Mendacity Audience Commentary

When we showed the rest of our media class our final product we got a lot of positive feed back. Mr Oswick said "The opening of the case scene worked really well and actually that shot was framed really nicely with Matt just looking over, the most nicely framed shot in the whole thing i think. It worked really well''. We where very proud of this shot as we had thought about what could make the scene more effect and we really wanted to achieve that. 


David in our class said he liked the sped up shot that goes down the alleyway, he thought that was really good and effective. Again it was another point in our film opening that we put a lot of thought into. We wanted to attempt to put a crash zoom in somewhere to just try it out, but it worked very quite.


Alex also added he liked the way it didn't stay on the same shot for too long and the credits faded in and out to black. He Also said some of the shot techniques like when the shot looked up towards the sky and came back down to a different area. This again was an Idea that we thought a lot about, And it showed off in the final piece because everyone thought it all looked impressive and smooth.




One area Mr Oswick touched on the few pieces of dialogue that were included were very quite and hard to pick up on. Which could be improved simply by having a proper mic or just recording the dialogue separately and link it with the video.

Mendacity Final Piece (AS Media Opening)

Diary of editing

March 27th

After speaking out side media lessons we had decided to use, the two tracks used are called Abandoned and On The Trigger. Kieran had put them over our footage and edited the switch between the two tracks to fit the change in scene. Kieran will then upload the final piece into his youtube account, which i will then later upload onto my blog.

Opening Credits second

After the previous post this is what kieran came up with at home, however he wasn't very happy with it and we as a group decided that we should use the first one with some minor changes.

Diary of editing

March 24th

In our lesson we had all decided that we need to cut one of the smaller time consuming parts out. After discussing for a few minutes in the group we had decided to cut out the toast scene. We would not miss anything very important out. The only thing we had to do instead of having the toast part in, was that me made a sound bridge of the kettle boiling from one scene to the next to have the same content as before.

We also said we would look on websites like freeplaymusic or non copyrighted music for our opening and talk out side of lessons yo what we think is the best and best fitted for our media work.

Diary of editing

March 23rd

Again in todays lesson we sat down at the laptop and still saw we had a fair bit down to get to the two minute mark. We kept cutting the odd second down when ever we could by either adding an effect or different ways of editing and using different cuts to shorten segments. We also said that we would have to start thinking out cutting a few small scenes out for the film to me on or around 2 minutes.

Diary of editing

March 22nd

In todays lesson we had looked over all the footage we had together and had all seen that we need to cut it down seriously if we are to meet the two minutes that we had been given. So once again we sat down and started cutting out a few seconds when ever we could. Another thing that we had to include where the credits, which we had decided they would be a good way to switch from scene to scene saving time.