Music feedback

We are hoping to include a small song in our film opening as well as other uses of sound and dialogue. These are the possible options we have found for songs that will feature in our opening:






After trying this song on some footage from our film we decided that the song choice was too cliche and did not include a unique sound. We asked for feedback from teachers and peers and the feedback was generally negative about the song. The comments included that the song was too repetitive, too cheesy and very predictable. These are all elements that we do not want our film to be. Therefore we decided to research other possible choices for songs that would be more effective on our film opening and which are unique.

Low budget film research

First draft of Connect Four

This is the first draft of our film- Connect Four. 

We met the deadline for our first draft which was good for group, but there are some improvements that we know that we need to fix. And in our next and final draft we will improve these factors accordingly. This will help us hopefully to gain a higher grade and make our film opening to a higher quality.

New voice-over

Possible Script for Voice-over:

We’ve been friends for as long as I can remember. When we were younger we were care-free and nothing else mattered. 

Those three took me in and gave me a place where I belonged. 

Our club started out as just being a bit of fun but it evolved into a place of refuge when we were older. A place where we could go and just have fun. We didn't have to worry about anything. 

We called our club, Connect Four simply because we that was our favourite game. We would meet two or three times a week and spend hours in our cabin. It would be night before we even realised, but we didn't care because we were having fun. 

As the years past our friendship grew and we became closer as a group. We never expected things to change… 

Shooting Schedule

This is the shooting scheduled which we shall follow, when we start filming our film opening scene. We have done this so we know what scenes, shots, location, Characters and props we are going to use each day. This will keep us organised and will help us to stick to the schedule, which will ensure that our task will be finished on time and we will therefore have enough time to edit our video to the best it can be.

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Teacher and Peer Feedback

Above is an emaze PowerPoint of the teacher and peer feedback which we received from pitching our film idea and it shows how we improved to make our film opening as good as possible.

And then after our first draft of Connect 4 was finished and we showed to our teachers we received this feedback:

Things we did well:

- Very clever titles

- Music is good

- Mise en scene is great

- Nice shots (love the titles)

Things we need to improve on:

- Voice over needs to be re shot, because is not strong enough.

- Need to signify how the kids and older kids are young and old versions of each other.

- Music volume feels off

- Cut to "I'll follow you"

- Fix Colour in grown ups playing in cabin

- More time needed on the "Tilly Hawkins" title