We got 28/60 for our rough cut of our thriller so we had a lot of changes to make to increase our mark.
Our rough cut:
In our feedback we were told that we scored highly in our visual continuity and that our shots and the development of them were good; but were also told that it was mainly the sound continuity that was losing us marks and in order to get a better grade we would have to improve on this. In the first 6 seconds we used diegetic sound but in order to get better marks we were told to get rid of it and instead our whole narrative should only consist of non-diegetic noise as using sound effects would gain us more marks. We needed sound effects in various parts of the narrative such as when the protagonist was walking and when she was in the car. We knew that some of the sound effects would be difficult to find but we used all the sound effects that related to our thriller in our final cut. We were also told to either get rid of the heart beats or to make them lower as they didn’t match much with the narrative.
Another criticism was our titles as they didn’t mirror anything related to our narrative. We were also told that our thriller was too short and we needed to make it at least 25 seconds longer; we were told that we could make it longer by establishing the non-diegetic music with the narrative which we had failed to do. Overall we didn’t have much to change and thankfully we didn’t have to re-shoot any aspects of our narrative as this would have made the continuity not as good.
