Rough Cut Feedback and Changes I Would Make

Planning – Feedback from Rough Cut

After creating the rough cut I showed to various peers of multiple ages to see what the feedback would be.

Positives

• Sound is intense
• Good title font
• Titles appear in and out in time
• Door shift focus is good
• Theme clearly established
• Production logo is brilliant
• Interesting character established
• Intriguing plot and would want to watch on to find out more
• Steady camera work but shaky in places to heighten the intensity
• Good mise-en-scene and props

Negatives

• "Audio quality is a little poor"

This feedback is vital to me as it allows me to now focus much more on the audio rather than the visuals of film opening, I can spend a great deal of time editing the sound on the clips to make the diagetic sound more appealing and less harsh to the ears

• "The exposure on some shots is too dark"

With this feedback I can now go back and use the editing software to change the brightness and exposure on the shots to make them look in the best light as possible without it looking artificial

• "The acting is not the best quality"

This feedback is useful to me in the future but I cannot change the actor at this time, as production for the opening titles has wrapped. The actor was proficient enough to complete the task in hand but after this feedback I did re-edit some clips to cut out parts where the actor was not the best.

• "Potentially too many intertitles"

This feedback is valid as there are quite a few intertitles in my film opening, I did remove some intertitles and I will go back and remove a few more to make the narrative flow more. However I do feel the intertitles allow it to be more intense and suspenseful as they break up the shocking revelations seen on screen.

• "Costume for the main actor is a little off"

In hindsight the top half of the costume for the character did not have as much thought put into it as the bottom half with black trousers and smart shoes. The character is supposed to be more casual as he is the detective vising the scene of the crime before he officially should, but it is perhaps a little too casual. This feedback will allow me to critique my opening more easily in the evaluation.

• "Needs to have some kind of underlying soundtrack"

This feedback it very useful to me as it shows that the audience wants what I was planning to include, the film opening does need a subtle soundtrack that is slow when the character is exploring but picks up in intensity for the cuts to black and the title. I will create and add a soundtrack using online software in order to make the film opening as suspenseful as possible.