Feedback

Today we were given feedback, a form of audience response, on what was good and how to improve what wasn't as good. We heard pretty much what we were expecting to hear. Firstly, the sequence is too long; it's meant to be around 02.00 and ours was closer to 03.55. Not good really. We felt that this was where our opening was weakest, in its structure, and so we made use of the cross-fade on Final Cut to edit out a lot of footage and make it look like time is passing more quickly. It actually works better like this, giving it a much faster pace and a more stylistic, noir feeling (Film noir is, after all, a style, not a genre. A style that has formed it's own sub-group of films perhaps). Secondly, we were told to remove some of the dark saturation from some frames, as they needed to be a little bit lighter. This was fairly simple and required a few minutes in the editing suite, using the colour corrector to change the black's and white's in the video.