Preliminary Task - Evaluation

How effective is the combination of your main product and your film poster?
My film of individuality and the poster that goes with it combine well in terms of connoting the emotion that is meant to be displayed. By this I mean that the emotion that intentionally conveyed in the film is meant to be that of sadness, with slow, meaningful moments and soft music and the character showing true emotion, this is then shown in the poster with the use of low colouring and an image that allows the audience to wonder "if he's going to jump?"
The idea is that as a result of the genre, thriller, it is important to make the audience question what is going to happen, in order to keep them entertained. Does he jump or doesn't he?

What have you learnt from your audience feedback?
From showing both my film and my poster to an audience I found that people generally understood the idea that I was essentially trying to convey, which is very good. Particularly they enjoyed the use of colourising to emphasise the mood within the scene. For example; in the film I darkened the colouring slightly to make it seem "dark" and "dull", and essentially display how the character felt, I also used "sepia" in my poster as this is often seen as somewhat an emotion tone, to show sadness, etc.
Overall I learnt that it may have been better for me to explain the story a bit more within the film as it was very confusing in terms of why the character was actually there, however the initial idea of this is important as I have decided to continue this in my Main task and therefore use this particular scene as the opening.

What have you learnt during the course of this project and what targets for improvement do you need to set for the main task?
Over the duration of this project I learnt the importance of organisation skills in terms of planning before to ensure that everyone knows exactly what is going to happen, this may be in terms of schedules being clearer or making sure that everyone "sticks" to the original script/planning. I have also learnt further skills in premier pro and photo-shop, as I struggled with these before from being unaware of exactly what I could do on them as well as not knowing how to use any of it. From firstly being shown basic skills on these programmes I was then able to go away on my own and "try it out" for myself which essentially helped me to work independently throughout.
In the future I would like to improve even more on my skills in these programmes to ensure that I fully understand the potential that can done to my project and therefore make it the best that it can be. I would also like to spend more time in terms of research, for example; being able to watch example films in order to give me an idea of what story-line I could possibly use in my main task. By this it will also mean that I can make sure the scripting I decide to use is the best one for my task!