -
xxx

Audience Feedback

The audience screening was extremely useful and interesting as we were able to receive feedback from a non-media student perspective, which gave us a much better idea of how our film would do, should it be produced.

Here is a summary of our findings:

15year olds:

Liked: the set

Disliked: Dialogue

16 year olds:

Liked: Music

Disliked: Dialogue

17 year olds:

Liked: Music, Characters

Disliked: Dialogue

We can see a common trend in our findings is that most people liked the music but disliked the dialogue so if we were to re-make the opening perhaps the dialogue is one thing that should be revised.

Overall, the males awarded us an average of 8/10 and all said they would watch the rest of the film.

The females gave the sequence an average of 9/10, with a few 7s from people that did not like to watch films in the thriller/horror genre, which is understandable. Both averages show that we successfully managed to target both males and especially the females through our film opening.

A few quotes from our audience:

‘It is set up nicely for the rest of the story’ Male, aged 16

‘It seems very edgy’ Male, aged 17

‘I want to see what happens to the man’ Female, aged 17

A few improvements suggested included:
- Set it at night time
- Make the dinning room look more sinister
- Taking the dialogue out
- Change the title

Overall, however, the feedback we received during the screening was largely positive. This was a great relief for Me, Mel and Alice, as the time and effort we had put into producing it was much appreciated by our audience.

-By Aarti for the group

Questionnaire

Here are some questions for the questionnaire:
- Your details (This will be only their age and gender, so that they are as honest as possible)
- Did you enjoy it?
- Did it make sense?
- What did you enjoy the most? (with options given)
- What did you enjoy the least? (with options given)
- Can you suggest any improvements?
- Would you be interested in seeing the film?
- What genre do you think the film is?
- Does it remind you of any films you've seen? (If yes, which film/s)
- Give it a score from 1-10

Posted by Mel, for the group

Audience Feedback

Seeing as we have now completely finished our production =) it is time to get audience feedback. Today in class Miss Blackborow gave us some tips on things we could do and I decided to blog this so we can later reflect on the things we did or didn’t do.

It is obvious that we will need to hold a Screening Session before which we need to:

- clarify as a group who exactly we want as our audience
- create a suitable questionnaire to record the feedback
- decide whether we are going to book the media room for our screening and if so get in touch with Miss Blackborow asap
- decided whether we are going to hold screenings at home aswell
- decide on how many people we are going to invite

On the day of the Screening we need to:

- arrive ten to fifteen minutes earlier than everyone else
- Set up the classroom (move tables, arrange chairs, shut curtains, lights etc.)
- Test out sequence to see if the DVD works
- Check the volume

During the Session the three of us need to take up either of the following roles:

The Welcoming Person who:
- stands at the entrance showing people where to go and inviting them in
- hands out the questionnaires

The Person who gives the Briefing:
-Thanks all for coming
-explains what we expect from our audience–constructive feedback about the film (what works and what could be better)
- Speaks confidently in a friendly manner

The Technological Person who:
- makes sure the screen is on
- makes sure the DVD is ready to play
- basically presses ‘play’ and ‘stop’


We have already decided to have a group meeting today at 12.30 so we can start discussing all these issues so we are quite organised, and we will definitely be ready for our screening session by next week!

by Aarti for the group

Update:
We have now got a draft of questions for the questionnaire which I will post once I've typed it up. We have also decided that Aarti will be the 'Welcoming person', Alice will be the 'Briefing person' and I will be the 'Technical person', in our screening which has been booked for Wednesday 21st.

- Mel, for the group -

Deadline!

Today our editing came to an end ....
We have met the deadline and are happy with the results! :)

Updates since the last blog:
-We have re-recorded Laura's dialogue. Too many people questioned the pause and thought it was a mistake, so we re-recorded it and put it in.
-Tightend up on the dialogue. We cut frames and dialogue to make it tighter and it now runs a lot smoother and appears more natural. We reduced the treble where needed.
-Extended the dissolve from the bathroom shot to the bedroom shot. Slowing it down has really made it look a lot better!

Change of Production Name
KADAM - to ....

PERSPECTIVE PRODUCTIONS
We decided to change the production name after a group discussion about our company and what type of films it would make and what they would aim to achieve.
We chose 'perspective' because our films would offer the viewer different perspectives on different peoples lives in British society today - including different ethnicity's and cultural backgrounds.
In Love You To Death, the main female character is Greek and the rest of the film could potray an insightful look into Greek culture in London today.
Other films the company would produce would focus on differnt aspects of society, for example the life of a homeless person, etc.
We aim to give people a voice in society who usually don't get seen or heard. Therefore, 'Perspective' works and is sucessful as it gives a main stream viewer a wider 'perspective' on British society today.


-Alice, on behalf of the group.

More Feedback

After doing a screening to other media students and our media teachers we got lots of feedback on things we needed to change or fix, and noticed some ourselves these were as follows:
- Make the dissolve from the shower to the room slower
- Slow down the shot of her doing her lipstick as by the time the audience understand what's happening, the shot's gone
- Move the title 'music by...', and lower all the titles
- Increase the sound on some of the conversation shots
- Change the font of the titles either the colour, remove the glow around them, or completely change the font as it looks too 'studenty'
- See if we can do anything about when she lights the candle to make it less obvious
- Change the dialogue when she says 'your late...for dinner'
- 'LOVE YOU' is too light
- Laura's shots looked like they had a yellowy tint

We went back to our sequence and made most of these changes. We removed the red glow around the font and think this makes it look a lot more proffessional, we also changed the colour so it has a slight grey tint to it which makes the font look less harsh. We also slowed down the lipstick shot and think that now its easier for the audience to see what she's doing. We also changed around a lot of the titles.

When we next have the opportunity to edit we need to fix:
- Sound levels in the conversation
- The shots of Laura lighting the candle
- Tighter cuts in the conversation

After fixing these issues we will do another screening and see if there is anything else that can be changed.

Continued...
We had the opportunity to edit for a bit today (Monday 12th) and have realised that we need to rerecord some of Laura's dialogue, when she says 'it's almost time for dinner'. Although initially we had wanted a pause between 'time' and 'for dinner' we have realised that it didn't really work and although we have edited it, we think that it will work better if we rerecord it.

- Mel, for the group -

Fonts
We used dafont.com to find a suitable font for the credits and these were our final three favourite fonts.

This font is really nice and easy to read. It does not look very romantic though and therefore doesn't quite match the theme of the sequence. It is not sophisticated enough.

This font looks too fancy for credits. It is hard to read and may distract attention off the image.

This font seems really suitable because its simple yet sophisticated and suits the final title 'Love You to Death' .

-by Aarti for the group