Jack's Audience Testing

To test the impact our film had on the audience I created a set of questions and sent them out via Facebook to a list of people on my contacts list. Here are the questions I asked:

1. What genre does this film belong to?
2. How could you tell this?
3. Who where the main character/s in the film?
4. What stereotype did they fall into?
5. How could you tell this?
6. What is the plotline of the sequence?
7. Did the locations fit the film?
8. Did the music fit the film?
9. Would you watch the rest of the film and why?

Here are the answers I got back:

As you can see from the results of the questionnaire I sent out, all of the people knew the film was set in the thriller genre and they enjoyed it enough to want to know more. The enigma we set at the end of our opening sequence also proved successful as most of the people who completed the questionnaire wanted to know what happened to Nathan as he went into the dark. 

Although most of the people I sent the questionnaire out to where below our target audiences age, we still got them interested and entertained by the opening sequence, this audience also understood our plotline too; this is good because it shows we made a media product that is popular in a wide age band. 

Some people commented on the music and how it added to the atmosphere and feel of the film which is good because it shows I developed and created a piece of music which fits in well with the genre and film. 

Overall this shows my group created a good opening sequence which did well with audiences and got them involved to want more.

Nathan's Audience Testing

To find out what effect our film had on the audience, I asked 10 people a set list of questions. The type of person will vary from close friends to partial strangers.

I used facebook, skype + a chat room me and a few friends use to gain these answers.

Here are my questions:

Questionnaire

What genre was the film?


How could you tell?


Who was the main character?


Who were the characters in the film?


What is happening in the film? Is it clear?


What did you find interesting?


Was it too fast? Too slow? Or was it just right?


Does the music work well with the film?


Would you carry on watching the whole film and why?

Here are the results I got:

Final Movie!!

Here is our final product.

Final Title Sequence

I have taken notes on what a good title consists of and created a still title for our project. In the final movie we will fade it in and fade it out. Here is the final product (title)

Final Music Piece For Our Opening Sequence

Because we couldn't find a piece of music which fitted our film, both in time and style we decided to create our own with the college's music composition software. I watched the film a few times to get the timings right for when I needed to build up tension, I also took note of how long our titles would be and planned some music for that.

Here is the piece of music I created, however it is slightly different in the actual film because of transitions and small edits altering the time. I had to take a small section from the beginning out and place it near the end in order for the build up at the kidnapping to happen, however this has actually benefited us because it now sounds a bit better when the tiles appear.

Here is a photo of me at work

Title research

Part of my job in the group is to create a title for the end of our opening sequence.

To do this I will be using a program called 'Adobe After Effects' This program is better suited for what we want for a title as a group as it gives us different abilities to make and shape our title. We can't create this in iMovie or Final cut express as they do not possess such features like that of After Effects.

Here are some examples of different titles made in After Effects: