28/3/2012 - Feedback During Our Production

We took advantage of the blog by receiving comments as feedback from our production and giving feedback to other groups. This communication between groups allowed us to evaluate each piece of work posted on the blog,  receive pros and cons from an audience, allowing us to decide whether to make the adjustment and amend the piece of work if necessary.

By allowing feedback through the blog; using the comments, we were also opening our production to a wider audience (as the blog is accessible through the Internet worldwide). This again gave us ways to improve our work.

We also presented our ideas continuously throughout our production so we were constantly reminded who our audience were and what ideas they thought were good or bad. This allowed us to make amendments to the point where everyone fully enjoyed the short film and felt the ancillary tasks were appealing and understandable.

By posting the short film on YouTube as well we opened up our audience to a variety of people, giving us the opportunity to receive feedback through comments. This is more accessible than Blogger as well because you are constantly suggested videos and anybody could come across our video through links.

9/1/2012 - Magazine Review Feedback

Feedback on Magazine Review

1. Include an interview
2. Some sentences wern't structured well
3. Picture taglines are too vague
4. Pictures are effective and show the most important scenes of the short film
5. Sounds like an essay format
6. Star ratings are cleverly used showing the conventions of a film
7. Magazine looks professional
8. Remove what the characters dress like
9. The audience disliked the fact that the behind the scenes section included us talking about the lack of time
10. The names were confusing because a few times we included the actor's name in brackets whilst other times we incuded the character's name in brackets

9/1/2012 - Short Film Feedback

Feedback on Short Film

1. Make the font capital letters
2. Start goes out of focus for a bit however we simply do not have the time to re-film
3. Charlotte began to slow down as if she was expecting to get assaulted - perhaps cut the last part
4. Bathroom scene is very effect, a lot of the audience like the blurred vision and brilliant acting from Charlotte
5. Uncomfortable watching however this proves it is effective and realistic
6. Good quality DVD playback
7. Video was fluent and professional
8. Have the shot focused on the ring straight after the fade to black transition - remove the shot of Charlotte being thrown to the ground

7/10/2011 - Feedback Report

After showing our second draft of our film in front of a small audience we received a lot of positive feedback. The audience felt the rape assault was a lot better and stronger when reaching out to the audience's emotion. They enjoyed the blurred screen when the rape was taking place as well as the new dip to black screen with the cries of Lily and the viscous voice of the offender are still heard. This is quite emotional and has shown a massive improvement with the assault compared to before.

The audience also like the bathroom scene and the blurred out focus view of Lily's vision looking at the shower. This gives the impression that she is crying and ill. The backing track also appealed to the audience whilst they stated it adds to the emotion and makes the short story very strong, revealing the true genre and meaning of the film.

We will be creating the final draft shortly whilst fixing the flash of green that appears half way through the film from exporting. We will also adjust the unsteady movement in some shots caused from the stabilization tool in Final Cut Pro.

19/9/2011 - Feedback Report

After showing the draft of our production to our class audience we were able to gather feedback that should allow us to finalize our short film; some of the points raised were:

Corrections

• Record Chris and Charlotte during the assault and import it on to a dip to black transition after to lengthen out and allow the audience to understand it is a sexual assault.
• Remove the rain effect across the camera lens as it makes the short story seem more like a recording in the plot.

Continuity Issues

• Charlotte is seen without tights at the start of the short film and with by the end when she arrives home the next morning.

Other Suggestions

• Perhaps zoom in on Lily's (Charlotte) face as she looks up sitting in front of the mirror crying (this will allow a connection between her and the audience)

10/5/2011 - Presenting Our Pitch

We have presented our pitch in front of a small audience while being filmed (seen from the video previously posted) and we explained what our filmwas about, the audience we are aiming for, our research films and the general information about the film including the genre, directors etc.

Our pitch lasted for approximately 3 minutes as we took it in turns to explain each part. Chris began by explaining the plot in depth so the audience would clearly understand it. Mark then went over the general information and the research films and covered the scene that would influence our ideas, including shots and camera techniques. Luke finally went over the audience explaining who would most likely watch our film and how we would aim for a young audience when marketing.

The pitch was quite fluent and we did cover most areas of the film we are going to create, giving the audience a full understanding of what to expect. Chris was full of ideas and elaborated on these when we were questioned after the pitch, explaining all the camera shots, angles and ideas we had.

We had a lot of feedback from our pitch showing the good and bad points that we will consider in the future of post production:

• Consider that it is a touchy subject choice to cover (sexually assault)
• Charlotte who is playing Lily Road will have to put on a good performance, make sure she is aware what is happening
• Courageous idea that many think will work well
• Do not video long shots of the woman being sexually assaulted but more short takes giving of the idea that this is happening
• Interact with her life earlier on at the beginning of the movie so we can see the drastic change she under takes 

One of the main ideas that we do seriously need to consider is the concept of the assault. Many of the audience raised the awareness that Charlotte must fully understand what is being done and the area has to be warned that filming is taking place. We explained that people will be standing either end of the tunnel where we will be filming and we will warn the neighbours and pedestrians around. We will get consent of Charlotte if we have any trouble with police.

After saying our thoughts of how to avoid any issues and going over our film plot and ideas, the audience agreed and felt the film is a very good choice.