Audience Feedback

By Jumana Ismail

After we had a final opening sequence, we had the opportunity to view our films in a screening that was organised in our college theatre. Many students, parents, teachers and a film maker attended in order to give us their opinions on our open sequence as well as inform us on how successful it was presented. Everyone that was part of the audience answered a questionnaire in order to give us feedback so we are able to improve our opening sequences. I felt that the audience feedback at the screening was extremely vital, as it made me and my group recognise faults in our video that we did not previously see, as well as praise ourselves for the good job we had done.

Importance of audience feedback

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Did you understand the story line?

There were 16 people who took part in my

questionnaire, and 10 out of the 16 people said that they understood the storyline of

my opening sequence. 5 people said that they did not understand it, and 1 person

said sort of. Although the majority of the audience understood my story line,

some people did not, therefore as a group we have

decided to add in another character who is the hero, in order to make out story line

more interesting.

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Did this film feel like the beginning of the film?

10 out of the 16 people said that they felt like it was the

beginning of the film, however 6 people said that

no. Therefore, as a group we decided to start our opening sequence with a aerial shot

of our main location.

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The majority of the audience is answer was ‘sort of’,

however watching the film the understood the film. On the other hand I decided to change the titles of my film

to ‘can you hear me?’ instead of ‘the stone’ as we felt it

wasn’t very appealing to the audience. Additionally, I

changed the way the titles look to make it look like more of its set theme, which was a horror genre, as the previous

titles were blue and white, which didn't look very

scary and therefore appealing to my audience.

Did the titles help you understand the film?

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What type of film does this look like in terms of its genre?

Everyone that viewed our opening sequence, could clearly tell that it was a horror due to the wide variety of technological

techniques used including gothic titles, sound used to

build suspense, isolated locations and outfits and

costumes of the characters that portray them as either possessed or evil. So as a group we did not need to

change anything in order to make it look like a horror as

it already did.

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Did the sound work well with the images?

Most of the audience felt as if the sound worked well with the images , for example we used non diegetic sound of a

voice over with the protagonist looking towards the camera as if she’s trying to find out where the sound is coming from. Additionally

the sound of classical music is used t build p suspense and

therefore works well with the images.

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The answers to this question helped me and my group members to improve the editing of our film by, for example adding a sepia

effect on one of the scenes to highlight the flash back, as well as a dissolve in order t emphasise on the fact that

the protagonist is remembering something in

the past.

Did the editing suit the film and make it easy to understand it?