What would we have done differently within our Thriller opening if we'd have had a chance:

These are the problems we encountered whilst creating our Thriller opening and how we would have changed/resolved them if given another chance;

- Firstly, the first few storyboards we created were far too extreme. I'm not talking blowing up buildings and gang gun fights, but for the time, money and rescources we had it was just impossible to do. This meant each time we came up with another extravagant idea we wasted yet more precious time. If i could go back i wouldve created a simple storyboard that would have been easy to follow straight away.

- Also, we only had one day to film our Thriller opening where all four of our members where available, so we had to either film it all in this one day or have nothing to hand in at the end. This meant it was all planned in a bit of a rush, this led to us not only forgetting things such as fake blood and changes of clothes for the main actor, but also the camera and tripod itself. This was resolved by a friend lending us his camera and us actually using a washing line as a tripod. Although it still worked well, it meant we couldnt edit our shots on our school iMac computers, and therefore had to film it on a different computer which used SonyVegas editing software. This meant yet more time was wasted as it took more time and effort to edit our clips as we could only use this one computer. If we could change it, im sure we would have just used the camcorders given to us, even though the Sony camcorder we did use was much better quality.

- Another thing i would change would have been the ident. The ident was actually one of the very last things we did as we near enough forgot about it entirely, leaving it right to the last minute. This meant we had very little time to teach ourselves how to use the programme and how to create a proffesional looking ident. What we ended up with was something we all did like, but im pretty sure we all think we couldve done a bit better given we had enough time.

- I would also change the song to our Thriller. I dont know whether its the fact i had heard it be played hundreds of times by the end of creating our Thriller opening, but by the end it just didnt seem to quite fit. Although the song was young and catchy, perfect for our target audience, and the ironic lines about repition used once or twice, it seemed like the song wasn't as obvious as to why we picked that particular song to go with our Thriller as we would have hoped. So i perhaps would have gone back and looked harder for a replacement song.

- Also, there is one clip within our Thriller opening i'm not particularly keen on. The moment when our main character of the topless man's head collides with the door then fades into a shot of him lying on the floor. Although i like the effect of this shot, i believe it is much too quick after the rush of the attack and would've prefered to have extended it a little longer to add a little most hesitation and tension.