Evaluation of Holloway Road with Conor O'Sullivan

Sound

As a group we decided that we would have two different pieces of music being played in our film opening and at different times. One whilst Lyle is getting ready and hiding the Tottenham memorabilia and another at the end when we appear round the alley way corner and walk towards the camera. After searching for a few days we finally found two songs that we could use, this was hard to find because we had to use from a website called http://audio.lgfl.org.uk/ which is a copyright free website. The two songs we chose to use were 'Jet Stream' and 'Touch me'

We also found a couple of problems whilst trying to put in the music, we need to reduce the volume of the song whilst Lyle was speaking, however we did not have the technology in school to do this properly so i thought that we could use different levels, Audio 2 and Audio 3, Audio 2 was used for the normal volume, and Audio 3 was a lot quieter, so when the characters were speaking we would have a lower volume on the music and then raise it again when they stopped speaking, we used fades on the music so it also sounded better.

We also realised that the doorbell used was not loud enough so we went on a website called http://www.freesound.org/ where we found a distant doorbell so we chose to used this one.

Overall i am happy with the music that we chose and i feel it will be extremely effective.

Editing using classroom feedback

After listening to what our fellow class mates had to say about our film, we continued editing and used what we heard into our film. The feedback from the class also enabled us to see what we need to improve in our editing and where we could have improved with our filming. Luckily we found good music to add to our film, we chose two different pieces of music. One for when Lyle is rushing around his house and when myself and William are on our way to Lyles house, and another piece of music for the last scene where myself, Lyle and William are walking down an alleyway and Lyle is speaking. We also used the soundbridge at the beggining as we felt the titles at the beggining were slightly long.

Feedback from showing 'Holloway Road'

When we showed our first cut of our film to the class we had not decided what fonts to use for our titles, or sound because we had not decided on what fonts to use or what music to have playing in the different parts of the opening two minutes. As a result of this the feedback we got was not what we hoped it would be, as many found it slightly boring without music which we can understand. The positive feedback that we did recieve was that our match on action worked well, the props we used were good, our opening shot was good as it showed Lyle being a lazy character, also that our titles were in suitable places. The last bit of positive feedback we recieved was that the fridge shot was good and something they had not seen before, this lead to the class liking it and thinking that it was effective.
The negative feedback that we got was to put sound in, which we already knew we were going to have to do, the class did not mention our title fonts however we knew we had to change this as well. We also got told that it would be a good idea to add a sound bridge at the beggining, which we thought was a very good idea.
We thought as a group that showing our first cut of our opening of a film was a great idea as we got to see what the others thought of it and we got ideas that we can use to hopefully enable us to improve our opening two minutes. The idea that we thought would be the best to enable was the soundbridge. After hearing that idea we were keen to add it in at the beggining of our film.

This is the bedroom we used to film the opening scene where Lyle is awoken by a phone call. The blue wallpaper was ideal as it signifies Tottenham, which is the team Lyles character supports,which he is hiding from his 'firm' friends. Therefore we felt this would be an ideal room.

This is the mirror in the hallway which is used when Lyle is putting his coat on and about to open to see myself and William, he spends a fair amount of time in this mirror, rubbing his Tottenham Tattoo which he must not let his Arsenal friends see. The coat stand just in the right hand side of this photo is also used when Lyle picks up the Arsenal scarf to take with him.

This is the Kitchen used early on in the film where Lyle opens the fridge, to then hear the doorbell which alarms him. This space is also used when Lyle is hiding a few of his Tottenham memorabilia such as hiding the book in the cupboard below the sink and kicking a video underneath the sofa.