Overall Summary of Feedback

It was important for us to get both positive and negative feedback so that we could better our title sequence.  

To get feedback we posted our title sequence on YouTube where people could comment on the video; overall the comments we got back all praised our film knowledge at the same time they offered some criticisms on areas we could improve. One criticism we received was that when the title 'Seized' appeared it was very fast paced; we took this into consideration and after watching our title sequence back a few times we agreed with this comment therefore we chose to lengthen the time which the title appeared which we believed benefited the title sequence. 

Another way which we gained feedback from our audience is by doing a few screenings to different types of people. Our media teacher offered to do a screening to one of her Media Studies classes where she gave out some of the feedback sheets we made up. A reoccurring answer throughout the feedback sheets was that the music was in some ways annoying to listen to. Taking this into consideration we realized that a possible reason for this was that the audience the title sequence was shown to, were of a much younger age than our original predicted viewing age; therefore they may not have appreciated the effects of the composition on both the pace and emotion of the title sequence. One more issue we found from analysing the feedback sheets was that the genre of the film was being mistaken for a 'Horror' rather than a 'Crime'. Although this mistake could be due to the fact that more is revealed to do with the genre throughout the film rather than within the first few minutes of the opening titles. 

Finally we showed our title sequence to one of our media teachers as we were happy with the final product. Unfortunately we had failed to complete research into the format in which the titles appear in a title sequence. After viewing some more title sequence we had realised the directors name always came at the end of the opening credits. Ourselves -being unexperienced title sequence creators- placed the directors name first in the credits. We decided to change this mistake we had made to make our title sequence more professional in the format which the titles appear. 

Comments we have received on YouTube

So far all the feedback we have received on YouTube after having uploaded our title sequence has been positive and has credited our creative skills which we are very pleased with; we think much of this positive feedback has come as a result of our regular review of the title sequence and finding places where we could improve.

Some of the feedback sheets we got back

From these two feedback sheets we received we found that the genre of the film was being mistaken for a 'Horror' rather than a 'Crime'. Although this mistake could be due to the fact that more is revealed to do with the genre throughout the film rather than within the first few minutes of the opening titles. 

Journal: 09/02/11

In today's lesson we created audience feedback sheets, we managed to get two filled out but we are going to receive more feedback when our title sequence is screened to Year 11 Media Studies students. Apart from preparing the audience feedback sheets we also continued to add to our blogs improving previous posts- this is because the construction section of our title sequence is now completed.

Audience Feedback Sheets

This is the audience feedback sheet Sophie made, we plan to hand these out to people who see our sequence; then we are going to have a look at the comments we get and possibly change some elements on the sequence itself if we think that there is any reoccurring issue that needs to be addressed. 

Screen shots of using Final Cut Pro

The first step of the editing process was to import all the scenes we had shot, to do this we attached the camera and imported all the clips; we made sure any important clips were named so they became easily accessible if we needed to use them. 

Our next step in the editing sequence was putting the clips we needed on a time line, to do this we simply dragged which ever clips we needed onto the timeline (from the previous screen shot where we named all the clips originally).

Now we began cutting the different things we had filmed into smaller chunks so they could all start being arranged in a way which enabled us to continue on and edit them further. 

Throughout the sequence we used fade in's and fade out's, this added a good effect to the title sequence because the filming flows and doesn't look as harsh as it would if the shots were to come straight in after each other.

This is the production logo I designed, as a group we thought this was our best option as it fitted in well with the sequence and was just bold enough for it to be noticed rather than take over the whole screen. The production logo is followed by a title which follows the same colour scheme. 

This is where we started making the text jump to give it a jumbled look. We thought this added depth to our title sequence because it was very deranged like our main character. 

Next we added music to the sequence, myself and Sarah spent a long time searching for a suitable soundtrack that went with the genre of the film- without it being predictable or giving too much away within the first few minutes of the film. As a group we decided on the final choice of music and we thought it worked very well with the narrative; the music itself flowed well with the different climax's in the sequence . 

This is our final title sequence, as a group we are extremely impressed at the final product it reached all of our previous expectations. The music, the setting, the filming and the editing itself all came together at the last stage and made the title sequence look really good. 

Final Typography Choice

This is our final typography choice, we chose this because we thought it resembled our genre and narrative in a way which did not reveal a great deal of information to the audience.  We decided the white typography would be best against the black background because it made the title stand out. The reason for choosing this font was the fact that the lettering itself is not sharp or neat and is slightly decaying, this resembles our main characters state of mind- he is constantly having to deal with issues which are mentally destroying him; therefore the breaking of the white onto the black shows that our main character is slowly falling apart.