Rough Cut of the Film Opening: Adding improvements

Unfortunately today Katy wasn't able to come into our 2 media lessons because of illness. Despite this, Indya and i did what we could and that involved asking our teacher and another member of staff for their opinion on our film opening and on how it should be improved. It proved that they both had feedback to give us with improvements which Indya and i spent adding. These included:

• Cutting down the shot of the antagonist screaming
• Making some shots shorter due to the camera jolting
• Slow down the establishing shots at the start of the opening

In our two-hour lesson Indya and i managed to work on these improvements and then began working on the improvements from our friend's sister. We've added another track of music just as the score gets louder and we reach the climax of the opening. Whilst it certainly adds more tension it's a bit over the top, creating more suspense than necessary. Indya and i have played around with the volume to reduce creating too much tension than is necessary but I think we'll have to see what Katy thinks about this before we definitively make a choice about building the music up at this point. Other than building up the tension with louder music etc. we just need to play around with looking at using lighter filters for the house interior and darker filters for the exterior, establishing shots. At the end of the lesson a friend of ours noted that he thought some of the credits could be moved- particularly the credit 'A Paranormal Production' which should be moved further to the right because the writing is quite difficult to see when contrasted with the light colours of the doorway. 

*As a note, Indya and i are rather annoyed and stupefied because the music at the start of our opening happens to go suddenly quiet before going back to normal volume. We don't understand why it does this since the volume hasn't been altered in any way so we can only assume that it's part of the track itself.