Rough Cut

We showed the opening of our film to our audience in order to receive feedback which will help us to improve on our.
Firstly, we talked about our logos shown at the beginning. Our first logo's music stopped playing therefore this made the logo seem like it lasted longer than it did and it did not quite fit the horror theme and to the audience seemed like sci-fy. We are going to make a new logo that will fit the horror genre for a company that would typically distribute a horror film.  Our second logo however incorporated the horror theme with the tense music and flashing images however the ending of the music on it was a bit abrupt so therefore i need to fade it out.

We then went on to view the beginning of our film which was establishing shots of the woods. The viewers felt as if the ambiance sound made them feel tense as the sounds got louder as the film progressed and with the bird sounds made it feel more realistic as if you were there. With the camera moving around established the setting and where the film was taking place and made them feel uncomfortable.
We also discussed our titles which began to appear in the beginning, the audience liked how they flashed in between shots without disrupting anything that was going on. The colours of our titles were red writing on a black background which fitted the horror genre as they felt red communicated danger or blood.
The only problem with our ambiance sounds was that it cut straight away and went into music so there was no fade there where the songs blended together so make it flow.

The audience watched further into our film where our first character comes into the shots and different music played. From it they can establish that there is a man running from something or someone however they do not know who or what that is yet.
The audience felt as if the hand held shot of him running puts it into perspective as you are seeing it from his point of view. However, there is a problem in this viewing where there is a jump-cut because he falls and then there is a cut and then there is another shot of him lying on the floor. The audience also talks about the music known as contrapuntal music where the music contrasts what is actually happening which they felt added to the creepiness.

The masked ones are then introduced and the audience said the cinematography done portrays them to be very powerful as the camera tilts up as if coming from his point of view. The representation of the masked ones come across as mysterious as they are wearing masks which hides their identity. however, a problem with the cinematography was when the man looked up to the masked ones it didn't match the eye line therefore could've been lower or tilted. Another improvement would be to have the masked ones in the background of the shot of him running away. Performance wise it would've been clever to get him looking back before the shot of the masked ones.

Finally, we watched the rest of the film which contained soundless shots. The audience felt as if this distanced them from what was going on however we followed horror conventions where music is played over shots with no other sounds like Insidious.