VAMPARACTIVE

Audience reaction - Final Cut

For our final cut of the film, we generally received positive feedback from audience on various levels. They agreed that the narrative made sense and that the editing was made appropriate in correspondence to the action. However of course, there were still some issues which the audience raised.

When asked how we could improve our production, the audience raised the following suggestions;

·         “The lighting could be better.”

This was an issue we found difficult to deal with throughout this entire production process, because we followed the vampire convention of filming at night. During filming, we tried our best to film the action under street lights, which would act as our lighting, but even that wasn’t enough when we looked back on the action during the post-production – editing process. So, to deal with this issue we enhanced the screen brightness in the colour correction function of Final Cut Pro. This was successful.

·    “Add music and sound effects to the action to generate a much more convincing atmosphere.”

This was an obvious improvement to be made but because we ran out of time at the time of showing everyone our production, it wasn’t possible. The extension allowed us to finally add some sound effects and soundtrack to our film. This made a massive difference to our production.

·         “Reduce the length of the chase sequence.”

The chase sequence was an exciting and thrilling part of the film for the audience but it did drag on and become repetitive, so looked at the shots that could be sacrificed from the final cut and did what we had to do.

·         “Add close up shots to the characters during the first shot-reverse-shot sequence.”

The conversation sequence at the start of the film only had two types of shots, and this was a negative aspect about that shot-reverse-shot. The audience thought it would be more effective to add in some close ups of each character at some point during the conversation, especially when characters said things of high significance in relation to the coming events. We tried re-filming and adding new shots but when we tried importing these to Final Cut Pro, the SD card turned was corrupt and so we couldn’t make the improvements allocated and therefore were forced to keep on with what we had.