After being given feedback it was important to push on with making the final changes to our film. Firstly, we changed the sound, which was one of the hardest things to change because there is a limited amount of presentable copyright free music. Eventually we agreed on an intense and suspense building piece of music. At first we feared it would not work well however, putting it along side the film proved it to be successful.
Secondly, we discovered our film to be short of approximately 5 seconds meaning it was not up to standard of the brief. We began to discuss ideas for the ending of our film. We thought that we needed to build some more continuity and we agreed that instead of just fading to black it should fade into a shot of the actor waking up in bed and getting up so it is more clear to the viewer that there is more to the film. We think as it cuts as he's getting ready that it should make the viewer want to see more, as we have asked a handful of people watch the film, as a result they agree that they want to see more. However, this idea could be leaning toward a cliche, we are awaiting feedback to discover if any further changes need to be made to this part of our film.
Finally, we had a very dark shot in the film which I thought needed to be brighter as watching it back we discovered it was hard to see. Luckily a member of our team was experienced with the software Adobe After Effects in which he made our titles move and in which he fixed this shot. He increased the light on this shots and put a red filter on it, I believe this is more effective as the colour red denotes danger which reinforces the thriller genre.
Over all I think our film after these changes looks more like a thriller film and hopefully with building more continuity it gives more of a professional effect rather than just a student film.
