To do list

We found the feedback very useful and decided to work on making it better straight away.

To do List:
Add in knock on the door
Lower Sians groan
Edit smoking section
Regulate sound levels
Add in titles
Contrast levels

We also are in need of a title, we have a few names in mind but nothing that seems to scream 'amazing!'

Once we have finished doing our little tweaks, we will screen it and see what our fellow friends think of it.

Teacher Feedback

During our after school session on Thursday we decided to recieve feedback from one of our teachers on the progress of our sequence so far.
Thursday feedback- THR

POSITIVE
It is tightly cut
The transition between the hostage videos are very well done
The change in music fits the mood & our actress’ change in emotion
Sian’s POV shot
Lighting on the cigarette shots were very good
Font & colour are nice

NEGATIVE
Bekah is looking at the top camera
Lower the music slightly
Lower Sian’s groan
Adam’s POV looks a bit out of place
Cut down some of the ghosting
Cut down cigarette section

Friday feedback- BLK

POSITIVE
Smoking looks effective
Take away ghost effect on part of the cigarette footage

NEGATIVE
Cross-cutting too quickly, fad up slowly onto Adam
Make the walking longer, at the moment its too rushed
Extend the beginning sequence
Wiping eyes- ghosting it
Dialogue is a bit drowned
Cut to the lighting of the cigarette
Cut to close-up
Fade out title

Music

We were finding it very difficult to find a piece of music that fitted in well enough for the beginning of our sequence, however fortunately on thursday me & Tom sat down and looked through a wide range of songs and found one that worked. We waited until we had an editing session with Hannah so we could assure the whole group agreed on it and then added it to the sequence. It sounds good and specific parts of the music fit in really well with the actions in the frame.

Overall, we think our project is going really well and we are satisfied with how it is looking. Although we have a few tweaks we are certain it'll be finished before our given deadline.

We're back from our Chistmas break, and straight into editing again because we have less than a week now to complete our sequence :S

It's looking good but we are have trouble finding music for the first bit, so have spent a lot of our time scanning websites such as freeplaymusic.com

It's Christmas Time!!!!!!!!!! :)

So our blog is now closed for two weeks so we can all have a nice relaxing break

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

...and we will see you in 2009 for lots and lots more blogging!
xx

Music

At the moment Tom and I are searching freeplaymusic.com to find a suitable soundtrack for our opening sequence. We have so far found three songs that seem to fit to mood we are trying to create, once we find a song we enjoy we have created a folder and are saving them on the M-drive. This way we can all sit down and as a team decided on an appropriate soundtrack.
:)

What are you talking about guys? We've already captured more or less everything.
We need to really concentrate on finding a track for the sequence. So we could just all do that.
And editing...
See you tomorow.