Above, is the rough edit of our AS media studies project titled 'Fraction' (Not uploaded in HQ due to errors with the site). We have been working on this project for roughly over 2 months now and as a group, we are very pleased with the outcome. Our opening sequence for Fraction was played in front of our teacher and our peers, and we asked them for feedback for our project. We received a little bit of negative criticism but overall, the feedback that we had received was mainly positive.
Our peers described our mise en scene as realistic, conventional, remote, believable and one person even wrote '10/10' in the strengths box! Not one person in the class gave any negative feedback about the location of the opening sequence or the use of props. Our classmates told us that we had used our props well to make the opening sequence look as real as possible, and as a group, we also think that we have managed to capture that sense of realism within the opening sequence through the use of props, costumes and location.
Our cinematography was also described as good and our peers said that we had cleverly used a wide variety of different camera shots to create a sense of realism within the opening sequence. Yet again, we had received no negative feedback for the cinematography. However, our teacher suggested that when the man in the forensic suit is taking pictures, the audience should have an insight into what exactly he is taking pictures of. As a group, we have taken our teachers advice on board and have decided that we will take pictures showing the audience what the man in the forensic suit is taking pictures of, and we will insert them into our opening sequence. We will add a black and white effect to each picture to make it clear to the audience that they are photographs.
Our peers told us that the non diegetic soundtrack that we created using garageband fit in well with the opening sequence, and that it fit in well with the whole thriller genre. One person described the soundtrack as having a 'good flow' and others said that it suited the scenes from the opening sequence. However, our soundtrack did receive a little bit of criticism. Two of our classmates told us that our soundtrack sounded slightly 'repetitive'. As a group, we agreed. We took the criticism on the chin and we decided that we were going to fix up the soundtrack by adding more sounds into the soundtrack using garageband. Our teacher suggested to us that when the distorted male appears, we should insert a high pitch violin sound or something similar to create a chilling atmosphere for the audience at the point. We have taken our teachers advice on board and we will try and find some samples to add to the soundtrack to create a more chilling atmosphere.
When it came to the editing, one of our classmates said that we made a 'good use of time and pace'. Others said that we had a 'really good match on action', we had really 'clean cuts', the opening sequence 'flowed' and it was also described as 'smooth'. Our teacher had also said to us that she really likes our use of transitions at certain points of the opening sequence, for example, where the scene cross dissolves from the distorted male in the confined room to the detective out in the common at the crime scene. As a group, we personally think that we couldn't have done any better with our editing and the time that we put into editing was worth it. Our peers and our teacher did not give us any negative feedback about the editing techniques used in our opening sequence.
One of our classmates described our titles as 'original' which we were very pleased about. Others said that the 'titles fit in perfectly with the movie', the 'titles were well thought out' and that the 'incorporation was good'. However, we did receive some criticism about our titles, which was purely based on the fact that they could not be seen properly due to the colour of them. We received the following criticisms about our titles: 'was not very clear', 'hard to read on the shots (change the colour)', 'harder to see titles at certain points'. These comments were clearly reasonable as when viewing our opening sequence on the big screen, we also found it hard to read the titles, due to the colour contrast between the text and the scenes in the background. Our teacher also told us that we shouldn't use the colour red as it is too cliche and it seems like the kind of colour used in the title sequence of a horror film rather than a thriller. Our teacher also suggested that we take out the titles where the word FRACTION appears with the letters jumbled up as it creates confusion for the audience and it just generally looks messy. As a group, we have agreed to change the colour of the titles from red, to a light grey colour to ensure that the audience can read them properly. However the titles in white were fine. We have also agreed to take up the titles whereby the word FRACTION appears with the letters jumbled up.
Overall, our teachers and our peers were very impressed by our opening sequence and the feedback that we had received was mainly positive. Our classmates went and told other students around the school about our opening sequence and more and more students came to us requesting to see it. Our media teacher said that she would expect us roughly to get around 53 marks out of 60 based on the rough edit, which is an A grade.
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