Q3. At every stage of development what feedback did you receive ?

At every stage of our planning for our film we received feedback that helped us be able to learn and improve our developmental ideas for each process. during pre production, We had to pitch our film idea we created from our colour we was given ( which was red) to our class we received feedback on how we were going to show certain themes within our film and how we going to develop the characters. some of the questions asked was how our theme colour red was going to be ahown in our storyline, we learnt we had to include ideas which related to this and we went away and drew up a mind map of all the themes which related to the colour red and then included in our storyline how we could show this for example we symbolised passion through the relationship between Johnny and Marie and also showed revenge through the murder the main character Alfie carries out on the other characters.During our feedback we was also reminded how our characters would develop throughout our story, we learnt that all successful films or stories always contain a characters development or background story, we then went away and added more of a background story towards Alfie’s character, he is not seen until the end but he develops through the story as a jealous boyfriend who then lets his obsession and anger cause him to seek revenge. Nearer the ending of the story he becomes remorseful and regrets his action. His character builds up throughout the story.In our pitch we had not fully explained how we would show the audience how Alfie's character would find out about the the secret love fling. We went away and thought of a way we could show this without making the film seem to simple, we came up with including a series of flashbacks during the middle of the film we will show everything from Alfie’s point of view,which will allow the audience to see when he saw the other two characters together,how he decided what to do and how he carried out the fire. We will show this through fast paced cut shots to give the audience a glimpse into how it all happened.
Another question that was asked was is there enough dialogue between the characters to show scene progressing and action taking place to improve our film we decided that the story does’t have to include to much dialogue , but whiles Marie and Johnny are in the science lab there will be dialogue to let audience know what is taking place and how scene progresses.
The next stage of our pre- production was our script, we had to make many changes towards the script before it became finalised,we received feedback on our script which caused us to make changes four times.The first feedback we received was that there was too much dialogue and not enough visual included , we therefore had to cut down and exclude some of our dialogue and include more action into the script.To help us with cutting down the dialogue out of scene 4 as well we carried out research into different short films to see how they used camera movement to show the action taking place in the scene , after this research we decided to just keep playing around with where we needed to keep significant dialogue in which scenes where it was needed. We achieved this in our 3rd draft of our script where was became finally happy with the amount of dialogue and action included. After receiving the next bit of feedback on our script we decided we would remove the voice over we was going to use in scene 3 and replace it with a opening shot of our main character Alfie sitting on a bench reading a newspaper which included the updated news story of the action which took place in the scene. This seemed more approiate to use as it would create suspense and made use of a different kind of prop which smartly helped audience interact further with the film.
our next bit of feedback we received was on our world of film mood board, we received this feedback from those in our target audience so this was very useful to help us learn and improve our ideas, to help create our mood board we used many celebrity images and used a lot of images which didn't display the key themes within our story , we were told that when our moodbaord was viewed the images and typography didn't explain our story fully , we therefore went away and started a new mood board which included more images which represented our main character, such as dark images that symbolised his family background or troubled past for example ( bottle of alcohol.
Our final stage of pre-production was our storyboarding ,this had to be changed two or three times , because we needed to include cutaway shots.
The next bit of feedback which was important for us to include to help develop our film ,was the post-production stage this was when we came to editing ,we had to over a period of time put a rough cut of our shots onto our timeline and receive feedback from teachers and other students on the process of our film and what could be improved on our film. Some of the feedback we received was that first of all the music we used at beginning of the first scene should be used to fade out quietly when dialogue between characters starts and keep on playing the music in the background. To achieve this we had to include time frames at certain points in the sound track of where we wanted it to become quieter.Another change we had to make was when johnny characters was walking towards the classroom door in scene 1,do not use too many extra shots , we therefore had to go back through out selection of rushes and include two good shots of him making his journey form the table towards the door which ended up making the scene look much more cleaner and straightforward.
During the flashback in scene 3, we had to get rid of the panning shot from feet upwards of Alfie character on the staircase, because it took too long to reveal. his
Nearer the end of the film extend last few shots in scene 5, so there is constant flow so it shows the character Alfie like he is constantly thinking at the end of film.We made these changes by overlapping different shots we had from scene 5 and adding and additive dissolve into one another to create that illusion of time was passing by this added more effect into the movie.Whiles editing our film we was told that we should not include scene 4 into the film because the dialogue was not entirely good in those shots and scene 3 already told the story of the flashbacks and represent the relationship between the characters, it also showed how over time the mian charcter character had been watching the other two characters and what hsi motivation was for his actions.
When we researched into the right music to pick out and use for our film , we looked at research into other films which matched with our genre of film and saw that it was important to include music that helped build up tension this is what we did during scene 2 where we extended the sound track we used for much longer.
Our final bit of feedback on our editing of our film , was that the flashback scene we included was i really good , effects used add realism to it and music added as well addes tension.After we completed all these changes we then moved on to producing our film posters, review and title sequences , feedback was given which then helped us recreate ideas that helped us develop them into our final products.
After completing our film and both ancilliary tasks we showed our film to the rest of the students in our class and they gave us positive feedback on our film , they thought flashback scene was very interesting and the use of effects added realism to the scene.