Audience feedback is key when producing a film, it gives opinions including advantages and disadvantages. These opinions mean the production team an understand what they are doing well and what needs to be improved, the more feedback collected the better the film will be. Getting feedback means suitable changes can be made on the work to improve it so it is more enjoyable for they audience. Audience feedback shows the different roles what they have worked well on and why it is liked, it also tells them what's not so good and maybe even ways which could improve it. The advantages and disadvantages that are given are important to see when creating a film because it shows how the film can be made better before it get officially released, it gives a chance to make corrections and changes so that it is a good a possible.
I collected my audience feedback on YouTube. I uploaded my rough cut onto my page and asked people to watch and comment what they thought. I chose this way because the audience couldn't be effected by my presence which they might be if I used a questionnaire or a focus group. This way meant that the audience could express their real opinions and wouldn't be influenced by anything.
The feedback will benefit my production because my group and I will be able to make changes in order to make our opening sequence better. The feedback will let us know what needs to be worked on or changed meaning we can work on certain assets that have been mentioned on YouTube. Having improved on our work means it will be more effective and enjoyable when the final cut is finished, there will be less mistakes and any weak points will have been worked on. These means our opening sequence will be more successful than out rough cut and be more popular with the audience.
Even though to improve our production we need criticisms we also asked audience to leave positive comments of what they thought we did well. One of the more positive comments was about our narrative it said "The narrative is very well thought out and it is clear that the man is a threat to the girl". This shows my group and I that the audience can clearly understand the storyline in our opening sequence, they understand what is happening and who the antagonist and the victim are. Knowing this helped us to know that we don't need to change much on our narrative and that it is something stronger within out work that we can follow.
Another positive comment was that the suspense built up well. Throughout most of out sequence we tried to build up suspense so that the ending was more effective and the audience would want to carry on watching the rest of the film. This comment said that the suspense was used well so make the victim seem vulnerable. This feedback meant that we knew we have built the right feeling for the film and that we achieved what we needed to, in order to add to the effectiveness of the production.
There was also a comment on our opening credits saying that they were conventional and fitted in well with our work. They spoke about how the font looked hand written and strange which is another convention of the thriller genre. Having dysfunctional writing added to the antagonist assets in our opening sequence. They also mentioned the way the writing faded away which made the film look mysterious. This comment was useful because it informed us that our credits were effective for the audience and had the effect that we wanted to give off.
The most useful comment were the constructive ones. Having constructive comments meant we could work on our weak spots in the opening sequence and make changes so that it improved. One of the more negative criticisms was that the sound track wasn't edited well. It mentioned that our non-diegetic music wasn't edited well, it didn't suit some areas where it could have been the pace could have been quicker and the wasn't enough sound effects. My group and I agreed with this comment because we didn't have many sound effects within out sequence and the music sound strange in some places, because of this the audience were left sometimes left bored and emotionless. To change this we are going to change the editing of our music so that is fits in with our shots and adds to their effect.
The next constructive comments was that we didn't have a wide range of camera shots. The comment said that there wasn't many exciting shots leaving the audience abit bored at some stages. This meant that our opening sequence seemed a bit to long and strung out. To change this my group and I are going to take some more shots and which are a bit more creative and difficult which we will then add into out film. This should help us to create a more exciting opening sequence which stops the audience from being bored and losing interest.
Another constructive comment was about our lighting. I talked about the inconsistency between our shots colours and how some were brighter than other. We already knew our lighting was an problem, because of the times we were filming it meant our perfect lighting didn't stay for long lots of our shots had different lighting which made it look unrealistic. To improve this we are going to add edits onto the shots which look to light or to dark. We want all of our shots to look low key and consistent so we have taken this comment on board.
Based on our comment my group and I are going to make change to out lighting sound editing and out shots. To do this we need to do some more filming and work on our editing more. For out lighting we are going to need to add a filter or tweak the contrast of the badly lighted shots in order for the n to look consistent. For the little range of shots we are going to think of some more exciting shots which could be more conventional to a thriller and go out for a bit more filming. Adding these shots will make out opening sequence more exciting for audience and they wont lose interest. The sound for our opening sequence need to be re done in some areas so that it adds to the effects of the shot and matches with the actions and situations taking place. To do this we will editing some more so that it start builds and finished in the right places. Having audience feedback means we are able to see what the audience are enjoying and what they think we could work on more, this helps our production because we can improve on areas to make our opening sequence better. It has helped us understand where our weakness are and where we need to look over. We can go back and improve our work so that our final cut will be much more effective and the audience will enjoy it more that the rough cut.
