Audience Feedback

After having watched our trailer, we asked our audience some questions about our product.. We intend to use this information to make refining touches so we can have an official final trailer that we know for a fact caters to our audience. 

Audience Reactions

We got some people to watch our trailer and give their feedback throughout the viewing. This gives us an idea of how effective our trailer is in getting a reaction from our audience.

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 1 (Part B)

Blooper Reel

This is some of the bloopers and out-takes we had whilst filming for our trailer. It shows that you don't always get the shot you want the first...or second....or third time, but at least you can enjoy yourself at the same time. 

PENANCE - THE OFFICIAL TRAILER

This is the final, completed version of our trailer.

Social Media Feedback

This is the audience feedback from 3 social media networks found to be most popular these days. We have recieved great feedback about the official trailer. There were so many comments on the great editing and it's partnership with the music which is constant throughout the feedback we've been getting. This comes to show a great result to what we have produced as a trailer.

Evaluation Question 1 (Part A)

Audience Feedback for Trailer Final Draft

This is a page full of screenshots from whatsapp feedback on our trailer's first draft. So far there were strong complimentary comments and a few flaws like not viewing the suspects in detail e.g. the pictures on the map, or a clip of an actor looking like they were about to laugh. Although these are flaws we unfortunately cannot improve on majorly as that would need additional filming. However as an overall result, we have gained great results on out final draft so far which means there would not be much changes done. There were great reactions of the music, the scenes, the plot and performances of the actors which we are grateful to hear about. This feedback very helpful to learn any improvements we may need and what we have done well in. So far, with this feedback we have done well

Sound Editing

When listening to the dialogue in our draft trailer, we noticed a significant amount of white noise/hiss that affected the quality of the speech heard. This not only made it harder for the person watching to understand what was being said, but it negatively impacted the professionalism of our trailer, so in order to solve this issue we used Adobe Audition to reduce the white noise.

To begin with, we had to import the file that we wanted to edit the audio of. This was an easy process.

After selecting "Import > File", we just had to find the file. We did this by searching the name of it so we didn't have to spend unnecessary time looking through folders. When we found it, we just selected it and clicked "Open".

When the file has been imported, the sound-wave of the audio is shown, as can be seen above. The height of the sound-waves indicate the volume of the audio at that point. If you look closely at the image shown here, you can see that even at points that are meant to be silent, you can still see a small amount of amplitude - this is the white noise we wanted to reduce.

After importing the audio, the whole track had to be selected, so that both the dialogue and all the "silence" that we were trying to clean up would be included when the changes were made.

The next step clicking "Effects > Noise Reduction / Restoration > "Hiss Reduction (process)". This is effect we used to refine the audio.

This is the window that opens after selecting the Hiss Reduction effect. By adjusting the levels of the noise floor and how much you want to reduce the hiss by, you can work out where the optimum balance between quality of audio and reduction of white noise. We listened back to the audio repeatedly during this process to find the point of hiss reduction we were happy with.

These are the levels we decided on. As you can see from the sound-wave, the parts of the audio that are meant to be silent have less amplitude than they initially did, showing that the white noise has been reduced.

The final step was simply saving the file. Then we put the edited audio back into the trailer, and we used it as our final audio.

Final Draft Trailer

This is the final draft version of the trailer that we will make. Any changes that happen after this will be small but may just add final details/refinements to our product, for example after making this trailer we as a group noticed that the Universal logo was outdated. 

Whatsapp Group Chat

As part of being able to communicate with each other at home, we used whatsapp as a group chat. It was a very useful app, since we could send images, videos and voice notes. In these cases of the screenshots we are asking cedric to upload some after-effects video file on the google drive in order to view it or to have it saved and ready to use for use on the main desktop mac. The second screenshot is of us checking where we are for a meet-up for filming later in the day. The last screenshot is of us communicating to an absent member, Amber, showing her an update of the recent trailer. 

Google Drive

As part of keeping all our files and accessible to both school and home laptops or desktops we used google drive as our portable hard drive, any day and anywhere. We had to use two accounts, hydeproductions15 and hydeproductions1502 since the first account's memory ended up being full due to the amount of film footage we had. The second account helped keep hold of extra footage, music, after-effects inter-titles and introduction. All members of the film crew had full access to both accounts.

Thankfully enough this also provided us a gmail account and a youtube account in addition when signing up to google overall. 

Penance Trailer - Draft Scenes

As we're now working through the post-production stage of the film trailer 'Penance', we decided to post the film trailer so far. There are scenes that may be cut out from the trailer later on but nonetheless, this is how the trailer is looking at this point in time.

We are only really at the beginning stages of editing the trailer so there may be some parts with no sound and/or no visual, because we're still deciding on what footage could be used to connect the scenes featured here.

Distortion Effects on Intertitles

This is a step by step account of how we made the distortion effect in Adobe After Effects. The main things you need for this is the font of your text (If it's not already downloaded) and a Screen Glitch loop, (which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEFcfZvz8yY).

Once we downloaded the necessary font and screen glitch, we went on to After effects to prepare to import our downloads.

We typed the text ("PENANCE") and then added the screen glitch layer on top of the text. When this has been done you then make the screen glitch layer invisible so then we are left with just the title.

After this you then create a new adjustment layer copy of the screen glitch layer.

After this you then select the effect you want, since we wanted distortion you go to distort and select 'Displacement Map'.

Once selected, you go to the setting on the right and change the 1st setting from adjustment layer to the glitch screen.




This is the difference, it changes the image from this (above) to this (below)

After this, on the settings on the left hand side, you can select how much you want the image/text to distort by. The higher the number the more violent the distortion is.

And finally, on the adjustment layer, you can shorten or extend the length of the distortion. Also by duplicating the layer (ctrl +c OR cmd +d) you can make the image/text distort several times and stop at certain sections too.

That is how we distorted our intertitles.

Vlog 11 - Office Interaction

This is the scene where Detective Lewis presents Detective Carter with the case files on the murders, and Carter then notices blood on Lewis' hand.

Vlog 10 - Suspect Chase/Harassment Scene

We filmed this scene on top of Queen's Market in Upton Park. This vlog shows part of the scene where the two Detectives capture the person they were in pursuit of, and also a confrontation they have after leaving a location they were investigating.

Vlog 9 - Victim Chase Scene

This is the vlog from when we filmed the victim chase scene. The murderer is chasing the victim down an alleyway while carrying a machete as the weapon of choice.