I collected some audience feedback about my completed thriller about what went well and what could maybe be improved upon. This feedback helps me to reflect and make my thriller to its best ability, as well as not making general errors in future.
Overall, my feedback was good, with a couple of helpful comments on how to improve it. My first title is too fast to see on the screen, so this needs changing so you are able to read it, some of the radio effects are muffled and you cant hear what they are saying, however from my audience feedback I found out that this actually created more tension, as it creates narrative enigma as the audience are questioning the narrative and what the police radio is saying. This sound being unclear can represent the police women as still unclear on the murder and what happened, this is apparently a good technique as the footage is continuously sparking questions for what the whole thriller would entail.
The fast flashing images were a good idea and made the thriller much more powerful as the continuously flashing black and white footage creates tension and suspense as the thriller progresses. Sound was also effective, instead of just adding music to the back, I added the police radio effect to add more depth. This effect also helps the audience guess the occupation of Amy, and that what she is doing in the first 3 minutes of the clip is something police related. Another good point that was given is the printed out pictures and articles on the table, my audience thought that this was effective as you are able to see clear images from the scene, both uploaded as an image and video footage behind.
For my sound within my thriller, I wanted both ambient and non diegetic sound such as low base to even out the sound levels. I wanted to be able to hear sound from within the film and also add sound to create tension so the audience are able to connect to the thriller. If the piece did not have the low base tune I added, or the police radio recordings, it would make the thriller boring, as without sound, the footage alone does not hold as much suspense as it does when the music is added.
From the website https://freesound.org/ I gathered a range of different sounds that could potentially fit into my thriller, ambient sounds such as the clicking of a pen, and the scraping of the chair, to the recorded police radios about how there is 'no gun involved'. This helped make my thriller much more realistic and it links to the police aspect of the opening, helping the audience suspect Amy as being someone in the police force.
I continued to edit my thriller to make it better and more sleek. I cut down the flashback footage so they are extremely small, instead of taking up a lot of screen time, making them a lot more tense and add to the convention of thrillers. I decided I did not need to re film or film extra footage as the footage I had was good to a high enough standard to create tension as well as create narative enigma.
In the double lesson today I added the basis of my sound to my thriller. I found a website where I could download free, copyright music and add straight into Premiere Pro. This website was helpful as it provided me not only with non diegetic sound, but also with ambient sound from within the nature of the film, for example the clicking of the pin lid and the moving of paper really helps make the thriller much more professional as it includes ambient sound as well as non diegetic music. Adding music was hard to do at first as I was unsure on how to mix and change the volume levels so you could hear one piece over the other, however with help, I was able to figure this out through experimenting and playing around with the software. I was able to successfully mix the sound so you could hear the police radio over the low bass that I added as a base for my opening scene.
Today, I added my titles to my thriller. I made the titles in Adobe After Effects, and just imported them into Premiere Pro without the solid white background so the words were visable in the footage without a solid background. I continue to add different titles to my film ever session, and make sure that they appear in the correct places and stay on the screen for a considerable amount of time.
Today, I started making my titles for my thriller. I used Adobe After Effect CC 2015 to create these titles, and used black text which will stand out over the top of my footage when added into premiere pro.
I want to record sound of my thriller that includes a reporter talking about the missing girl. I willl have a male and female voice, both talking about the crime, and they will be edited over the top of the footage. I want to add the sound effect of an old radio to the sound, as this will make the piece more realistic and as if its come from a radio.
DIALOGUE;
PERSON ONE; "Missing teen who was reported misisng last april has been found..."
PERSON TWO; "A body has been found in Westbrooks Forest on thrursday morning"
PERSON ONE; "...It is still unknown what happened to her, Detective Barber is still to give her statement."
Person 1 will talk half of their statement, and then I will cut and edit persons 2 report, and end with the last part of person 1's report. This mixes them up and makes the piece a lot less ordered.
