Final Cut

Title Order

Melissa took the initiative to look at the order of titles as we are nearly at the stage to incorporate them into our Thriller opening. She looked various title sequences and noted down the order in which the titles appeared. These were her findings;

• __________ Presents
• A __________ Production
• (Actors name)
• (Actors name)
• Film Title
• Music by _________
• Editing by _________
• Produced by ________
• Written by ________
• Directed by ________

She looked at the film 'Panic Room' and found that the title of the film wasn't at the end, which is what we would have expected by nearer the middle. I think Melissa did a good thing by looking back over the order of titles again as it will help us with our final product. 

Evaluation Questions

At the moment I have started the evaluation progress in order to meet my deadline and I have been looking over the evaluation questions;

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learn in the progression from it to the full product?

These are the questions we need to address when completing my evaluation. By the looks of things it is clear there is a lot I need to do in order to get the best possible mark for the evaluation. At this stage I am only taking notes for what I could include in each answer but by the end of this week, hopefully I will be able to bulk them out and get started on my powerpoint.

Questionnaire

We are now at the point where we are looking back over the evaluation questions, therefore we have put together a questionnaire which will help us on audience feedback. As a group we will put it on each of our social network sites, along with the final product.


This is the first draft of the questions we have created;

1) From the opening sequence, does it make you want to watch the rest of the film?
2) Does the opening sequence make sense to you?
3) Do the camera angles work and do they create realism?
4) Are the transition smooth?
5) Is the non-diegetic score work?
6) Does it have thriller elements within the opening?
7) Is the storyline presented well?
8) Are the props in the opening realistic?
9) Did the characters work well within the opening sequence?
10) Do you think the locations are suitable?
11) Are the titles easy to read and do they last for long enough?

This is just the first idea's we had of the questionnaire we will be sure to expand and think of better ways to ask. Already we think that people who aren't into media might not necessarily know what some of it means so we will have to adjust them for everyone to understand. This feed back will help us when completing our evaluation because we will need to know how to improve and if the opening sequence worked as a whole.