Evaluation of Marshlands opening.

This is my link to the evaluation of the the thriller Marshlands.
My evaluation

Overall opening to our thriller: The Marshlands

Editing

We began editing on the laptop, we began by putting all the videos together in which we then cropped, added effects and matched all the videos up with the time. we added effects such as cross dissolve and lightening and darkening the videos. We also added a after effect of the title. We put the titles on last where we believed was appropriate places to put  them. After we was happy with our video we shown it to other students in which they gave us pointers to improve and correct things. 

Green Screen

Here is our first practice on green screen, we decided to try new technology's when we first did the preliminary piece so we had a wide range of media to help us gain knowledge.

Audience feedback

Here we have a photo of 2 students of our typical age range we chose to look at our video and see what they enjoyed and what they thought we could have done better.

When asked what they thought of our thriller this was their response:

'There is digetic sound running throughout the openingand the music fits in with the genre and the setting. The voice over that is over the opening makes it sound intimidating to the audience and the wording links carefully to the genre. Throughout the piece there is a variety of different shots which is good as you understand there is someone watching the characters.The iconography is good, the camping clothes, woods and tents. The only thing i would say to improve is the lighting at the end of the thriller, it darkens quickly.'

This was helpful for us as we got a understanding of other peoples first impressions of our thrillers, we wanted to know if they would get the overall story and if they felt the same airiness of what they get when seeing a thriller in the cinemas.

Filming

                 

    Day 2 of filming!

I took some snapshots today of seeing everyone working the camera and the tripod, We all took part in seeing which camera angles we preferred and so that everyone had a chance to work the camera. 

Everyone having turns with the tripod and the camera meant that we all gained skills and would all be able to use these equipment again. On this day we got most of our filming done so the timing and lighting will all be in order of going from light to dark, showing the illusion of the friends spending the night on the fields.

Risk Assessment

Here is a risk assessment sheet in which Liam filled out as part of the group