Post Production

From looking back at my audience feedback is that one of my biggest problems is the fact that the camera changed from vertical to horizontal halfway through the film and so it looked unprofessional and not very exciting to watch. I also found that the audience watching it did not really learn anything about the characters that are in the film trailer, which left them confused when watching the opening film. Another problem that I had received from the feedback is that the lighting did not necessarily fit the genre of the film as although it was based on horror, the lighting could have been darker and so makes the audience more aware of the genre and also makes it more effective to watch for the audience. Some of the other main points of feedback that I had received for the film is that there was not enough footage in the opening film and there were quite a few titles considering it was an opening two minutes. This gave off the impression that it was more of a film trailer that I had made at AS rather than the opening of a film which was not the task that was given. When editing the film I had found that I had edited quite a lot out as it was no good to use due to the camera being shaky in many areas, however as I did not record enough footage in the first place to add into the opening film, I had to use titles instead which gave the impression of a trailer rather than an opening. Also when cutting the film, I did not use many fade tools and so the end of most of the clips were quite harsh and didn’t blend as well. This effected the outcome of the project overall as it was all over the place and did not really work to my advantage. Because of this, my final project looked messy, unorganized and unprofessional which is not how I imagined it to be at all.

I have definitely taken on board the comments from the feedback and used them towards my film trailer as I found that they were useful and valid points. In my A2 film trailer I have filmed much more clips than I need and so I have enough to cut and fade in and out from. We even went back and re-filmed some clips and so we were sure that we had enough to work with. This definitely benefited us in this way as I didn’t realised how much I would actually have cut, fade and replace sections to fit in with the music and to also make it exciting to watch as well as meeting the codes and conventions of genre of film that I am doing. At A2, one of our biggest challenges were lighting as we had to re-record some footage, however this turned out well in the end as we adjusted the lighting but also used editing tools and transitions to make our film trailer fit into the needs of a horror genre.  In our film trailer, we gave more information about the girl as a little girl and her background life and then her as a grown up person and so the audience can get a slight better understanding of the characters that were involved in the film trailer. Another thing that I have improved in my A2 work is the use of a camera that has a lot better quality and o it makes the footage clear but also picks up all the sound that we record and so the audience can hear the diegetic sound that we included in the trailer.