Here is my Final Edit. The After Effects that I have used in my film include the following: Our Production logo that is shown at the very beginning of the film, this is counted as one of my after effects as I took time to Update the logo from the original to what it is now. As you can see the difference when you watch my Preliminary Task One and then my Preliminary Task Two. My Other After Effects used is the credits, when the names 'Niav Rice' & 'Pheobe Armitage', this after effect is called a slow fade animation on letters. An extra After Effect I added was a 'Glitch' On one of my actors, this one is not visible at first but you can definitely see the glitch, this Effect is used 0:25 seconds into the short film.
Hi Mele
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Overall you have a great idea. The hostage situation is a great one to play around with in terms of suspense. A little more refining of your editing style would help with a more sophisticated media product and this is just down to time spent playing around with transitions and effects. You are definitely on the right track in being able to effectively recreate a film opening in the thriller genre.
- your logo looks great, works well to have your music underneath it
- It's good to make sure you have all the codes and conventions of the titles and credits correct for a film opening. There are usually credits popping up more often than just 2 as it is more than a film opening, it's an actual title sequence.
- your establishing shots set the scene well.
- your fade from black into shots of the hostage are good, it would just be good to have had a shift or something different in the music here to reflect the introduction of your vulnerable character (glitchy / blur over her reflects her disorientated, distorted state, well)
- nice use of shadow in the shot of the masked man walking past
- film title is a nice font that links well to the credit font
- Good shift in music for the shot of the masked man standing by pole. This would have been a lot more effective if our first glimpse of him would have been a close-up or some sort of actual reveal of who it is. The second shot could have been him by the pole, placed in relation to the location
- It could have also have been really effective to introduce the mask as iconography and symbolism in the intro to the film, maybe lying on a table or hung up by someone's bed etc, this could have nicely set up the story that someone uses that mask for something sinister.
- fades to black and struggling hands footage don't really add to anything. The fades to black happen too often and at this stage we are out of the build up and into the action. The editing needs to reflect this with better transitions and editing techniques. the struggling with the tape on her hands is just too long.
- fades in and out of black at the end with Chloe screaming work well
- nice ending shot
- good for music to change with intro of the credits