Coursework Research

PAPILLON // AS Media Film Opening Coursework - Final Cut

March 14, 2017


This is the final cut of our coursework and there are quite a few things that changed after the rough cut. The most important thing we needed to change was to get the time down to just 2 minutes. Due to an inconvenience of deleting the rough cut from premiere pro, we had to start editing the video from the beginning which made it possible to be more restricted with the footage. We shortened the opening clips showing bits of the house from 29sec to 12sec and got rid of the black slides between the clips. We then tried to cut out unnecessary bits out of the conversation and soon got down to 2:08. 
The video needed a bit of colour correction to make it look more airy and to fit the old house and the location. We put an effect of an old broken tv on top of the scene of the moving horse and looked for a fitting sound effect to create a mysterious vibe. The created distortion at the end of the opening scene is done by putting the same footage twice on top of each other with one of them slightly moved to the right, and a greenish filter on top, which makes it look more mysterious. 
We then searched for some old music to cover the scenes that don't have any dialogue, used two different typewriter fonts for the credits and used the same font for the title at the end.

Coursework Research

PAPILLON // Audience Feedback

February 06, 2017

We got ten Year 12’s to come into our lesson and watch the finished cut of our video. We had written a set of 4 questions for them to answer based on their opinions of our video. 
The questions we used were:

Do you understand the storyline?

8 people understood the storyline and 2 people said that they didn’t understand the storyline.

Would you want to continue watching if it were a whole film?

All ten respondents answered yes to this question.

What did you like about the film opening?

6 of our respondents said that they enjoyed our film opening because it was intriguing and made you want to find out more about what’s going to happen. A few also said that they enjoyed the mysterious feel that it has to it. 2 of our respondents also mentioned that they liked our use of different camera angles and the editing, especially at the end.

What did you dislike about the film opening? 

The main thing that was said we could improve on was that our audio was quite quiet and they sometimes struggled to hear what the characters were saying. Five of our respondents said this was an issue for them and the other five said that they didn’t dislike anything.