Music Clarification

During editing we had to choose music to fit our film opening.
The music we chose was from the existing film A Nightmare On Elm Street.
To ensure we can use the music without copyright issues we sent an email to Wes Craven asking if we can use the music.

Film Editing

Final parts of editing for our film opening are being made.
The film opening is around 2.50 mins long.

Evaluation questions

After doing our rough cut and planning for our final cut of our film opening we need to answer questions commonly asked by peers.
There are seven questions that we will answer. these answers are:

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of film openings)

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

7. Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Improvements

We have done a rough cut and obtained some feedback from others of improvements we could make to our film opening.

>The first improvement we could do is introduce a purpose and a hook to the opening so the audience will want to continue watching.
>We could use a variety of different shot lengths, and shorten the film opening to decrease the probability of boredom.
>We need to set the scene properly using establishing shots, and introduce main characters better using close ups.
>We need to include in our final project some film titles and music to create suspense and fill gaps between shots.

Quick Update

Only a few weeks left until we film, and we are currently getting things ready and doing final editing to some features.

Storyboard

Here is the story board that our film opening will follow.
These are all the key shots, without the titles.

Film Title

This is our first appearance of the film title "A Night To Forget" 

I have made this in Photoshop and fireworks using different layers in fireworks and then the blur tool afterwards in Photoshop.