Whilst editing our film opening, we come to the conclusion that our original song choice of an upbeat house song didn't reflect our film genre as a Melodrama. This was due to in our feedback a lot of people mentioned this, they thought everything happened very sudden and wasn't aware or had any ideas that it was a Melodrama. As the music was so happy and joyful it did not really give out any ideas or suggest that something bad is going to happen. We thought that as a consequence of this we would lose marks as it would be hard to guess the genre and everything would not be clear what has happened at the end of the opening, it may leave the audience feeling confused. So due to this we decided to change our music to a slower more melodrama sounding song, but due to copyright laws we had to search for a song or piece of music that was not copyright. We found it very difficult to find any music that wasn't copyright and fitted what we needed. So therefore we made our music ourself by getting a friend to sing a cover of Coldplay - Fix you. We thought this song had the right tempo and dynamics to fit our Melodrama genre.
Also another concept of our feedback was that when Charlotte got hit by the train it wasn't clear enough, and it left the audience confused on what had just happened. One suggestion was that we added a scream and more significant shots to show exactly what has happened. This will also work with our new choice of music to ensure it looks more like a Melodrama and is emotional. So we then decided to add in a scream from Beth shouting Charlotte's name, and also added some footage of Beth trying to grab her. We hoped that this would make the occurrence look more believable and clearer. We also added a scream with this footage in order to emphasise it to the audience.
I personally think that these changes due to audience feedback have improved our filming opening a lot, and helps the audience understand and enjoy the opening more.
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