End Sequence reviews

Things that worked:

The 180 degree spin around me and Jack when we had guns pointed at each others head worked well and the class agreed. They said the sound effect we used for that particular shot was successful too.

Ben's parkour shots were good and build a sense there was a rush to get somewhere or something. The group thought that this worked well.

When I hit Jack around the head with a gun, with the sound effect in place made it work well as it was all timed well and looked realistic.

The music throughout our end sequence worked good as it enhanced it overall dramatically.

Group members said that the pace of the editing was successful, which would reflect on the building of the tension.

Areas of improvement

The teacher said he was expecting more in our end sequence. We had planned to do so but due to bad weather Ben was unable to create the shots as planned because doing parkour in the bad weather could result in a serious injury.

It was suggested the music was a little loud when we had dialogue, which we should take into consideration as it could interfere with the speech, making it hard for the audience to understand what's going on.

A member of the class suggested Ben's introduction could have been more creative, rather than a simple text message then him running in. He said we could have zoomed out or something. Which we should have, although it is an end sequence so Ben would have been properly introduced earlier on in the film.

The shot we had with some bad language made the film lose the plot according to someone. I agree with this partly, I don't think it looked great as a close up shot it seemed out of place to me.

The characters costumes were not planned well, we were told this also they should have been more planned. I agree with this as I was not in costume, Jack had a suit and Ben had casual parkour clothes on. I didn't own a jacket of some kind and it would have been too much hassle and money for a few shots.

The wind interfered slightly, the audience noticed this also. We cut out a lot of wind, but we couldn't get rid of it all as we would have lost our dialogue also. If we had time we would have done a reshoot.

Our feedback on the fight scene was it needs to be more planned and story boarded better. I agree on this as we made up the fight on the shot, we didn't plan angles, shot types and what actions we were going to do before hand. If we did I think it could have been more professional.