Since our main presentation, we have received more feedback on our products. They were shown to the same Year 12 classes who gave our first feedback on our rough cuts around three days before our final deadline.
We decided to ask for this feedback because we felt after discussing all the feedback we had received that it had been more useful than we perhaps realised. Before our discussion, we would all have said that the feedback pointed out things that we already knew. After it, we felt that it had also given us confidence and made use more aware of how our product appeared to outsiders. So we felt it was worth asking for a final round of feedback from people who already knew our work, mostly to make final decisions as a group.
Based on the comments they wrote for us and handed in, we have made the following changes:
Trailer1. Changing of font of intertitles / credits so they are consistent with the font style of the tagline on our poster. The tagline now appears in the trailer also. This was something we discussed a lot as a group and could not decide on so having the class vote overwhelmingly in favour of the change was helpful.
2. Reference to the novel on which the film is based.
3. Shot of Facebook page on phone used to replace poor quality newspaper shot. (We have always known this shot didn't look professional but the feedback gave us the motivation to change it).
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4. Some changes to sound - drum beat removed and new loop added. Also additional drum beats used to punctuate key moments as here in news report - drum beats create tension and punctuate the moment. Also some changes in order following this news report to take advantage of the added tension so 'run!' swapped with cctv moment as now makes more sense to see Michael running as we feel he is in more danger.
We are also adding these drum beats at other key moments through the trailer.
Poster1. We slightly enlarged the title following feedback:
Magazine Cover1. We created a special edition look for the cover so that we could really embrace the techno theme:
2. This entailed changing film titles to something more genre-specific:
In our main presentation, we discuss the timing of feedback. This very last minute feedback was important to help us pick up on some final details. By this point, you have become so familiar with the work, it is hard to have an objective opinion. Of course, there is a limit to what you can actually change with so little time left, and feedback where extensive filming was required would not have been helpful and would have been quite demoralising. Luckily, all our feedback was limited to small and achievable things, possibly because the Year 12 students are in the same position with their own coursework.
