I have listened to Suzanne by Leonard Cohen and thought it would be the perfect ending to my film as it is quite eery and slow with lyrics that can relate to the story itself.
The lyrics themselves are about a similar girl to in my film, a young innocent female therefore making it a perfect ending.
Before using it I will have to email the record label to ask for permission to allow me to use it.

I had previously planned to film this Thursday although, due to the severe weather during the week my location had been flooded and therefore I couldn't which has delayed the progress of the film.
I have decided, after looking at the weather forecast that next thursday the weather will be good enough and should have dried up enough to film then.

Audience Feedback of Rough film

I showed other students in my media studies class this rough cut version of my film. One student was asked his opinion of the film to find out what he liked and disliked about the movie.


This will help me to find out what members of my target audience like to see in short horror movies so I can know what needs adding to engage with them and what they think needs changing.

Here is my very first edit of some of the footage that I have collected, along with a directors commentary about the improvements we could make.

IMPROVEMENTS; 

This is the very first take of the film after the first day of filming, looking back at it after editing I have analysed the footage, as well as getting feedback from others, to find out what is good about it and what needs improving.

In the pan shot at the start it loses the smoothness towards the end, making it quite jumpy so I will need to re-film that shot. Also, the protagonists feet move which does not look very profesional so the whole shot will need to be filmed again.
Some people that fit into my target audience said that they liked the fact that the pan shot starts out of focus and gradually focuses on the protagonist, giving it a dream like effect as some people said.




This second video is some audience feedback that we have collected from another media student to see what he thinks is good, what is bad, and what can be improved on our video.

Changing of cast

Earlier on in my blog, I wrote about one of the actors that I will be using for my film and how he worked well to play the role of the antagonist but when it came to filming, he was not available and therefore I had to find a replacement.

The actor used to replace him is also very masculine and has had experience in acting before. He engaged with the camera very well, so he was perfect for the part.

180 degree rule

The 180 degree rule is important when filming on screen interactions between two or more characters. It involves using an imaginary line of which you must ALWAYS film from the same side up to 180 degrees. It is mostly used during conversations so is not as important to worry about it in my film, but if it is followed then it means the characters don't suddenly switch places which it would appear as if you filmed past 180 degrees of the line. 

This video that I have found gives a brief explanation and helped me to understand the rule. 

It has helped me with my own filming as I now know that when filming interactions between two or more characters there is a set line that you cannot cross over. This has improved the continuity in my filming even though the is not much of an encounter between the two characters, if there had been speech invloved then the rule would have been much more important, however, as there was not it wasn't such a big deal to try and follow.