Finished!

After fixing up our sequence using the feedback from the test screen, we were due to test screen again but were forced back because of the many changes we needed in our editing. This left us to test screen after school at about 4pm. Since lunchtime there had been further changes to the sequence applied by Jack and Shaun - this being the main title being finished by Jack, and some further changes by Shaun who had replaced the 'help' shout with a horrifying scream of pain. This, somehow over the top, seemed to work really well because of its shocking nature. It was perfectly timed with the hand banging against the door glass and we though it would make people jump, which is the point of a horror film. Also we had responded to more feedback from Miss Blackborow, adding more titles for the duration of the sequence as otherwise our piece would not technically be a "title sequence". We filled this with random names and media-related roles.

We did not get to test screen until about 4.45 because of other test screens, so we showed fellow media students around the department the sequence and asked for more feedback. This was alot more successful because of the miraculous changes, but there were still one or two things to fix up! We were told to change one of the names of our extra titles as it was distracting from the scene. This name was 'Han Chan' who is actually a boy we know, but we saw how funny this name could be percieved as if we had made it up. We were also told to move around some of the titles away from the main subjects on the screen such as to the sides and the bottom corners. The only other thing we were left to think about was the volume of Matt's voice over the music on two very short occasions. Other than that the changes we had made were fine, and the shocking ending was successful in causing the students a fright!

We went away for 15 minutes and quickly applied these changes, lowering the volume of the music on two parts of the dialogue in order to hear Matt, moving the titles around to fit perfectly on the screen without being distracting and adding a new name to one of the titles - an ambiguous and boring name, Tom Matthews, instead of Han Chan. We checked the whole sequence with Miss Blackborow one last time, saved, rendered and we were done, concluding our editing time at approximately 17:05.

Now our sequence will be put on Youtube and DVD, whilst we must get on with our evaluations... but our days in the edit suite are officially over leaving us with nothing but a gloriously completed sequence, fond memories and a tint of finalitic sadness.