Changes

Through out the making of our opening Fern and I had constantly made changes, some were very minor yet some were major. The changes we made had always improved our opening, it also developed our skills of using the technologies and tutorials, especially compared to when we produced our Preliminary task. Through the few videos that I have uploaded on here, you will be able to see clearly some of the adaptions that I have made. I felt it was easy to complete the opening and then review back the entire opening to notice what needed to improve. I had taken advise from both teachers and peers in my media class, the advise that I received encouraged me to make changes, as it was more important for the audience to be lured by the opening than Fern and I. Reviewing back my preliminary task had also encouraged me to make changes as it was clear of the failures that I had made in that, therefore I didn't want to make the same lapses in my two minute opening.
Once Fern and I had uploaded all of our footage onto Imovie we had realised that the contrasts of colours varied as we had filmed at different times in the day. This had became a major problem as the contrasts didn't match, leaving the footage to be unrelevant to one another.



The image above is how the clock scenes were before we had altered the contrast, although it looks clear and bright this wasn't the style we were hoping for. It looked very out of constrast in comparison to the rest of our footage and as for this reason we knew that this was something that had to be changed. Once I had selected a colour which I felt was appropriate for the content and thriller genre, I had then applied it to every piece of footage so that all of the scenes matched, as well as making the scenes match it evidentely created a dull tone which can relate to the negativitiy that is occuring in the scenes.
Fern and I had continueously trimmed pieces of footage, we had done this as we felt some parts were unnesscary and would leave the audience to be bored, and that was something that we were obviously trying to avoid. We had also trimmed some parts as it was signifcant that we hadn't gone over the two minute duration, therefore some parts had to be trimmed otherwise we wouldn't of achieved on one of the main purposes.
The first time we had finalised our opening we hadn't included many non diagetic sound effects. Fortunately Fern and I were aware that this was a huge weakness as it made our opening look slightly unrealistic and boring. For this reason we had searched on garage band all the differnet sound effects that were provided, and chose ones that we felt would be appropriate for the footage that we have. We manly looked at sound effects that would be used in the thriller genre, this was so it would add to the pressure that was being built up. The non diagetic sounds that we added, had evidentely improved our film, I personally think it makes the audience feel more involved, whereas before all we had was the ticking clock. We had done this as we wanted to exagerate the danger that was gradually buiding up and will soon will develop into a tradgedy occurance. I feel that adding more non diagetic sound affects made the audience specifically focus. It was as if the little noises sounded much louder due to the tension that was being built up. Including more non diagetic sounds were a major improvement to not only this opening but also from when I had created my premilianry task, as I hadn't incorporated any in that. I feel that including more non diagetic sounds helped the audience get a precise conclusion of what genre we achieved.