Final Draft of my Horror Film Opening

YouTube Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B3YI6TVaMc

I had to link my final draft of my horror film onto Blogger through YouTube as i had problems with uploading my video as an avi file through Blogger's uploading process. 

Overall, i think that my final horror film opening is quite successful in conveying the horror genre. After doing the research and planning for the production of the film is was easier to film and edit the actual footage. I think that planning was the key to this task and makes it more successful.

Changes Made

• Sorted out the sound (removed the crackling)
• Held the titles for a longer time
• Added a "Photographed by.." title
• I decided to remove the static noise from the beginning of my horror film opening as it sounded too much like raw audio, which often causes crackling

Deadline

Final Deadline for AS Media Studies Coursework: Blog & Film:

29th March 2011

Results from Questionnaire: Graph

This graph shows what peopel would rate my film  out of 5, 1 for terrible and 5 for excellent.

Results from Questionnaire

Overall, 9 people filled out my questionnaires. 8 males and 1 female, all 9 were from year 12.

• 80% agreed the music did increase the tension of the horror film opening.
• 80% agreed the story wasn't easy to follow.
• 80% agreed there was a noticeable contrast between light and dark.
• 100% agreed that it was obvious that the film was a horror.
• 100% agreed the characters were appropriate to the horror genre.
• 100% agreed the title was appropriate for my horror film opening.
• 55% would watch the film to the end.
• Most agreed that the credits were placed very well but weren't on the screen long enough.
• All said to sort out the crackling noise at the beginning of the film.
• Some said to make the storyline easier to follow.
• A few said that the music should be changed.

Questionnaire

We were required to get feedback from people on how we could improve our film. Although my group edited seperately we came up with a questionnaire together. We came up with these questions :

1. Does the music increase the tension?
2. Is the story easy to follow?
3. Is the contrast noticeable between light and dark atmosphere?
4. Does the start of the film make it clear it is going to be a horror film?
5. What do you think about the way the credits have been placed?
6. What would you rate our film out of 5?
7. Were the characters appropriate to horror?
8. Is our title appropriate to our film?
9. Would you want to watch the end of our film?
10. What changes can we make?

We also asked if they are male or female and what year they are in at school to see if age or gender affects the opinion of someone.

First Draft Horror Film Opening

This is the first draft of my horror film opening, some of the sound at the beginning needs to be turned down as there is a crackling noise where i didn't do an audio check. The titles need to be made longer as they flash too quickly across the screen but other than that i'm extremely pleased with my horror film opening.