Final Product Opening Sequence

Here is the opening sequence we showed our class and took feedback on how to improve it to create our final cut of the product.

The only negative feedback we got on the sequence was that the font was too big however we showed to more member of the target audience who said they preferred it this size instead of any smaller and that the side did not detract from the overall opening sequence.

The only other thing we had suggested to us to do was to take the "and" out of the credit shown above. We completed this and now have our actual final product...

Here is our final opening sequence. Using the feedback we maintained from our target audience we sharpened up our editing, making the cuts smoother. We then added in black ink splodges over all of the text as suggested by a member of the feedback group. We also added the title which was selected by the audience and added this in instead of the title we had on our second cut. I am very proud of this piece of work and believe it is the best we could have done.

Storyboard Analysis

Storyboard from rebecky69

Bibliography for research and planning

Bibliography for research and planning

Name of Source	Hyperlink	What information was used	What post we used it on
(WEBSITE) Vimeo – The film before the Film	http://vimeo.com/60964497	The history of opening credits and how they have changed over time	The History of Opening Credits
(WEBSITE) Wikipedia	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opening_credits	Information on the history of opening credits	The History of Opening Credits
(WEBSITE) BBFC	http://www.bbfc.co.uk/	Requirements for each of the BBFC age ratings	BBFC Rating Analysis
(PDF) Market Overview by National Lottery	Already had it	Markey overview- who buys what and where do they buy it from	Market Overview SECONDARY RESEARCH
(Book) AS Media Studies Revision Guide	-	Theories of narrative	Theories of Narrative
(WEBSITE) Wikipedia	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_score	Film scores within film	History/ Elements of Film Scores

Analysis of Questionnaire - Audience Feedback on Opening Sequence

Here is my analysis on the feedback we got on our questionnaire about the film opening:

The Filled Out Questionnaires - Audience Feedback on Opening Sequence

I asked 16 students of different ages within the band of 14 to 17 and of different genders and ethnicity to watch our opening sequence. I then gave them the questionnaire we created for them to fill out. Here are the filled out questionnaires:

Mapping of Our Opening Sequence

Here is the mapping of our title sequence, showing all the credits which appear and what time they appear, they are based on the three title sequence which I looked at for part of my research and planning, especially Man of Steal which is a film I believe would be around the same budget of our own, if it were real, and contains similar elements such as CGI.
We selected the names which appeared on the titles by using a random name selector as well as the names of some of our friends. Overall there are 25 different credits which appear which is about the average for a movie of our genre.

Questionnaire - Audience Feedback on Opening Sequence

     After asking members of our target audience to watch our second cut of our opening sequence we asked them them to fill our a questionnaire. We chose a questionnaire as our form of feedback as it is quick and simple to fill out and does not require the audience to spend too much time giving feedback.

     We asked 8 questions which would help us to improve our product as well as make it more audience friendly. Here is an example of our questionnaire:

QUESTION 1

This question gives us an overview of what the audience thinks of the product as a whole, if they enjoyed it before we break it down into its different sections. Giving them simple numbers to circle will hopefully make it quick to fill out so the audience does not get bored while filling it out and gives correct feedback.

QUESTION 2

The second question focuses on the non-diegetic music within the opening sequence. If the audience does not like the score for the opening sequence I can go back and change parts of it to make it more effective. The lay out of this question is again simple and therefore allows us to understand the given feedback easily.

QUESTION 3

The third question is all about the editing, as this is only a second cut some of the editing is not on the dot and so from this we can see if the audience picks up on it and where I should tidy up the editing to make the overall sequence run far smoother. 

QUESTION 4

This question is focusing on the text on screen, making sure it does not detract overall from the entire sequence and the audience likes the fonts chosen and that they do not feel it detracts too much from the overall image. If they have any suggestions on the fonts and text on screen they can write about in in the feedback section at the bottom of the page (question 8).

QUESTION 5

Question 5 is a simple YES or NO question, by this point in the survey the audience may be getting bored of the same lay out of question and this is very simple to answer. Hopefully the audience will understand the opening sequence, however, if they do not we will have to reassess and possibly redo parts of our product. 

QUESTION 6

This question is again very simple, the aim of an opening sequence is to make the audience want to carry on watching the movie. If they do not the sequence is ineffective and can heavily effect viewership. We need to make sure our own sequence is enjoyable and makes our audience want to carry on watching. 

QUESTION 7

Question 7 allows the audience to help pick the font for our title, which we have still to do. This will make sure the title is attractive for our audience not just something we think is effective.

QUESTION 8

The final question merely allows the audience to give any written feedback or ideas to improve our product, we will take all of these into account and do any which are possible.