My final cut

Final Changes

After getting the feedback I knew exactly what I needed to do. I found that the feedback helped me. I went about making the changes that I needed to. I undid quite a lot of the editing, for example there was a page curl. My feedback told me that this detracted from the professionalism, so I deleted it. I also changed the titling. Ive had quite a lot of trouble with colour and font of titling. Also some of the feedback I received said that my opening looked a little bit like a trailer, trying to amend this  I put the 'Dear Diary' on top of some of the image, this helped it to look less like a trailer. Also I added in some more titles. All this helped me to make my opening look a lot more professional. 

Audience Feedback on Rough Cut.

In class we had a showing of all the rough cuts that had been completed. Luckily my rough cut was pretty much done, so I was willing to show it. 
Once I had got my 11 feedback sheets back I was very happy with all my comments.
8 out of the 11 gave me a Level 4 ( 48-60 marks) and the remaining 3 gave me a Level 3 (36-47 marks).  
Some of the good comments I got was:
"very moving" 
"very believably put together"
"wow, its really good. Very poetic" 
"overall very interesting, great shots used and makes me want to carry on watching it" 


Some of the criticism:
"Little noise in the sound" 
"opening is a little unclear, but the useful visual helps to get marks up"
"page in the corner detracts from professionalism". 


I am extremely grateful to the people that gave me constructive criticism because it now gives me an idea of how I can pull up my marks ever so slightly. 

Final Editing.

After I'd finished filming and uploading the footage onto Primier Pro, I need to think about where the appropriate moments were to put in the new footage. Luckily I quickly found my favourite clips and cut them down to manageable sizes. I found that one of the clips worked incredibly well and it was just down to luck. 
I had a few problems with my audio, the poem narration kept cutting up when I moved things, so that took quite a lot of extra time just ensuring that it was all in order. However I needed to be extremely pedantic to get the best results possible. I found that for some reason some of the audio was louder than other bits, so i had to keep cutting it and adjusting, which was fairly time consuming. 
After showing Miss my (what I thought was ) finished work, she gave me a few more ideas. She told me that to create a better effect I should merge each clip together. I tried it and it actually worked really well. It made the whole thing run a lot smoother. 
Also, I had only put in about 3 or 4 credits in my opening. She told me that because of the nature of opening, it made it look more like a trailer. I listened to her advice and began to add in more credits. I also thought that by putting the name of the film 'Dear Diary' a the end of my two minute opening this also made it look like a advert. I moved my title a little further forward to remedy this.
When adding my titles in, I found it incredibly hard to find a colour that was visible. I wanted to stick to pastel colours however in the majority of scenes I wasnt able to, because they didnt show up. I tried to switch all the titling to black, however in some cases even this didn't show up. It was going to have to be a long process of trial and error.