Movie Opener Final Draft: Law and Disorder

NOTE: We wanted to change the quality of the video so that we could make it clearer and not as blurry as well as make some other changes but due to school closure because of COVID-19 we weren't able to do so because we didn't have access to the resources and materials we needed, thanks for understanding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptGGuTYkuKM&feature=youtu.be

Peer Reviews

Summary:

     The reviews all focused on the same aspects of our overall video. The comments mostly mentioned praises of the background music used, editing techniques, and one particular camera shot of Zoe's eyes which two people said that helped portray her character's feeling of nervousness. The reviews mentioned how the music we used fit well into all the scenes and helped create a sense of suspense which helped to showcase the genre of mystery we were going for. The editing techniques mentioned included transitions and font for the text used as well as the green screen used to input a preferred background. Some things our peers seemed to be confused about was who the character 'Santos' was, we didn't find this confusion very alarming because only two people seemed to be confused and the only reason they might've been was because they didn't read the opening credits where we state who is playing 'Santos.' Almost everyone else said there was no confusion and that our film opening was very clear on what the plot was. One person was confused on who the killer actually was, maybe the cues we dropped towards the end weren't obvious enough, but I think maybe they just didn't pay enough attention. We added the clip of Zoe's eyes to show she was nervous because we correctly accused her of the crime, but I can see why it would be confusing for the viewer since we had her try to explain it away and had the detectives believe her. But the point of this was to show we were bad detectives because clearly she had done it. We might add something to make this revelation more clear as we move forward but for now Madison and I agreed it wasn't really necessary. Some significant suggestions we got was to somehow make the video quality better so the video wasn't as blurry and so that the evidence board scene would be more comprehensible. Madison and I agree with that suggestion and are gonna look into ways of fixing that because we do think the film opening would be better is the quality was fixed. We will work with our teacher moving forward to resolve that issue and better our opening.