Final tweaks and burning!

The next chance I got to edit in lesson, I was able to add the music to my piece. I did this by saving the track onto a usb stick and transferring it onto iTunes on the Mac, and dragging it from there onto my work on iMovie. It took a lot of careful tweaking and fiddling, but i eventually managed to fit my music to my piece, and make it the right amount of time in length, fading in and out at appropriate moments. This was difficult as we had to ensure that our piece was only 2 minutes long, and mine kept accidentally going over.

With the music successfully added, the very final thing I had left to do was record my friend Alex's voice reading the letter for my voice over. We did this in the school music studio and burned the file onto CD which I then ripped the song from and put it into my piece. This was not the exact right length in time that I had planned to fit in with the music, but after some alterations I managed to get the two audio pieces to fit together, along with the film.

When I felt I was happy with my piece, I played it full screen on the computer, so I could get the whole effect, I did this several times to look for any mistakes I may have made, and I also got people in my class to watch too, to see if they could spot anything I might have missed, and what their overall reaction was to my film. This was very positive so I saved my work, (twice just to make sure) and started to burn. Once burning was complete we tested it in a DVD player and luckily it worked okay.

All that is left for me to do now is my evaluation. In preparation for this I have designed a questionnaire that will be given to classes throughout the school when they watch our pieces so that I can gain audience feedback, the opinions and conclude whether or not I was successful in portraying what I wished to in my film. I am hoping this method will work well and I have chosen a range of 10 questions that I hope will give me the answers I need to know how well I did, such as what genre they thought the film was and what they felt was most effective about the film. Most of my questions are multiple choice with the option of writing their own answer so that I can gain more precise answers that can be categorized and concluded on. I will use the answers I gain in my evaluation, and I have also posted my video on youtube in order to try and gain some more feedback. So far I have had over 70 views and 4 comments, all of which have been positive.

I am hoping I will have had some more feedback from that as well by the time I complete my evaluation.

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