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We hope you have as much fun looking through our blog as we have had making it and completing this project :D

Audience feedback

We decided to record some audience feedback for our film in order to see what is good about the sequence and what could be improved.  We organised a time and date for a screening in the media block, using our posters and a facebook group to advertise it.  We had a turnout of over thirty people which suggests that in terms of audience feedback, our advertising could be considered successful.  We allowed our audience first to watch the sequence the whole way through without filling out the questionnaire so that they could fully engage with the sequence atleast once.  We then screened the sequence again, this time asking the audience to fill out the questionnaires.  These were there responses.

As you can see we recieved very positive feedback, from a wide range of the lower end of our target audience although there were some things we could have improved on. Please check our individual blogs for our individual feedback on this.

Gun shot

We wanted a realistic gun shot in our movie to represent action. we asked our technician for advice and he told us to look at Freddiew you tube channel which we found very useful. here we have one of his short clips with special effects, and then a tutorial on making a realistic Muzzle flare.





                  

We ended not using the Muzzle flare but we have taken elements from the tutorial to make a realist gun shot. this was all new to us and very useful into how special effects are used, and for the future.

Colour Grading Research: Underworld Awakening

As we are currently starting to finish the basic edit and focus on the smaller details now, we have decided to do some research into colour grading.

We want to use the colour wheel on premiere to give the film a blue tint, to make it seem colder and therefore more menacing.

We found an example of an action film that has similar blue grading: Underworld Awakening. This film is similar to ours in genre (although it has horror and fantasy elements as well) and the fact that it has a female hero. As you can see in the image and clip below the blue colours makes her character seem harder, tougher and more sleek and professional.

However this clip is slightly too strong in it's colour grading in our opinion and we would be more subtle in our film, as we don't want it to be noticeable, just to influence the audience's impression of Lotus and the events taking place subconsciously.The snapshot below (from the same film) is more illustrative of the type of grading we might use.

Lotus the title

while researching fonts we came across this font:

We liked it as it looked pretty like the flower lotus but quite sharp with the pointed extensions.

while looking through Live type there wasn't a particular animation i liked with the font however i came with the idea of having the extensions (the end) growing . Our technician showed me how I could do it and I ended up making a successful title.

firstly i removed the extensions at the start of the time frame

I removed the tools to reveal the extensions at a different time frame so that the extensions are revealed slowly looking as if they are growing

Poster

We have designed a poster for our film! We have built on the theme of shadows in our film which creates enigma, however it is clear the figure is a female assassin our major selling point.

This poster's appeal will be put to the test when we host our opening sequence premiere in school.

Last Minute Name Change

After teacher feeedback sessions, we decided as a group it was best to change the name of our film, mainly because of the misleading oriental connatations of Lotus. Instead we have decided to name our film "Deadly Shadow." This is beacuse the main motif in our opening sequence is the use of shadows. For instance:
The first thing we see of Lotus is the shadow.
When the guy is killed we see his shadow on the wall.
Her shadow crosses his dead body to get the briefcase.
The shadow theme would also be used in our marketing campaign and the rest of the film.