The feedback on the cut of the film openning

Overall in general the feedback for the film opening was good the consensus was that structurally the film was good an very easy to follow as the subtitles of '1 day earlier' mean that the audience knew where the film was in the chronology of the events that later take place.

Richard Mansell - 'The film didn't seem like an "amateur" it felt like it had been constructed professionally and the actual shots of the film were cleverly taken.'

Peter Clavin - 'The framing of the shots are very clever in using the windows and the natural tree branches to frame and attract the eye to the shots.'

Ellie Brackley - 'The sound track to the film was very original and served a purpose to the tone of the film it was very carefully chosen and an audience will appreciate that.'

The above quotes were just a sprinkling of the feedback that I was given about the film and I was almost surprised by the high praise that I got back from it.

However it wasn't all plain sailing so to speak as in the first cut it ran over the time set by the exam board so I had to make some cuts to the actual screenplay by cutting out needless shots that didn't add to the storyline at al and also for the opening credits they were in a montage however, feedback from the focus group and also teachers suggested to me that it was needless and wasn't influential in the film as it didn't provide and substance to the fil and it felt clumsy the way that it was put in so ultimately the idea was cut out and I had the credits above the real life action shots of the bridge hanging shot as that is what many directors do with in their own films such as 'The Revenant' directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu as the shoots did provide a lot of eye opening moments into how modern day film making is created and ultimately won an Oscar so it was surely good enough for my project to recreate it but with in my own image and ideas.

This was realty the only issue that I came across while editing and that was actually a relief as it was quite stressful trying non copyright get copyright music and implementing the right tone into the film and not losing any emotion or action to make it as engaging to the audience as possible for a so called 'amateur film' as the only thing I can't do that they can is use thousands of pounds worth of cameras and have months filming it.