'The Exchange' Evaluation and Feedback

The initial impressions of 'The Exchange', was that we had chosen a good location which was a tunnel - very apt for a film noir. However the audience (our class) did not like the music, they felt it was too abrupt and our group agreed. This could have been avoided during editing, whereby rather than simply stopped the music when the shot cut, we should have slowly faded it out. We also wern't that pleased with the title screen, we and the of the class found it too long, which is another thing that could have been easily put right during editing by simply reducing the amount of time the titles were on screen or by speeding it up. We also felt in hindsight that we did not use enough close ups, which we only discovered once we were into the editing phase. From this we learned that it is better to film a lot of varied shots, more than we actually need, so that when it's time to edit, we will have a vast selection to choose from. In short, it's better to have too many shots then not enough as they can always be wittled down during the editing process. Kira Knight's role within the group was to be the art-directer meaning is was down to her to decide the costume and props. She picked a red dress for the femme fatale, the character she played, and a big black bag for Ben's character. Her choice was well recieved by the rest of our group as well as the class, as it really coincides with the film noir look that we were going for.