Audience Questionnaires - Luna

1. Is it clear what the genre is?
- Yes; romance? Romantic drama?
2. Is the sound appropriate/does it fit with the genre/content?
- The music is lighthearted and catchy and sounds 'young' like the couple.
3. Does the opening scene create enigma?
- I want to know how they got together completely, and I want to know why he looks so sad at the beginning & why is he on his own if the relationship is so good?
4. Can you understand what is happening?
- The rewind was going back to when they first met, the beginning of the relationship in the montage.
5. Do the titles fit with the genre/content? Are they well made/edited?
- Yes, he seems to be the writer telling the story through a typewriter. They are well made and edited. They are clear.
6. Is the editing well done and clear? How would you improve it?
- Up until the end the editing was very good but I wouldn't stop the music dead at the end.
7. Is the misé en scene good and appropriate?
- I liked the day sections and night sections and the different locations. Obviously a lot of thought was put into this. It shows that the couple travelled together, e.g. to London
8. Is the opening scene convincing?
- Yes, it seems like a real film. The acting was very good, for example at the beginning the male didn't even NEARLY smile!
9. Did it interest you? Would you watch the movie?
- Yes, I want to find out what happened to Luna! Why is he on his own? How long were they together?
10. Please state what you would give it out of 60?
- 52, due to the one overly grainy/fuzzy shot and the fact that the music cuts out at the end.

Luna- (Bloopers)

Luna- Final Cut

This is the final cut for our project 'Luna', starring Jonathan Foulston and Ellie Robson, filmed by Dominic Freedman and Zahra Mukadam. The movie was edited by all of us. The film is from the point of view of Brody, who falls in love with a girl called Luna. The opening sequence shows a flashback of Brody and Luna's relationship in a montage format- the flashback then rewinds to the first day they met. The rest of the film would show the progression of their relationship until the day things took a turn for the worst and Brody's life after the incident.

Re-editing - Luna

We plan to improve upon our rough cut for Luna in order to make it the best it can be. To do this we will:

• Make the titles stand out (a lot of work will go into this; each title will be 'typed' by a typewriter and will be in a different place depending on shots)
• Cut the shots of the montage crisply in time with the music
• We will add the final shots of how the couple met (in a coffee shop) at the end of the rewind and after the title in order to explain the rewind and also so that the title is not at the end, hopefully making it look less like a trailer
• By cutting the shots of the montage down, hopefully we'll be a little closer to 2 minutes and also we can cut the confusing black section out of the middle of the video
• We will audio gain the voice-over to make it louder than the music and easier to understand

Feedback

We have got lots of feedback on the rough cut version of our opening sequence, mostly positive:

Is it obviously an opening sequence? Is it clear who the target audience is?
Many people have said that the genre of 'Luna' is quite clear as well as the target audience. However, some people have mentioned that it looks like a music video or trailer which is not what we hoped for.
Titles go with genre. Is the genre obvious? Are they clear? Are there enough and are they in the right order?
Feedback on the titles was overall positive saying that the titles were clear, relevant, in good order and went with the genre, and people saw that it was a romantic drama. Only criticisms were that the titles were too simple and there weren't a lot of them and one person did not understand how the type writer style font went with the romantic drama genre.
Think about the sound and the images are they appropriate? Do they go together?
Many people were impressed with the sound and said it was appropriate, the music is good and shows the genre. Some people said that the voice over in the beginning was good, effective and created a mood to the sequence however some said that they thought it was too quiet and the music drowned the voice over out. A lot of the feedback said that they didn't like the reverse sound in the sequence.
Camera - are the shots appropriate and relevant? Is there controlled use of camera attention to framing, variety of shot distance and angle? Close attention use of mise en scene?
We were said to have good use and variety of camera shots, clever camera techniques and they liked that when both characters in the sequence were alone the setting was dark but when they were together it was light which we didn't actually notice ourselves and we have very good mise en scene. Someone suggested that we could have included a high shot.
Editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selextive and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects.
Lots of the feedback was positive regarding the editing saying it was good and relevant and our opening had smooth transitions. However, a lot of people mentioned that they did not get the idea of the rewind part of our sequence, and said that because it blacked out before it rewinds it stopped the scene from flowing.
Total score and any other comments
Lowest score: 36
Highest score: 58

It has been said to be convincing that the couple in our opening sequence are truly in love due to their brilliant acting, cute, voice over is effective, confused about the link to the title needs more enigma codes, unsure about rewind and it has been cited as one of the favourites out of all the opening sequences.

Production Evidence

 This photo shows our group working out the responsibilities of the other members and figuring out which pitch we will chose to film for our opening sequence.

 

 This photo shows Dom and me working on the computers. One is researching narrative voice- overs in films while the other is searching for a useful soundtrack for the film. 

 

In this shot we can see Jonathan looking for useful locations to film for our opening sequences.

 

 This shot shows Zahra and Dom working on the storyboard and the timeline for the film.

 

 This photo shows Jonathan and Zahra working out a shot list for our opening sequence and a script for our narration.

 

 This shot shows Dom working on the safety assessment for the filming of the opening sequence and Ellie working on the various mood-boards for our pitch and the titles research needed.

 

 This picture shows Ellie editing the Audience interviews we recorded for our films evidence to place on our blogs.

 

 This photo shows Zahra recording Jonathan while he is acting in our opening sequence.

 

This photo shows Jonathan editing the footage we captured for our opening sequence.

 

Questionnaires for Viewers - Luna

1. Is it clear what the genre is?
2. Is the sound appropriate/does it fit with the genre/content?
3. Does the opening scene create enigma?
4. Can you understand what is happening?
5. Do the titles fit with the genre/content? Are they well-made and edited? Are they clear? Are they in a good order?
6. Is the editing well done and clear? How would you improve it?
7. Is the misé en scene good/appropriate?
8. Is the opening scene convincing?
9. Did it interest you? Would you watch the movie?
10. Please state what you would give the opening scene out of 60.