Feedback

We showed our finnished version of the opening to some students in our class and asked them to give us some feedback, and some constructive criticism where neccessary. The students we showed made these points about our opening:

• The narrative is unclear.

We agreed with this, and knew that this would be a problem after editing. We took all of the shots thinking that when they were put together they would make much more sense than they actually did, this matter was also not helped by the fact that there were certain shots in the animatic that for unforseen reasons we could not film in the time we had. But if we had shot them, they may have helped distinguish certain aspects of our story.

• There is a continuity error when the photograph is lit on fire inside, and then thrown on a fire outside.

Again this problem arose whilst we were filming, in that we couldnt get the lighter to work outside so had to make the decision that we would light it inside and then re light it outside on the main fire then film it being thrown in. We tried our best to make it as unobvious it was two different locations as possible but certain things are noticabley different.

To avoid these problems next time we would have taken much more time to film the entire thing, possibly over the course of a few days rather than leaving the filming as late as we did and only having one day to film. This way there would be more chance of us having the weather neccessary for certain parts, and we would also have had much more chance of filming shots we didnt have time for that would have helped our narrative.

I would also like to apologise on the lateness of uploading our finnished opening. But as we have had trouble with the soundtrack and with uploading in general it has taken much longer than expected, it should be up by the end of friday though.