Prezi Feedback

When promoting my Prezi presentation I got some very crucial feedback for instance one of the students named Gabriella had told me and the rest of my team that, we had created an excellent story line because majority of horror films create storylines with drunk couples and then someone getting killed especially how the killer is someone who you least expects.

I believe that Kristal gave good information that I believe I did not focus on very much we was deciding that we would pretend to be drunk because we are coming from a party however although she said it was a good presentation how would we be able to show the drunkenness within the scene even though we might be able to act drunk will the rest of the cast that we want to include be able to act drunk and play the part we need them to. She said this because it would could come off as a comedy instead of a horror and tension and suspense we want to build will not be there. I thought this was good feedback because if we never heard that I don't believe that we would have noticed and we would of got low marks.

Another student had said that the presentation was okay however it seemed to her and a few others that to much of the film was in the introduction and because it's the introduction will we actually be having anything else to make it seem that way and so we decided that the boy who is one of the main characters would go around killing everyone who gets on his nerves but each death would be more gruesome than the next one. Everyone agreed this would be a great idea.

Chantelle had said the same thing as Ashley however she changed a part of it but because it can be filmed within in 30 seconds what are we going to include to make it more interesting. So she suggested that we show a short clip of us in a bedroom having the party and showing the girlfriend pissing off her boyfriend giving him a reason to go around killing her and everyone else then wipe to everyone going home through Clapham Common park at night then the rest of the scene we had created on our own.

We found that all these comments were very useful and productive because it would help influence our introduction to making it a better piece so we could earn a higher grade.

Joanna had said that we should think of a better ending so that the killer wouldn't get suspected she said that we should make the boyfriend go to the group of friends and say he is walking his girlfriend home because she is too drunk but then he kills her and tells everyone he doesn't know what happened because he dropped her to the bottom of the road but had to leave because his mum said he needed to come home, we have decided to include this as well because we thought it would be very interesting to see what the audience would think and the effect it would have on them.

When we had got feedback from the pupils in the class our teacher pointed something out that we had completely forgot. When the boyfriend kills the girl he uses a knife and because we are of a certain age how would we do that without getting caught or arrested so we said we would go to the party shop in Clapham Junction and buy a fake one then only take it out and use it when needed.

In my own personal opinion I think I will be taking into consideration to what every body said because I think it can help our group. Although when in class I did have a few ideas I wanted to include for example instead of having dialect I thought we could have music so like we jump straight into the party with loud party music and then it slowly starts to fade into horror music that build suspense then gets louder and louder closer to the death, only because we don't know how professional the cast might be also they might not be able to get the right tone compared to others however it was only and idea and I would personally like to run it past my cast first.

I do want to say thank you to all members in my class for giving me good feedback which will definitely be helping my group with the assignment.

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Preliminary Task

When I was introduced into the Preliminary task my teacher had assigned for me. I was set off into a small set of 3, so that one person would be behind the camera and the other two in-front. My group was given a word that we chose out of a hat we then had to base our short clip around our word, the word I was given was 'fear', so we as a team decided that one girl would have schizophrenia and the inner person inside her would make her kill herself due to bulling and sad thoughts etc..

1. Storyboarding:

I have learnt a lot from storyboarding, I have been able to progress in doing rough sketches, when knowing what to do for our scene. When storyboarding it helps me to plan out exactly what type of shots I wanted, what props I would need and where they would be positioned in the shot. I think storyboarding actually help me plan all my ideas into the scenes it needed to be in to create the short film. When doing the storyboard it is helping you a lot, to figure out where things are going what is going to be done, the camera angle and in which order things would be happen. It makes it so much easier for when your getting ready to record because you know exactly what is going to happen and what needs to be done. On top of that I have learnt that storyboarding helps save a lot of time. Giving you more time to edit.

2. Filming:

From filming I have been able to learn how to have the camera positioned at a certain angle to have the effect we wanted to create for the audience, I have also been able to see where things should be such as props, positing of a character etc... this I believe can help me see what I done well and where exactly I would need to improve for the next time I create a short film/clip such as this. The tripod we used to stabilise the camera really help my group and I to do certain shot type such as a high angle shot. Also when it came to editing we was able to do all the shot types that were required of us. when recording we was very limited as we didn't have a lot of places and space to move around so we was very restricted, however we tried to use this to our advantage. We struggled at first but we have to learn and progress from it to help us the second time. When recording you do have to make sure you have a lot of space however depending on the situation you can use this to your advantage. I have learnt that using a tripod is for the best went recording as you don't want it to be shaky if you hand record especially if it not the affect you trying to create. Without the tripod a steady shot is hard to make.

3. Editing (in the process of doing the task):

When all of the above was completed we had to use a program called 'Final Cut Pro' by using this I was able to edit my entire film deleting unnecessary clips that were not needed and then shortening clips that I thought would have a great affect that I wanted to create towards my final cut. All these things I was able to learn. When I had finished deleting and keeping certain clips I put them in an order I thought made sense then that was my short film. Furthermore was the most consuming out of all of above, we made a lot of mistakes when first recording we didn't include a lot of camera angles and so editing the first attempt took up a lot of time to make it look successful, so what we had to do was re-record and include the right amount of camera angles in the right places so it followed nicely. This made editing the second attempt so much easier than the first. From this I gathered and learnt that you have to be able to time yourself properly or you will struggle and that editing is the one you spend most of your time on to make sure everything is successful and where it needs to be .

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