The above blog title is inspired by Saul Bass's "Psycho" title opening.


Thursday 19 March 2009

"Ch-ch-changes"



After the class crit we noticed a small lack of continuity within our sequence. This was easilly fixed, here is the Re-Edit on youtube. Unfortunatly though YouTube completely brought down the qaulity of the piece. I belive we have now smoothed over any minor imperfections on the piece and it requires no real further work.

Tuesday 10 March 2009

Quick Re-edit

During the class crit once pointed out on the big screen we noticed a minor break in the continuity of the stair scene. It appeared that i had left my bag in the corner of the stairway, in the nesxt shot, bag gone. I took straight to final cut and managed to zoom in to the clip far enough to cut the bag off the side of the fram, then cropped the top and bottom of the frame to widescreen and good as new! I was worried that i may reduce the qaulity of the shot by enlarging it so much, but it ended up making no real visible difference.




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Audience

So now we've made it, whos going to watch it!


(Image: A nice Cliche of the cinematic experience)
It is important for us to know our Target Audience and who potnetially we would sell our film to. I need to find out the age range of my audience, what other films they enjoy of the similair genre and what not.
On monday the class performed a group crit of our Opening shorts and production process so far. There was lots of good feedback and posotive, constructive criticism being givin to everyones title sequences. I believe that our opening went down well as we recieved some great comments, some of which will help with my investigationof audience. One student said that the opening was very "adult", which i was rather pleased about as the film, in its intentions, was to be a quite sad and moving drama targeted at more of a mature audience whom would have the ability to understand and relate with the characters and situations better. But this does'nt mean that we don't want our film to appeal to a much wider audience.
As the film deals with issues of class and wealth we want the film to be relevant in the time of an economic crisis, i believe we have met this intention.