Communication outside of school

Throughout the months of preparing and planning our title sequence we have communicated outside school as a group using a Facebook chat. This has helped us a lot as we did our group analysis on it and also planned the dates which are on our production plan on it.

The complete Voiceover

This is the voiceover that used to be on the title sequence, I like the voiceover as a whole and i'm disappointed that it doesn't fit well with the title sequence as a whole. I think it sounds professional because we recorded it in the music studio in school so it was clear and easy to edit. Christian edited the voiceover on Logic Pro on a MAC to create a mysterious feel to the speech, it was also slowed down to fit more into the title sequence and to space out. The speech was also cut so the two characters took turns saying a part of the script instead of all at once like it was recorded.

I think this was a successful piece of work but our title sequence soundtrack 'Dangerous Knowledge' was more effective without voiceover over the top.

Reshooting

Due to the lack of time we had, we decided to go to the science tech room and pick up some science like objects that a Doctor may use and filmed in a science classroom due to the lack of time we have to get our coursework altogether. Despite filming in school, I think the image we got from filming in a science classroom looked better than what we could have made look professional outside school. In total we took 7 clips that were successful but when putting the title sequence together it made the length of it 10 seconds longer which made us more comfortable with the length as we learnt that the minimum time is 1.30 minutes and we had 1.36 minutes.

We decided to place our footage at the beginning of the title sequence before the text comes on screen to show the audience the role of one of the main characters before the plot starts being shown. In the 10 seconds we see a pan of the room he is in, showing he's in intelligent and holding equipment and then shown a clip of him putting gloves on and another squeezing liquid out a injection needle like object.

I think this reshoot has made our title sequence more successful and shows Christian's character more clearly that he's a doctor or gives the audience the hint that Christian plays a medical and more older character. 

Class Feedback

In class we showed the other students our title sequence and received coursework from other people in the lesson and the teacher. I think our feedback has helped me a lot and everyone's ideas were supportive. We handed out feedback sheets and gave them to the class to fill out and these were our results.

Overall from the lesson, we decided to change some things in our title sequence because of this feedback. We decided to take out the voiceover and it seemed too contrasting to the title sequence and the atmosphere in the sequence that we was trying to achieve. Secondly, we realised that we didn't give the Doctor enough footage to show that he actually is one, so we reshooted to get some clips of Christian behaving more like the role he's supposed to be.