Sneak peek: Before and after

 

For our class, we were tasked with making a "sneak peek" of the first 30~ seconds of our opening, and ask for any feedback on the quality of the opening, like font choice, color grading, clip length, etcetera. After showing our sneak peek, we got high praise from the class on our lighting techniques and pacing, as well as the contrast between the garage scene and the park scene. There were a few pieces of feedback however, and it was centered around the text displayed on screen and the sound effects. 

Many people had an issue reading the "Directed by: Nicolas Gutierrez" text at the start of the park scene, due to the low contrast between the text and the light background. To rectify this, we increased the drop shadow on the text, and added a small outline to the bottom of the text, to increase its readability.

During many of the scenes we filmed, there was a lot of extra sound in the space we filmed, leading to the natural foley we planned on using becoming obsolete. So to ensure better quality audio, we muted the video and placed extraneous sound effects of writing on paper and birds chirping to the garage and park scenes respectively. However, our classmates agreed that the sound effects we used were too loud, and overpowered the voiceover in some places. So to fix that, we lowered the audio's volume across the board, and hopefully fixed the issue. The fixes will be shown in the final cut.