Individual feedback - Erdinc

Our film opening have been improved by working as a media group. We could of improve it even more and more if we changed around our group planning. At the point today, I believe we have did what we could of done and show the media class of how well we have worked as a group with this good and interesting film opening. Improvements could always be made in a film opening however with our own potential we did what we can do.

In our film opening I was mainly concentrating on sound effects to make it realistic and exciting for our audience, and even dramatic. I have highly contributed on Mise-En-Scene and Editing. We have filmed and edited everything as a group together. I am really happy with our group work and our film. To conclude my feedback i also think there is always something to improve on.

Individual feedback - Ishmail

I feel that our film opening could have been better. As it already is, it's ok in a sense as in that the plot is understandable and there aren't too many errors however it could have a lot better if our groups planning was better, I feel that is one of the main factors which made our group lose marks one the film opening. If our planning was better than we could have identified the mistakes we made and may have gotten better then the intial mark given.

another factor which we should have improved on is camera work, I had to be contantly reminded that shot wasn't in the frame and that it isn't steady etc. My role in this production was being the director and main editor. As I am inexperienced in final cut pro, as many others are, I feel I could have edited the film opening better which in turn make the opening better; this could have been achieved from better research on different styles of editing on the internet. The things which I liked about our opening was the opening credits, I created the "Blood hound Productions" title which I thought was really befitting as it matched the animation in the background.

Overall, after working with my group I can say that I am proud of what we accomplished, as it turned out better than we expected, although factors of the film can still be improved but none the less whats done is done, I still feel that if we had better planning skills we would have gotten a higher mark, so this is our groups target for next years music video.

  

Individual feedback - Azmain

In my opinion, our film opening has turned out good but could have been better. We managed to make our film opening around the designated two minutes. My contribution to the group has been adequate in my opinion,I contributed towards the editing,filming and also took part in the acting in the opening of our film. I made the production company intro "GOLDSMITH FILMS" and also did various bits of editing along the way. I played the main character in our film opening also. I am proud that we managed to make our film opening a success and make it obvious to the audience that the genre was thriller,using the conventions that needed to be used. I believe that I should have done more research into the conventions of the genre tragedy and posted more on the blog about the research that I did. Furthermore, I think that our planning was not on point as we had to do a lot of last minute work, which eventually may have hindered the quality of our work.

Ishmail's Targets

As a Media student I find that I am learning new things everyday, however some of the things that I am learning need improvement. here are the things that I need to work on to become better as a Media student:

• Use of media terminology and examples of mise-en-scene and sound when writing a media essay.

I find that I never, until recently wrote about the sound nor the mise-en-scene, I only wrote about the camera and editing techniques and how that is related to the clip shown.

• Improving on using editing software i.e. Final Cut Pro

I have used many video editing software and have a fairly good knowledge on how to edit video, however when using final cut pro, I found it difficult to adjust to the new layout and use of video effects, it was not an easy challenge to get used to the new tools, and I am still not used to it, so therefore I need to improve on using the editing software, final cut pro.

• Need to pay more attention to class

I have learned a lot during media lessons but sometimes my mind wanders off to its own world, thats when I miss out important information, which means I lack knowledge in the subject and in turn makes my essays very poor and not up to the standard that I wish for it to be.

Summary of feedback recieved - Ishmail

Our fellow students have watched our rough cut of our opening and have given us substantial feedback which will help us improve our coursework for the final deadline. Some of the things that the other groups have stated are:

• Looks like a trailer
• Cannot understand the plot/major plot hole
• Too short
• Not enough use of camera shots and editing techniques

The list above are the things that the other groups feel need improvement on and so what Jerdazis will do, is that we will start with making the opening not look like a trailer and in order for to not look like we need to cut and add more footage; this can be done with the extra footage we have taken as a precaution. Next would be to fix the major plot hole. In order for this to be fixed we must travel to the place where we shot that particular scene and add some extra shots so that the audience don’t waver from the plot also add an insert shot to further establish the story. And lastly would be to use a wide array of camera shots and to give the main character more face time, these things can be done with the extra footage that we have using the different camera shots allocated.

What has changed? By Azmain and Erdinc.

Looking back at our original planning and storyboarding, we have made a few changes in order to make sure the quality of our coursework was at at a higher standard than thought out to be. We noticed that our original storyboard consisted of ideas which didn't make complete sense and wouldn't have looked right when doing the filming,so we decided to change around the story a little bit in order to make the storyline clearer to the audience and also so it establishes the genre as thriller.

Azmain's target settings

-See more of the main character so the audience can establish that the film is about him.
-Use cross dissolve transitions to indicate that the main character is having a flashback.
-Do an insert shot of the couple holding their hands with the wedding rings visible to establish that they are married and are on their honeymoon.
-Refilm the couple coming out of the airport as it not clear as to what is going on,the hug and the dialogue is fairly random so that will need to be changed too.
-Make the establishing shot of the opening of our film explicitly establish the genre of our film.
-Make Juanita's dialogue louder and clearer to hear.
-Get rid of any unnecessary diegetic sound.
-Include shots of the main character 'thinking' so it is obvious to the audience that he cares about his wife and to also evoke empathy.
-Also,a reason to why he cannot just simply hand over the tape.

Erdinc's Targets

1: As a media student I think I should improve more about my camera knowledge and work.
2: I should post more Videos & Ideas on my blog to increase the amount of choices we have as a group for our main draft for filming.
3: I think I should also improve my editing techniques because the more editing ability I have the more better my grades will be.
ErdincYildiz.

5 HOURS - Rough Cut

This is our draft of the final video and below you will see our storyboard and the updates that we have made to it:

here are the updates we have made to the storyboard, you see that we have decided to add an insert shot and and establishing shot.

Erdinc's extra Choice of Music

http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/index.html?feels%5B%5D=Dark&Search=Search 

My main choice of music is

Danse Macabre - Low Strings Finale

 this is because it will suit our ending with a huge noise at the end while the credit '5Hours' come up. 

i think this will attract the audience more because it is a high tempo music. 

As an extra choice of music, i have chosen

Gathering Darkness

this music represents something really creepy coming. not in a horror movie but in a thriller. it might show death is coming. this could also be a interesting tone of music for our film.