Finishing and Having People Review my Final Task

    Unfortunately, we still had a bit of work to do on our final task before we could have someone check it over. From the time of my last blog, Juanita was able to make a bit more progress on our opening sequence. She checked over the titles to make sure that we had all of them in the right order and performed a few more minor editing details to clean up the final task. I then looked at the newly edited opening sequence to see if there was anything left and ended up making a list. I began by telling her to make the banging on the door that you hear within the second scene louder. Then I told her to make the studio company title longer, change the refilmed close up with the mom looking from left to right (before the close up of the drawer) to the original one and change the refilmed over-the-shoulder shot of the mom writing on the notepad (before she runs to the stairs) to the original shot. After I told her to do the things mentioned above, I went on to ask her to make the sound after the title card fade out more and fix some minor sound and video imperfections within certain points of the final task. We quickly finished all of these tasks and had our opening sequence ready to go for a few people to check it over.

    Before moving onto the critiques we received from family members, I should also state that one of the songs we included in our opening sequence did not say that it was copyright free. So, my groupmate Juanita emailed the channel that we got the sound from and asked if we could use the sound in our final task, as shown below. The person who runs the channel said that it would be okay to use the music, so we proceeded to use the sound in our final task.  

    I began by asking my dad his thoughts on the opening sequence. I invited him into my room and we watched it together. Once we were done, I asked if there was anything we should change and he only suggested that we turn up the volume on the part where Mrs. Maye says, "Hey darlin,'" and turn down the volume of the fridge closing. He also said that he understood what was going on and when I asked him about the sting at the end, he said that was good too. I wasn't sure if I liked the sound of the sting at the end, so that is why I asked my dad. Once he told me what to change, we only implemented the lowering of the volume of the fridge, because if we did turn up the volume of Mrs. Maye, the background noise would overshadow what Juanita's character was saying. We decided to implement the sound of the fridge because we thought that it was good advice that we hadn't personally thought of. Overall, I feel like his feedback was helpful and allowed us to finish our opening task confidently. Although there are a few things I would like to change, which are out of my control, such as the pixelated images that will occasionally pop up, I am satisfied with how the opening sequence turned out.