Final Cut (UPDATED)

This is my final cut of my winter submission of Not a Chance
Enjoy :)

New Soundtrack (UPDATED)

As part of my feedback i was told that it could be a good idea to add a second soundtrack to my opening.
I decided to do some audience tests which in the end told me that my core audience don't really want another soundtrack but i still thought I'd try and see if i could find any premade tracks that could fit with my film.

I looked on Freeplay Music. Free play music is a website where you can buy or get pre made tracks from all across the genres which are copy right free.

On a search menu i filled in the following options.

i want the feeling of the song to be cinematic, with it being easy listening, acoustic guitars and piano instruments with a medium tempo (because my other soundtrack was medium tempo)

I found this song, though it doesn't fit my search very well and the title suggests themes that are not in my opening i believe it could possibly be added to my opening

and below is the track uploaded via Divshare.



This is another song i found.

This track is quite short and I'm not too sure if it will work but they is the use of violins in this and i think it may work with the hair flicking around part.

Once again the track has been uploaded to Divshare




In the end i added the song Home cooking, it starts the first time you see the girl in the school.

Audience Tests (UPDATED)

Twice during the project i have showed my target audience (16-25's) my rough cuts and tested them to see if they noticed anything or what they thought on a specific part of the rough cut.
I have run these tests through Youtube because it is the best way to distribute my rough cut through a large amount of the target audience.

The first test i did was to see if the audience noticed any continuity in the lighting outside in my film. The problem is that when i filmed, because i filmed around 4 i filmed shots in daytime and some in nighttime and i wasn't too sure if my audience noticed this.

I posted this video on youtube and asked my friends afterwards to comment on if they noticed any changes in lighting.





This was the response

My second test was to see what i should do with my soundtrack.
I had feedback telling me to add a second soundtrack in for the second half of the video but someone told me that the current soundtrack was very good so i decided to ask my target audience what they thought.

This is the video i showed and below is a screenshot of the responce.

IMovie Timeline (UPDATED)

This is just a quick post explaining my film opening from the timeline view on IMovie.

This is the timeline.



They are three parts to it.

1. The top part of the timeline shows all the different clips that i have arranged into the timeline, when i clip play all these clips are played in order of them on the timeline.
2. The second line is where my sound clips of talking and sound effects such as the shower and alarm are.
3. The bottom line is where my soundtrack is.

Rough Cut 4 with Feedback (UPDATED)

My fourth rough cut for my film Not a Chance, they is feedback below the video. The feedback was given in a screening on my rough cut in front of 8 other media studies, Unfortunatly i wasn't able to record the screening so instead i have just typed up the feedback.



Feedback

• A few cases where shots can STILL be cut down, such as when boy closes door, during shower part etc. You need to cut out 15seconds of footage.
• Make the slow motion part stand out more with a change in brightness.
• Make edwin slide down the locker in slow motion
• Change the outside title part around to make more intresting
• Check out continuity on the headphones (checked and was none)
• Staring is spelt Starring (can't change this now)

Rough Cut 3 with Feedback (UPDATED)

This is my 3rd rough cut.
From here i only intend on making small changes such as cutting shots and adding already filmed shots due to time constraints.



The feedback i got from this, i've collected from a few new medias,
1. Youtube - I uploaded the video on there and gained a few comments.
2. Facebook - i embedded it from youtube and got a few comments on the post as well as through a online chat service provided by Facebook.

I have screenshotted the comments below as well as copied and pasted a conversation i had regarding feedback.

The Purple are my comments and the Blue is the person who gave me feedback

okie

keep the shower noise going

the bit where im whipping my hair- you cant tell that its a dream

just looks like im randomly doing it

maybe like lighten the settings or sorta change the frame its in (not sure if you can do it) like maybe fade some of the edges out

umm you'd best ask a media student cos im not v good at it

22:34

Yeah, if i fade in or out it may work better

you're doing better then everyone else at the moment

22:34

like make it more obvious that it's not actually happening

and it goes a bit fast into normal so i got a bit like whuuut

i like the switches between me and edwin better in this one

looks more flowing

and at the end you cant really hear nick but idk if you can do anything

22:35

yeahh the ending a bit wierd, im gunna fiddle about with that

22:38

its mroe flowing on this one. but i like the edwin staying still and those things suddenly popping up

it doesnt look as good on this one :s

22:38

yeahh i know what you mean

22:39

the alarms louder at the beginning then fades down

is it meant to do that?

22:41

No, its because the alarm was playing on the title from the last one, i just need it to match to the current alarm

22:41

aahh right :)

yeah maybe make the sound a little less crackly? cos you can tell when the scene changes with sound sometimes

22:43

Yeahh thats something i can't change very well, its due to the cameraa

22:43

oh well. crack it in the evaluation

you know the idea of music is like it's being played in the film?

should it stop when the ipod goes? but it still sounds good through the vid :)

22:46

i liked at first the idea of it being on the ipods but i didnt like the shots and didnt think it worked too well, a problem though now is that the song is too short for the film

22:47

oh noes. maybe then fade it out after the hair whip. could be seen as like the music stops when edwin snaps back into reality??

or can you edit like part of the guitar into the end?

Evidence of drafting "Titles" (UPDATED)

One issue that arose during the filming and editing process was how to use titles in my opening. I wanted titles to be the main focus point in the video. I started off with a idea of having 6 titles in my film with original ideas.

1. Directed By Callum Moreman - On the back of a tee shirt
2. Edited by Jacob Bollen - On a scrunched up piece of paper
3. Music By Cat & James - Fridge magnets
4. Staring Edwin Heavisides - On Ipod
5. and Anna Kadja - Bus Pass
6. Not a Chance - Speech bubble made out of paper.

Unfortunately i didn't first off film these and only stuck with the tee shirt idea and the speech bubble idea because i didn't have much time but in the end i re shot the scenes with my original ideas and it looked a hundred times better. I put together a video showing the titles at the start of my opening compared with them before i changed them.