The Game-Evaluation

The Game-Evaluation Part One

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The Game- Evaluation Part Two

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Audience Survey Questions

Once finishing our final version of our opening we created an audience survey. From this audience survey we are hoping to gain some positive feedback. However, hopefully this survey will also show us some area in which we could have improved upon.

Here are the questions in which we have put together?

1. What is your age?
2. Did you enjoy our opening?
3. Why?
4. Did you find our opening engaging?
5. Why?
6. What do you think our target audience is?
7. What genre of thriller would you say this is?
8. Do you feel the font and typography was appropriate to the opening?
9. Why?
10. Did you feel that the music over the title sequence was appropriate to the opening?
11. Why?
12. Do you think this is a traditional thriller film?
13. Would you go watch the full film in the cinema?
14. Do you think the representation of the characters were accurate?
15. If no, Why?

Here is a link to our survey:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEhSZE51NkRjR19wWGQwckRyTEtrSXc6MQ#gid=0

From getting audience feedback will allow for us to see what we could have improved upon and also what we did well. This will allow for us to take this feedback and us in the future when completing a task like this again.

Final version of- The Game

After making all of the improvements listed and from listening to the teachers feedback we have now got an opening which we are proud off. We were also able to complete it before the deadline which meant that we had a little bit of extra time to make any more improvements. This enabled use to adjust our work to make sure that it was to the best of all of our abilities.
From watching our opening I believe we have produced an exciting opening that defiantly has challenged the conventions of a crime thriller.
Below is the final version of The Game:

Second Final Cut- After Improvements

Below is our next cut after the improvements had been completed:


In Wednesdays lessons we showed our teacher this version of our opening. When watching it, it definitely does flow a lot better than what our last cut did.
Here is the feedback we got:

• Flows a lot better
• An extremely pleased with it overall
• Lengthen the title' The Game' for another second so that it can be read.
• Make the alarm in the opening scene come in a little quicker before the actors start running onto the screen as here it started just a little bit before.

These improvements are now going to be made to our opening to make sure that we have produced a high quality opening which is to the best of all of our abilities.

Feedback from Teachers

In yesterdays lesson myelf and Amy watched title sequence. After the improvements from the first cut had been made I am happy with the overall outcome. After watching it we asked our teachers to watch it to see if there was anything else we could do to improve it before our final deadline.
Below is the first final draft of what they was watched:



Here are the comments in which were given to us for what we could do to improve it and also what worked well:

• Take out the pictures at the beginning- Now that we have changed around the order of the sequence the pictures not really link in with the rest of it now.
• Add in more of Daniels ( Cafe Rouge and Chelsea's scenes.- This will allow for more inter-cutting to take place between Chelsea and Daniel
• During the title sequence the titles needs to come on in a different order:- Before the game was at the end of the titles and the actors names were before this. Here is how we should display it:
• Canterbury Productions Presents,
• An AJA Production
• The Game
• The music transition from the titles to the next scene is to slow. It almost sounds as if there should be something more as the music carries on. This needs to be adjusted so that the music fades out quicker.
• From the beginning after the photos to the title sequence it flows well.
• The sound effect  founds out as the character is still running away. This is good as we didn't just stop it as soon as the ran out of the building.
• We feel as if we should adjust the level of voice in the MI5 scene to continur with the continuity throughout. Here as some of this was from a re shoot the tone in her voice is slightly different.
• The varied shots within the MI5 scene was good.

From this feedback it has helped us to realise things that we didn't realise before. When the idea of taking out the images was suggested we first weren't to sure about it but now when watching through the sequence it has become clear that it does not flow like the rest of the sequence does.  This is one area which needs to be sorted. This has allowed for chnges to be made that were storyboarded from the very begginning which we never thought we would change.  From watching it from the first time until now it has become much easier to see the areas in which we could improve upon. Before our final deadline we are going to take these comments into consideration to make sure that we can improve upon it to allow us to produce a good title sequence.

Music

When looking for music we have had some trouble in trying to find a piece of music that would suit our sequence best. When had searched on the Internet to see if we could find something and we also went on Garageband on the macs to see if we could create something that would work better. However we still couldn't find something that would fit in with the sequence.
As we couldn't find a piece of music we asked our teacher if he could play some music that he thinks would be suited. This enabled us to get a better understanding of the music that they would be expecting to here. This then allowed for us to look for some music of the some sort.
After looking on the internet and not being able to find something we looked on our teachers iTunes where we found a piece of music called Moby- Extreme Ways. This piece of music suits our title sequence and also suit the genre of our opening.

Below is think to the music in which we have used.






As this is copyright music we can only use 20 seconds of it.

Reshoot- 22/03/2012

Today we reshoot our MI5 scene. In this reshoot we were focusing on getting some close ups of our female actor. This was decided upon from the feedback that we got back from our teachers and also once we had looked back over the footage we realised where we could improve it after hearing the comments from the teachers.
However we came across some difficulties with the time we wanted to reshoot and also the lighting within the room. When we shot this scene before the room that we used was available. Although when going back today we found out that this room was not and we had to use another room. This wasn't so much of a big issue as we were focusing on close ups and not the tracking shots. We were able to use this room though as we just needed to have the whiteboard in the background so that we could have the picture of our male character projected onto that.
Another problem that we faced was with the lighting in this room. To minimise the amount of light coming in the room we shut the blinds likewise with the other room we had used previously. However when shutting the blinds only one of them would actually shut fully. There was also light coming in from the top of the left hand corner in the room where there are some windows at the top of the ceiling. We could not do anything about these. However to get around most of th problem we covered all windows with black paper. This did effect the lighting in our footage as it was a bright day, we couldn't have done anything to produce the impact of this. When watching this footage once we had filmed it we still thought that it was too bright. This is when we decided that we would need to edit this in the software of Premiere Pro.

Having said all of this, we did actually get all of the footage that we wanted and we were also able to get some extra shots within the time that we had just incase some of the shots can not be used due to light conditions. Overall, I do believe that this was a successful reshoot as we were able to get the footage that we needed and hopefully now we will not need to reshoot anything else from this scene after we have watched the footage back.