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Audience Feedback on Rough Cut
After looking at the Rough cut, the audience said they liked the suspense at the end of the title sequence, and finding out "who killed who" and the fact that the end of the film was the title sequence, the audience didn't like the shaky camera angles of the tracking shot and felt the opening sequence could have given off a much clear effect if the camera was smooth. Overall the audience felt that the idea was very inventive and would defianetly capture the audience however if we had better resources the idea could have been more of a success. Here is a video clip with feedback on our rough cut of our title sequence:

Questionnaire

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Post-production

To start off the editing we had to set up a new Adobe Premiere Pro Project and log all of our raw footage, then as a group we set up a word document to log our rushes, we presented this piece of work as a table which consisted of the INT and OUT code, the scene and shot numbers and how many takes this took us with a last column showing which scenes would be used. Underneath is our groups logging rushes table:

Next we had to batch capture, only the footage that we wanted, and create a rough cut of our film before we showed it to the focus group, this meant that the group had to cut the shots so they would fit together and run smothely, this included the continuity issues of the feet because in our project it consists of a lot of running and we needed to make sure the continuity ran smoothly. After a rough cut had been put together and played back to make sure it flowed correctly, we then had to find a soundtrack to play above the music, as a group it took us a reasonably long time to do, because as a group we all had different ideas as to what sort of music we wanted, after spending a lot more time than we originally wanted to picking music, we found a track called Ghostocolypse from an uncopywrite internet site called incomputech.com, which fitted our piece really well. Initially we were going to cut out all the background noise and just have the music and sound affects, but after watching the piece through we felt that we needed to keep some non digetic, because otherwise the piece sounded in some ways 'artificial'. 



As a group we then played the rough draft back through, to make sure it flowed correctly and where the shots had been cut together, the sound matched up to a certain extent. Once this had been completed and the clips had been put together, we then started to edit the sound, making sure all background noise was a lot quieter in contrast to the soundtrack and the sound wasnt too varied. To do this we used markers to highlight the noise that we wanted and putting these at the start and end of the highlighted piece of sound and moving the pitch up and down to the level we needed, we then played the clip we wanted back from a bit early on to make sure the sound flowed, we the carried this on throughout the whole piece.

After we had finished the editng so the opening sequence flowed, we then had to add in the titles, which included the actors names, our production company, the schools production company to show the collaboration, as well as the director, writer etc. After this we gathered a focus group together to view our title sequence and give our group feedback which we needed to act upon for our final opening title sequence.

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Production Report

The filming process took a total of nearly 2 hours, and consisted of the group collecting the equipment, walking down to the location, filming all the scenes and then returning the equipment back to the teacher with the tape we recorded on. The filming process was reasonably easy and quick due to the fact that we practiced how to do the tracking shot and bought all pre production work to the location with us including the shot list to help us remember all the shots we had to shoot and in which order so we didn't miss anything out, however as a group we didn't stick to the shot list because we found perfect opportunities to add in our own shots and we felt the more shots we had in our project the easier it would be when coming to edit, because this way we wouldn't need to re-shoot. However as a group we did also have minor problems as there was a lot of traffic near the end of the school day from parents picking up their children from the primary and secondary school which did mean it was hard to shoot some scenes in the road as we had to let the cars pass. Also we did start shooting quite late due to the fact that we found it difficult to schedule the shooting when both teachers and all of our group were free and when working this out before shooting we didn't take into consideration that one of the teachers was on duty at lunch and couldn't come down to the location on time.


The group, throughout the task have worked well effectively and worked together as a team, during the post production we handled the tasks by splitting the tasks neading to be done and then coming together as a group and improving them to make them better, we started off aiming to do this routine in the production stage and originally set tasks for each other to complete but when coming to the production stage we felt that these tasks weren't suited for that person and we ended up switching roles so our strengths would be shown in the production. 


Once we had looked at the raw unedited footage we had filmed we were pleased with what we had done, however some of the tracking shots started off well but near the end turned to an angle, this was due to the lack of equipment we were given, so as a group we decided that as an alternative the best option was for one of the crew to sit on a skateboard with the camera and two of the other crew members to push and pull him with a piece of rope, before actually filming the piece we practiced this and at the time seemed the best option, but as a group the outcome of the shot wasn't great but was the best option, without the right equipment.


Overall i think the production was a success due to careful planning and learning from our previous mistakes in the preliminary task, this also helped because we had changed groups from the preliminary task we all had different mistakes from the last time, giving us more to be aware of for this product.