The evaluation for our final horror opening - Inbox(1)

Media Studies - Final Task Evaluation

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Inbox(1)

If you click this link, you will be taken to my groups final horror opening; Inbox(1).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N_uVTVMCCg

Editting - 7th April

Today, we finished our horror opening. We made the changes required from the feedback given to us about our opening. We created a piano piece in garageband to fit into our horror opening, and created a sound bridge using ambiences from the freesound website. We also rearranged our footage and titles to make it more understandable, and we also took out some shots, and entered some new ones. As a group, we are much more pleased with the newer version of our horror opening. We entered the names for our production company (Prestige Elite) and our distribution company (MRH Distributions) at the start of the opening. We created logos for these using photoshop, and we recorded vocal sound for the distribution company. After having completed everything for our horror opening, we added our names to the start of the film as a final touch. We have now finished editting everything together for our horror opening, and it is now complete.

Editting - 5th April

As a group, we showed our horror opening to someone who had no idea about the storyline or plot, to see if it was understandable and clear. However, after having received the feedback for our opening it was clear that changes needed to be made. It seemed our opening was not very understandable and it was often unclear what was going on and who was where etc. Therefore we discussed and decided to change our footage order slightly and we also decided to change the sounds we had previously added. We decided to change the sounds because there was no sound bridge involved and the sounds we used had no continuity at all. It was easier to realise these errors when we received the feedback, because it was not as noticable to us as a group, because we know the storyline and plot ourselves; therefore it was more understandable to us. Now we have this feedback, we can alter our opening to make it clearer for an audience.

Editting - 4th April

Today, we managed to achieve quite a lot of editting. Firstly, we managed to put sound into the whole of our horror opening, and we also managed to finish the opening titles and titles which would appear throughout the opening. We used freesound.org to download copyright free soundtracks, which we used in our 2 minute opening. We tried to make sure that the titles were in appropriate places and in time with the sound affects and music. Although we managed to finish all of the editting and sound, we were not sure as a group if the piece was finished as it still did not have a finished feel to it yet. Our next step will be to show somebody our opening to recieve their opinions and feedback.

Editting - 28th March

In this editting session, we decided to work on titles and transitions between the shots. We added the main titles which would appear at the start of the film including things such as production company, distribution company, and the music creators. We chose to have the transition for the titles as a fade in/fade out dissolve, as this made it look quite spooky when they appeared on screen. For some of the titles, they were shown over the top of the footage, however we included the first ones at the start of the film in their own shot by themselves. We made the lengths of the titles 3 seconds each, however some had to be shortened slightly due to shot changes. We decided to use the production company name of; 'Prestige Elite', because it was the name of our font, which we quite liked. We also decided to name our Distribution company 'MRH Distributions', due to the letters being the first letters of our names in the group. We chose 'Sinister Sounds' for the music company as we thought it sounded like it fit the horror genre well. In our next editting session we will finish the titles and start to add the sound.

Independent Film Company Research

My group decided to do a small amount of research regarding independent film distribution companies. We did this because we were having trouble thinking of a name for our own company. We researched and found names such as; 'Dogwoof' and 'Red Barn'. These names were random which made us realise the name did not have to be something which related to film in any way. We also found a production company name of 'Twisted Pictures', which specialises in the horror genre, having created films such as the 'Saw' series. The final company we came across was a company called 'Brain Damage' who also specialises in the horror film genre. In researching these companies, it made it easier for us to think of company names for production, distribution and sound.