In this post I will be talking about my groups rough cut and presenting a video of the feedback we received.
This is the rough cut of our film that was presented to the class.
Feedback
While the other group gathered feedback by having us write down what we thought on a whiteboard and recording our voices, our group filmed our target audience and had them write on whiteboards and say their feedback. This is the result.
Through this feedback we can see that the meaning of our film wasn't coming across to our audience and that it was possibly the sequence that was the problem. Mostly it was small things that were the problem, like rustling of blankets after they've stopped moving, other than that the biggest problem is the sequence.
Re-shoots and re-edits
After we gathered our feedback we were given another week to make improvements to our film. that included re-shooting our film and re-editiing it.
Our group personally didn't have to re-shoot anything because it was said that most of the problems were with the storyline and sequence and small things like the soundtrack carrying on when it didn't need to.
Some examples of things we had to re-edit are the fact that in one scene when she's getting out of bed the blankets keep rustling when they are no longer moving, so the soundtrack for that had to be cut shorter, also it was mentioned that there was too much foley where it wasn't needed, like footsteps that weren't needed.
Another problem we had was that the soundtrack was too loud and had to be lowered so it was more subtle.
We also had to cut a scene about two or three seconds shorter on the train platform because it looked like she was being directed when to start walking, which she was, but the shot was too long and it showed it.
Another re-edit that had to be done was dubbing the actors voices, there was a problem with the dialogue and the fact that we couldn't hear it very well because of the wind.
One of the biggest problems was the sequence of events, the storyline wasn't coming across to our audience and the fact that we had to describe it to them wasn't exactly professional, we changed this by adding a narrative to our film, which was the fact that our protagonist was narrating the events of her life as it was playing, we also switched the sequences so that they followed pretty much one after another and made more sense.
Those are the re-shoots and re-edits that we had to do for our film, I found that the feedback really helped get our film to it's best appearance.
In the next post I will be exhibiting our final cut
