Feedback on First Screening

After the first screening my feedback tending to be quite positive where I was ticking a lot of boxes. In fact on one the only box I didn’t tick was ‘images are lit and exposed correctly’ and I was encouraged to play about with colouring in post-production.

Some of the other points people made included:

• Length needs to be reduced to five minutes
• Sound levels could be tweaked
• The shot at the end of the montage is blurred
• Consider loosing the ending or joke as it could be taken as an anti-climax
• Titles at the end could be faded out
• Food sequence looks out of place
• Background noise too loud

My plan of action therefore is as follows:

• I always intended to cut down the length and with that I can cut out some of the bits that people felt didn’t work.
• I shall adjust the volume levels relative to each other then lower the level as a whole to ensure there is no crackling.
• I intend to cut the montage down considerably to save time and the girls shots are amongst those that may be cut
• I will try ending the film in several different places and ask opinions from the cast before making a decision
• I will save the titles separately then cut them up and fade them neatly into one another and re-apply the music
• I will cutting the food sequence differently to make it less clunky
• I will turn down the background noise in any scenes it seems to be intruding in particular the climax