Audience Feedback

Audience feedback is essential to carry out in order to receive non-bias opinions; pointing out the positives, as well as including comments on where we could have improved. This information helps us to have an understanding of where improvements should be made so that we can take them into consideration and make changes, therefore developing a better, more enjoyable to watch thriller that can be easily understood.

My group and I screened our production in a West Hatch assembly in front of year 8's, therefore having ages varying between 12/13. The assembly included around 200 students with a few teachers. Once completing our 2 minute thriller opening we decided to post the clip on YouTube. I felt doing so helped us as allowed us to gain instant feedback from random age groups, which helped us further our research of how successful the thriller is and who it appeals to.

I felt that screen our thriller to an audience would benefit. By doing so, myself and the group are able to receive honest feedback, including constructive critism in how to improve our two minute opening. We chose to screen it to our chosen target audience of 12+, as it enabled us to critically examine if our thriller appealed to them, and whether they enjoyed it or not.

Audience's comments:

 

Good comments

‘When the villain is running the camera shot is out of focus, which keeps the characters unknown. This suits a thrillers conventions, therefore keeping me in suspense.'

-Nicole Whippy.

 

There was a wide range of camera shots used that suited the conventions; for example the point of view shots were very effective.'

-Emily Carr.

Constructive comments

‘ Linking between shots could have been more fluent to make the film run smoothly’

-Michael McNeish.

‘Some shots should have been filmed with the tripod due to some unsteady shots’.

-Megan Gadd.

I felt that receiving good and bad comments, finding out where we went right and wrong helped us to understand where improvements could have been made. By making the changes, it means that our following audience will enjoy the thriller even more, making it more successful.

Group Meetings

Our groups meetings consisted of logging our groups discussions week by week. The purpose of carrying out our meetings, is to make a record of what my group and I discussed per lesson when creating our planning posts; deciding what our thriller was going to consist of. Also, it helped that my group and I had done our individual planning such as our individual storyboards, which helped to develop our group storyboard.

Within the whole production process our group worked extremely well together, helping each other when we experienced difficulties in each aspect. We developed a good relationship between us and made sure if one was stuck, another would help.