Dan's opinion

Monday 29/06/09

I showed the final product to Dan Creed for the first time today and It was greeted with extremely good and warm reception. Dan commented saying it was a very good piece of work and ran through several sections complimenting the shots and angles used (close up of cup as walking to the office door) for example.

The only changes Dan suggested I should make were in the first scene (Fight scene) The original clip ran on for roughly a minute and a half, which Dan said was far too long for the opening. He said the scene should use extremely quick editing; leaving out several interludes between punches being thrown. Leaving only a few of these interludes in to calm the audience after a dramatic rapidly editing montage of kicks and punches to excite the audience.

He also suggested leaving several outcomes to the fighting out, making the audience guess what the outcome was, leaving it to their imagination, a technique which will enhance the impact as an audience will always expect the think the worse of a situation.

Dan was correct in all counts. It definitely builds on the tension I was looking for a lot quicker than the original cut did and, for lack of a better word, the oompf, gave to the opening scene not showing every blow is a vastly appreciated piece of input.