Feedback on our Final Project

Positives

• The magnifying glass was effective because it shows the audience what to focus on
• Good Logo
• Music is effective and created suspense
• Shot variety was good

Negatives

• Music was quite repetitive
• The shots were quite repetitive
• Could use quicker shots to create more suspense
• Quite long - needed to be sped up to add more suspense to the whole opening

We think that our feedback was quite good overall and we do agree with what we need to improve to make our thriller opening better.

T2-52 Final Video

Font for Credits

For our thriller opening, we used the website DaFont. There was a range of different types of fonts to choose from, with different group fonts to choose from. The font type is called "Payday" and looks like this:





We think that the credits match our genre of film because of the way that the font looks, its creepy and bold, so that it stands out and doesn't blend in too much with the film. We will be editing the credits in along with the music and video.

What we liked in another groups Thriller Opening and what we need to do to improve our Thriller.

We really like the credits that were used in T2-51's opening because it looked proffesional and really reinforced that what we were watching was a thriller due to the font type and colour. We need to make our credits flow more into our thriller and edit the clips more to re-inforce a more creepy and thriller like vibe.

We agree with our feedback on the credits, music and making some of our clips shorter to give it more tention, as we want to create a realy effective thriller opening. we like our font type for the credits but we need to edit them in better and fit them into the clips so it looks more proffesional. We need to create some really effective music, which we will focus on next week as this is part of the mise-en-scene that creates the thriller atmosphere to our opening. Finally, we may shorten some of our clips to create more tention and suspense which was suggested by other groups.

Feedback from T2-53

The clips were too long so therefore it didn't build any tension. In our opinion we would shorten the clips to make it more snappy and to use video filters and transitions to vary the look of the shots. We liked the magnifying class as it was unique and stands out. Also a good range of shot types were used.

feedback from T2-54

We found your film interesting. We felt that if the shots were more snappy and quicker it could build a little more suspense. The credits were extremely effective as it fits in with the conventions of a thriller. The editing made it continuous which made it clear to the audience what was going on. Overall, it was good to watch 

T2-49 comments

The opening was good, but it was quite long, the cuts were long so tension wasn't created, if sound was included the opening would be tenser and grab your attention more.

The narrative was centered around a murder, although the actual murder wasn't shown. The credits didn't fit, didn't give us much information e.g. the name of the film, who did what etc. and they were very randomly placed with one near the beginning and one right at the end.

T2-50

The sound needs to be included to create or pertray the mood of the shot/clip.
The range of camera angles and distences were good.
The pans were good because they showed a lot of information in one shot.
The opening sequence was too long and as it seemed to show similar clips towards the end, it seemed too much the same, tedious. As you got a rough idea of the plot with the clips before.
The ident was good but it was quite basic, could have been adapted by using motion key.

Feed back from T2-51

• Sound needs to be included because we were unaware how to react towards the character and whether he was the protagonist or the antagonist.
• Clips between credits should be shorter as the clips didn't capture your attention enough
• Shots were clever how we saw the character looking over notes and evidence.
• Repeating important clips and jumps within one shot were clever and added excitment to it and made you think about what he was doing and made you question why.
• The colours were dull which worked well as most thrillers use dull colouring and lighting to set the mood.

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Thriller Opening Deadlines

Monday 7th March
9am - Filming Deadline

Wednesday 9th March
12:20pm - Rough Cut Deadline

Thursday 10th March
Watching each others rough cuts - offering each other advice

Wednesday 16th  March
12:20pm - Final Cut Deadline

Monday 21st March
9am - Draft Evaluation Due in via Email