Audience feedback

Audience Feedback

After completing our thriller film, it was then shown to the rest of our media class so that we could get some audience feedback on the opening of our film. Some of the positive comments that we got included things to do with music – how it went well with what was going on, the changing of camera angles – the use of POV shots and the shot in the mirror, the way in which we incorporated a news scene into our film – which we filmed separately and then added in and the storyline – which was said to be eerie and attention grabbing, making the audience want to know more. The main negative comments that were given about our film were that some of the camera angles were slightly shaky – which gave it a slightly less professional look at some points, the fact that we should have shown the news report – we did have a shot of this but decided to cut it for some reason, and that there was too much dialogue - quite often there is no dialogue in a thriller opening but there was a few lines in ours. Most of the negative comments reflect people’s personal choices, i.e. some people don’t like to have dialogue in a thriller opening. These sorts of points would be taken into consideration if we were to make our opening again. Overall there was more positive feedback than negative feedback for our film opening, and as part of the audience feedback questionnaire that they were given each person was asked to rate how appealing the title of the film was, and then how appealing the opening was a whole. Our audience gave the title of our film 4.3/5 for appeal ability. And they gave our thriller opening as a whole a score of 4.43/5 for appeal ability. These are very good scores, above average. This means that our audience liked our film, even though there were still a few things which could have been done to improve it. We were very pleased with the scores from our audience feedback, and we also feel that we produced a good thriller opening sequence.