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Difficulties in using After Effects

After finishing putting on all the credits and after effects on, our final outcome was complete. In the next lesson we hosted a screening of every media groups thriller film clips, including our own. This allowed us to get feedback from a fairly large audience on our video. We asked them questions such as, how do you think we could improve?; did you like it?; and what level do you think it would achieve on the mark scheme? They gave us honest answers so that we could learn how to improve our video.

The initial response from the audience was fairly positive. Certain members of the audience explained that they like the flashback after effects. They said that the black and white effect helped them to understand what the narrative was about and that the effects resembled going back in time. They especially liked the bus stop scene where the victim is about to get kidnapped. This was good news for us seeing as initially we weren't going to use a black and white effect on the flashbacks, we wanted to use a different effect  that meant that the image would appear slightly blurred and brighter, much like the flashbacks in the Bourne Ultimatum as seen below

Unfortunately, we couldn't figure out how to apply this to our own clip on after effects but we could adjust the saturation of the clip so that it appeared black and white instead. We were considering not including any effects on the flashback clips as we thought that the black and white effects might make it too dark and therefore fairly difficult for the audience to understand what they are seeing. However we thought that without the effect, the narrative might be seen as even more confusing as the audience wouldn't be able to tell what is the past and what is the present in the clip so we played around with the effects and eventually managed to adjust the saturation so that it appeared all black and white.