AS Opening Sequence Review

AS Opening Sequence Review

(The sound disappeared when we uploaded it to YouTube and we couldn't figure out how to fix it.)

What Went Well:

I think our choice of location was good because it was easy to get to for everyone in our group, and it also had everything we needed (a garage, driveway, dark rooms, quiet roads to do the car scenes etc). I also think as a group we worked well together because everyone was willing to give up time to get the scenes done. We did well to keep the conventions of our genre, e.g. the costumes (dark clothes and masks for burglars, formal clothes for detectives), the fast editing, most of the dialogue (swearing, police jargon).

The titles were quite good, and the way that the names appear on the screen. I think they are positioned in good places in the frame with an appropriate font and gaps between each name.

Even Better If:

Some of our shots were really dark, like the part while stealing from the safe. We wanted to keep the room dark so that the lighting would be consistent in the video but during post production we found that the 'safe' scene was much darker than it needed to be. After trying to lighten it using premiere pro effects and not finding an effect that made the lighting look similar to the rest of the video, we didn't have enough time to re shoot.

Another thing we could have improved on (even though it is really funny) is that we didn't stick to our script for the burglary, so Katie ends up saying "Guys, let's go," too many times. If we had remembered to bring the script with us to film the scenes that probably wouldn't have happened.