The document summarizes feedback received on a rough cut of a film and how the filmmakers addressed this feedback in the final piece. Key points include: Positive feedback validated scenes that worked well and required only minor enhancements. Constructive comments identified areas for improvement, such as adding sound effects, speeding up certain scenes, and improving color masking in an eye effect scene. Feedback on the final piece pointed out minor errors that could be addressed with more precision and time spent on effects. Overall, the feedback was used to strengthen weak areas and refine strong elements in finalizing the film.

1. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED
FROM YOUR AUDIENCE
FEEDBACK?
Question 8

2. Rough cut feedback; impact to final piece
Positive Feedback
This type of feedback, told us which
scenes we should keep the same; as our
target audience already liked these
elements, therefore only required final
enhancements rather than extensive
editing for the final product. Moreover,
we were also reassured that we used a
range of shots; so did not need to use
any ‘deleted’ footage for this purpose of
broadening types of shots.
Constructive Comments
Rough cut Final piece
After spending time editing the CCTV scene, the overall length
dropped dramatically; as we had not yet edited the timelapse at the
time of the rough cut.
- Added sounds of
footsteps; however we
would of liked to explore
the art of Foley if we
had more time.
Sped up footage of club scene & removed some shots
from the chemicals (lab) scene.

3. We received many positive comments on our use of
editing, our target audience seemed to highlight the
eye changing colour effect; which meant that it was
worth the time we put into it. We aimed for this scene
to stand out; making our film opening more memorable.
Feedback from final piece

4. In some key frames of the sequence, when
enlarged you can see a slight error, where we have
not adjusted the colour mask during this frame.
However, it is worth noting the level of precision
this type of effect required, as well as the time it
demanded. Furthermore, this was our first time
using special effects to this extent. If we were to
edit this scene now, I’d spend more time on this
sequence and adjust the colour mask for more
frames per second, to make any errors such as id
keep the colour mask at safe distance within the
circumferance of the iris on the key frames; using
precision editing (zoomed in on the iris while editing
and going through the sequence frame by frame.
We were not able to lock onto the eye colour using the
eye dropper tool, as our actress had a darker eye colour;
which caused the eye dropper to be unable to
differentiate between the iris & her makeup.

5. In response to this comment, if we were able to make changes
now, id say that we could move the titles so that they were not so
close to the corners; however, we were following the genre
conventions from Sourcecode; and being close to the corners was
a part of this convention. Furthermore, for their comment of how
they consider the camera to be ‘shaky’, we would apply
’stabilisation’ to any shots they considered to by like this.
When we edited our opening scene from the rough-cut; to reduce the overall length, it
disturbed the previously ‘in sync’ beats of the soundtrack with the ‘match-on-action’ / frame
changes (transitions between shots). To rectify this, we’d need to edit the music through
GarageBand to the length of the shots & transitions specifically to change beats precisely.
The handcuff removal scene was a plot change that we made on the filming day, as our originally
planned scene was considered to be to ‘supernatural’ and broke the genre conventions, so we
opted for a conventional (natural) escape. To prevent this scene seeming to ‘easy’, we could either:
reshoot to make it look like more of a struggle or rewrite then reshoot the scene with more time
planning it.

6. With a keen eye while spotting for continuity errors, you can see that in the first frame of the
CCTV footage, it appears Alice is not wearing the handcuff put around her arm in the previous
scene; however, in the following frame, it appears again on her wrist.
When going through the rough-cut version (before I edited the CCTV scene), I noticed that in
fact, the handcuff has moved up her arm in the first frame, then when she sits up, it has moved
down again; giving the impression it was missing.
To rectify this, I’d either go for,
- A reshoot of this scene: ensuring no shots where the handcuff goes into a blind spot within
jump cuts.
- Or alternatively just removing the first frame; which is far easier as it is not essential to the
scene; moreover, there is also other deleted footage from this scene to replace it with if need
be.