Post production part 2

When it came to editing later on in the week there were a few changes that we decided as a group in the narrative and the order. The main one was at the very start of the sequence we showed the tied up hands first and then showed close ups of the container a bit later on, we decided to change this around as we thought revealing that there is someone tied up straight away is quite a shock and kind of gives away the plot instantly. We also changed the order when the radio player starts to skip to show the villains reaction first rather than a close up of the radio.

when creating the tension in our opening we used a diegetic sound effect of Jazz music playing on the radio player, adding a contrapuntal theme to the scene which in a way made it more scary to watch. Also showing the close ups of the weapons at the beginning with the blood on them allowed a sense of worry as why do these weapons all have blood on them. Lastly when the villain comes to choosing a weapon, we show the shot of the weapon in the foreground and the victim in the background foreshadowing that this is meant for him and showing them to the victim is a way to try and see which one the victim would prefer like he's giving him an option of what he wants to be beat with, which creates a creepy tone to the sequence.

I feel like that our target audience would want to keep watching for multiple reasons, one i think the action in this scene with the victim being beaten up, i feel like the audience will want to know the story of this man and what he has done to be here. Another reason i think is showing the victim at the end taking the money with him, as again the audience would want to know his reason behind taking the money with him. Lastly i think the choice of the colour mixed in with a thriller is an interesting take, which has an appeal to the audience watching.

When it came to choosing names for the opening we wanted to include the actors real names so we could show there hard work and let them be known to the audience the same went for when we did the crew names, as there was only four of us in the group we had to come up with a few extra names, for example one actor we called Jonathan Shute which i came up with as this is a person i personally know who was the first person to ever get me into filmmaking, so it felt right to credit him and show how far i've come. Another name I used was Finn Rauh for the music production as my cousin makes music and thought again it would be nice to credit someone close to me. For the others we used mixes of our middle names and random last name like Theo Louvard etc. For the name of our group we came up with the name Crystal house at random and really liked it.

Sound i think out of the whole editing process took the most time to try and prefect, The main issue we faced was after adam was hit on the foot with the hammer the scream was distorted which sadly there wasn't a way that we could fix it but to help the issue we lowered the volume a bit. The only other issue i could think that we had was when it came to making the radio player sart to mess up, aas it took a lot of time to repeat the sound, and make it sound realistic. 

We did include a diegetic soundtrack which the actors are hearing as it makes the scene feel more immersive and adding the reverb onto the music made it more ambient and in the room creating a realistic tone to the audience. We did not need any special effects in our sequence other than one at the end of the sequence when Adam is walking out and the camera exposes to a white screen to make it seem like he hasn't seen daylight in a long time.

Overall i think the finished outcome of our opening sequence looks incredible and i don't think there is much I would have done differently but that's not to say there's room for improvement i do think we could have had a few more nice looking shots like maybe from over adams shoulder looking at Ali. Another thing i think we could have done better was the pictures on the wall as i feel like you can tell they are really young i think if we had pictures of older people it may have looked a bit better. But I think the aesthetic of the scene looks cool and gives a light aspect to the dark realism of the scene taking place.