Evaluation of our film 'Seized'

My name is Emma Tracy. I am the one on the right of the screen. My candidate number is 3371.

Audience feedback

We decided to do a proper survey for our audience feedback and did it on Survey Monkey. These were our results...

Our completed film 'Seized'

Editing - Final Day

Today was our deadline and we still had a few things to clean up in our 2 minute opening. We focused mainly on sound and making sure it was in the right place in the sequence. We also changed our opening logo and I edited it on Adobe Photoshop to black and white to make it have a better effect. After spending all day finalising our film and making sure everything was in the right place at the right time, we just had one more thing to do. This was changing the aspect ratio to make the film have the black lines running across the top and bottom of the whole sequence to make it look more like a proffessional film. This took us quite a while as we had to do it for each clip individualy and so it took at least 30 minutes to do. Once all of this was done, our 2 minute opening of a film called Seized was complete.

Editing - day 6

On day 6 we still had a few things to do in our editing process. We needed to clear up the editing together of the shots but we also did things such as colour correction or the whole of the film, our production logo for the beginning and finding eerie music to put throughout the whole of the 2 minutes. We managed to get the colour correction, and production logo into the sequence and we managed to find the eerie music for the 2 minutes. This finalised our 6th day.

Editing - Day 4 and 5

Days 4 and 5 were used primarily for titles, sounds and effects. The sounds didn't take too long as we just needed to import them and put them in the right place on the time line. This was the same story for any effects that we added in. However, the titles took a day and half of the next day as they were tricky to do and we had to practise how to do them. We decided to do our names in 'typewriter' as it fitted in with the mobile phone theme as it looked like someone was texted the names on the screen. This took us a while to figure out but once we got going it was just about patience. We also decided that it would be a good idea to put in a few facts about phones and the Internet at the beginning. This would get people thinking and engaging in the film already even at 10 seconds into it. Finally we thought about how the title of our film would come into it and what font it would be in. We thought it should come in on its own on a black background in big, white, bold text so it stood out even more. This worked really effectively and it makes a bold statement.

Editing - Day 2 and 3

We needed to make the footage that we had already put in place look a lot smoother and make sure that the shots fitted perfectly from one into the next. We spent quite a while in this process as we wanted it to look professional and not scruffy. Whilst doing this we changed around the order of some of the shots and played around a bit as to what goes where. This concluded day 3.