Class Feedback

After finishing the editing of our film opening, we decided to show it the class for feedback and possible aspects to improve that we may not have been aware of. Sharing our film opening with the class for the first time highlighted to us how opinions vary heavily from person to person regarding the editing. Sophie questioned the quite jumpy nature of the film, which we had intentionally placed emphasis on, whereas Alisha said that she liked the straight cuts between scenes and locations. Abbie questioned Helin being at the party then outside in the next sequence however the shots are not continuous. Similarly, the glitch sequence at the party is followed by a full body shot of the character running out the flat but there is in fact time between the two occasions . Within the party, my character is never tracked to the door or leaving so this signifies the time difference with the following shot. A key piece of feedback came from Yasmin regarding the quality of the follied sound onto the black screen, the only dialogue in the opening. The shot prior to the black screen is outside whereas the sound was in fact recorded inside which she said she could tell by the background noise or lack of. Will we re record the sound outside and re edit it in as we had previously overlooked sound quality. 

Overall, the ambiguity and suspense created in the opening appears to be effective and we also gained useful critiques to encorporate as they may have gone unnoticed otherwise. Hopefully we will be able to show the film to the class again closer to the deadline to fine tune any small details.