First cut- feedback from class

When we showed the class our first cut we got some constructive criticism back that meant we could make changes to our film and make it better.

Some feedback we got back on our match on action was that it could be edited better so the clip runs more smoothly. So we went back and edited by making the cuts sharper.
Even though generally the voice overs were good there is one section where they are not that believable but this was hard to try and change because the lips are moving quite quickly and there are not distinctive lip movements to see what is actually being said.

We aimed to create a comedy and from everyones reaction we managed this, people seemed to laugh at the right bits and it was a light hearted comedy, so I feel we fulfilled what we wanted to achieve.

On the first cut we didn't have all the titles that we wanted and in the places we wanted, we decided to put the film title "Upstaged" at the end of the 2 minutes because it made more sense and fitted better because then people would understand why its called upstaged because of the competition with the two dancers trying to 'upstage' each other.

The music over all worked well, we had the two different types of music playing when each character came on to screen separately and then when it's the two of them we had a separate clip playing to bring them together. There was only one clip that we had to change the volume lower because we couldn't here the voice over clearly so we went back after the first showing and changed this.

Our mise-en scene (costumes) were also talked about, it was said that the costumes didn't really work because it wasn't obvious who or what our characters were.It needed both the music and costumes together.

After hearing all of this we went back and changed what we needed to and ended up with the final cut.