Feedback from our audience

The final question on the feedback sheet, which would generally help us to improve our opening was;
Did you notice any serious issues such as continuity errors, strange edits - Did anything not make sense to you?
"Story line was a bit confusing but knew roughly what was going on, sharpen the shots so they are closer together"

• "Storyline was a quite confusing but i knew roughly what was going on. Maybe sharpen some of the shots a bit?."
• "Sound needs a bit of work."
• "Didn't get the bit with the train."
• "Some bits are too dark, can't see as well."
• "Camera shots are slightly jumpy."

With this helpful critisism, as a group we can now go away and thouroughly look over these points and tweek our opening sequence were we need to, this will make it that much more effective for the audience.

Feedback from our audience

The next question that was asked was;
Who do you think the target audience is?

• "16+"
• "Mainstream"
• "People who like horror"
• "15+"
• "18, Indie Horror"

We was happy with these answers, as this is the actual target audience we was aiming for.

Feedback from our audience

As an extra bit of help, and to gain advice from our peers, after filming and editing, we decided to do a film showcase. This was so we could all show our films to an audience and get feedback and helpful critism so we could further improve our work. We gave out 'Feedback Sheets' to several people in the room and asked them to fill them out whilst watching our opening.
The first question that was asked was;
What was especially good about the film?

• "Really good editing- (Red lipstick with black and white) shot and good camera work and use of sound."
• "The camera work was really good."
• "Good use of colour."
• "Lighting was very good."
• "Never see the face till the end."
• "Good shots of the knife."
• "Shots of make-up and nail varnish at the start were really good."
• "Lighting suits the genre"
• "Good acting."

These points gave us a general idea that we was on the right tracks, and that the reaction was fairly positive.

Feedback After Media Showcase

This excersise was used to get some feedback for individual groups to improve and develop their work further. Our teacher decided to set up a showcase for us all to show what we had got up to on editing our opening sequence and to show the rest of the class to see the reaction. Noone had finished so we was all at ease as to why some of the feedback was negative, but this really helped us all. Our feedback shocked our group, as we were all thinking alot of work was needed to be added, but our audience had a different reaction and on evaluation sheets we handed out, came back very positive and the main negative point was some over editing, which can easily be changed.

What we had to do was stand at the front of the class in our small groups introduce our opening with the title and everyones roles and then play it to the class and some extra students and teachers. we then got some critism about there being no sound, which we already knew was a problem we needed to solve next.
Other than that the feedback really has help us to improve and make our opening that much better.