Audience Feedback - Question Audience

         

After taking their reactions, we managed to gain the chosen audience to answer a few questions. This involved 4 males and 1 female. The fact that the majority are male is because they are our target audience from the age range 18 - 20 years old, they all fall under the minimum age range. We wanted to know if the trailer was clear, what should be improved, what appealed to them the most and so on.

From this feedback, we have gained really good feedback with little flaws that is either due to sound or filming.

Final - Penance Film Trailer

After we got the feedback, we discussed as to what further changes we can have in order to improve the trailer before submitting it was our final version. 

One of the changes we applied in order to improve the final draft is to reduce the amount of white noise heard. At the beginning, the first dialogue heard had quite a lot of white noise so we used Adobe Audition in order to reduce the amount of white noise to a minimum. This was also applied to the Priest's dialogue in the trailer.

In addition, we realised that the date for the film trailer was missing so we added that at the end with the title and social media inter-titles.

We decided to show that the film is a modern film being released by universal pictures, we changed the logo design from the old one to the new one (since it's what most of the latest films are currently using).

 Old Universal Logo

New Universal Logo

Audience Feedback - Final draft of trailer

This is a page full of screenshots from whatsapp feedback on our trailer's first draft. So far there were strong complimentary comments and a few flaws like not viewing the suspects in detail e.g. the pictures on the map, or a clip of an actor looking like they were about to laugh. Although these are flaws we unfortunately cannot improve on majorly as that would need additional filming. However as an overall result, we have gained great results on out final draft so far which means there would not be much changes done. There were great reactions of the music, the scenes, the plot and performances of the actors which we are grateful to hear about. This feedback very helpful to learn any improvements we may need and what we have done well in. So far, with this feedback we have done well.

Production Film Vlog - Official Blooper Reel for Penance Trailer

Creating a blooper reel helps us with the journey of our work, this shows the minimal mistakes both camera and actors had during filming. Exhibiting not only the mistakes but the deleted clips and scenes of our trailer.

Final Draft - Penance Film Trailer

This is the final draft of our film trailer 'Penance'. Through numerous changes and additions, Hyde Productions has finally completed the creation of the trailer.

This is what we gained the audience feedback from in order to know what needs to be improved before finalising the trailer itself. We as a group have noticed some faults in the trailer such as an outdated universal intro plus some white noise in some of the sounds.

             

Post-Production - Sound Editing

When listening to the dialogue in our draft trailer, we noticed a significant amount of white noise/hiss that affected the quality of the speech heard. This not only made it harder for the person watching to understand what was being said, but it negatively impacted the professionalism of our trailer, so in order to solve this issue we used Adobe Audition to reduce the white noise.

To begin with, we had to import the file that we wanted to edit the audio of. This was an easy process.

After selecting "Import > File", we just had to find the file. We did this by searching the name of it so we didn't have to spend unnecessary time looking through folders. When we found it, we just selected it and clicked "Open".

When the file has been imported, the sound-wave of the audio is shown, as can be seen above.The height of the sound-waves indicate the volume of the audio at that point. If you look closely at the image shown here, you can see that even at points that are meant to be silent, you can still see a small amount of amplitude - this is the white noise we wanted to reduce.

After importing the audio, the whole track had to be selected, so that both the dialogue and all the "silence" that we were trying to clean up would be included when the changes were made.

The next step clicking "Effects > Noise Reduction / Restoration > "Hiss Reduction (process)". This is effect we used to refine the audio.

This is the window that opens after selecting the Hiss Reduction effect. By adjusting the levels of the noise floor and how much you want to reduce the hiss by, you can work out where the optimum balance between quality of audio and reduction of white noise. We listened back to the audio repeatedly during this process to find the point of hiss reduction we were happy with.

These are the levels we decided on. As you can see from the sound-wave, the parts of the audio that are meant to be silent have less amplitude than they initially did, showing that the white noise has been reduced.

The final step was simply saving the file. Then we put the edited audio back into the trailer, and we used it as our final audio.

Production - Google Drive

As part of keeping all our files and accessible to both school and home laptops or desktops we used google drive as our portable hard drive, any day and anywhere. We had to use two accounts, hydeproductions15 and hydeproductions1502 since the first account's memory ended up being full due to the amount of film footage we had. The second account helped keep hold of extra footage, music, after-effects inter-titles and introduction. All members of the film crew had full access to both accounts.

Thankfully enough this also provided us a gmail account and a youtube account in addition when signing up to google overall.