Construction Post 10: Looking back - reflections on our final outcome

I am very happy with the final look of our piece. We were able to produce a film opening that gave a good sense of who our main character was, as well as clearly convey the genre of the film to the audience. I think we were able to do this through a number of different avenues, for example our font for the titles was always going to have a scrap-book-y feel similar to that of Juno(2007), however after seeing the Art of the Title post for the CAMP Festival 2015, we knew we wanted to use a white font on top of B-Roll of nature and through merging the two styles of titling, we created our own format. Another influence to our titles was the film Submarine (2010) which used plain navy blue background and white text to form its titles. We borrowed this format to produce our more lengthy titles, such as crediting the institutions.

Looking back on our project, I am very happy with the aesthetics of the film, however if I were to tweak them I would try to push our "indie look" even further, through perhaps trying out a few different filters. I definitely feel that some of our shots around the lake could have looked even better had we shot them with neutral density filters, so that there was slightly less dynamic range in the shots, which sometimes lead to overly harsh shadows or areas of light. I also feel like if we had been more organized with casting the less important roles in our piece, such as the bullies, we definitely would have been able to get better actors to fill these roles and thus end up with a higher quality final piece. This minor fault with our opening was picked up on by many members of our focus group and would have been good to fix, had we had more time. That said, I am tremendously proud of our film opening for aglet (2016) and I hope you enjoyed watching it.