making the changes decided by the audience

In my final product I made the changes and improvements that were made by the audience to make
my product better and more suitable for the audience.
the changes I made were:
-the titles
-sound
-adding some shots of the 'zombie'

By adding these in I believe that I had improved the quality of my product so that it is more appealing and overall better than what it was before I improved it.

Audience Testing

I showed my media product to my target audience (which was teenagers) who were in my class so I was able to get feedback from multiple people and see what they thought I could change or improve to make my final product better. a thing that was said a lot was that the music was drowning out the rest of the diegetic sound so they found I hard to hear it, and also that the text at the beginning did not stay on the screen long enough to read all of it, so this is something in which I can improve on when it comes to adjusting and improving my final product.
apart from that, generally the feedback was positive and they thought the narrative was good and was understandable, they also thought that my opening titles worked well and was effective in establishing the genre and does help to portray what genre it is.

Rough draft

Rough draft:

(Video will be uploaded Monday)

evaluation:
I think that some aspects of my draft worked well whereas others did not, for example I think that my opening text did not appear on the screen long enough for the audience to fully read it, so in my final product I will have to lengthen the amount of time that it appears on screen so that my audience has time to read all of the text. within my draft I did not have any sort of footage of the zombie figure apart from a POV shot, to improve this I will add more footage but not so much as I want to keep the identity of the figure a mystery and not give away too much information so that it leaves unanswered questions that will attract my audience. Some of the diegetic and non-diegetic sound did not work well, or was too loud so for my final product I will have to adjust the sound so that it does not drown out some of the diegetic sounds, or so that some of the diegetic sound does not seem too loud and unnatural within the scene.
Overall I think my rough draft turned out okay but it has opened up my eye to see what I can to improve and alter to make my final product better and more realistic, with completing a rough draft firs it also means that I can see what timing I am at and how much more footage I can put in/take away to make sure my final video does not overrun the two minute target by a ridiculous amount.

Titles

For my title I had the title of the film (DAY 785) in a rough font and in red so that it sticks with the genre convention, also with the colour of red that I chose could symbolize blood and danger which would relate to my media product as it is a horror/thriller.
My original idea for my titles was for it to appear whilst action was happening behind it, but after gaining audience feedback and re-thinking it, it turned out that the title was too large and was also making the audience pay attention to the title instead of what was happening behind it. Because of this I decided to have my titles separate to any action that takes place to avoid distracting the audience.
I finally chose to have my title at the beginning and have the text on a plain black background with the title text on it so that it is easier to read and is also not taking the viewers attention away from anything else that is happening. Also by having it at the beginning of my product it allows the audience to see the title of the film first so they can get a gist of what the film is going to be about.

This is my final title design

Evaluating my preliminary task

my preliminary task turned out well and the angles and shots of the camera worked well and gave a clear narrative to the story behind the film. the angles used were good and worked well, these angles and shots worked together and gave a clear and smooth transition between cuts.

Sound

For my final product I used a variety of sound effects and non-diegetic music in it.
I sourced some of the sound effects from iMovie and the rest from a website called soundbible.com, as this site offers a wide range of sound effects which are very realistic and are able to add a  good/suspenseful effect to my film. For example I managed to find a realistic sound of a rifle being shot which I used for the scene in which the protagonist fires the rifle, my audience thought that his sound effect was good as the rifle sot sounded powerful and had the echo afterward which gave an added sense of realism to my product.
I sourced the music from www.purple-planet.com, this site allowed me to gain access to effective and scene-setting music which worked to give my product an added atmosphere to it as the sound allows the audience to suggest what is gong to happen within the scene so it was important that I found the best suited music for my product, I did this by applying the different music to the scene and showing my audience and getting their feedback on which one suited the scene the best. With my audience feedback I chose what music to use and which scenes I was going to put it over. I was originally going to have music running over the entirety of my product but after I got audience feedback they said how it would be better if in the beginning scenes I did not have any non-diegetic sound and just had the natural sound within the scene, such as the twigs snapping and some birds singing in the trees.