Audience Feedback

Today we had our audience screening, and a lot more people than we expected turned up which was really useful. This was most likely due to the group on facebook advertising our screening, and the notice given to year eleven media students about the screening. Using our questionnaires we were able to find out what worked and what didn't work in our sequence.

We found that:
15 Year Olds
- Didn't like the dialogue
- Liked the set

16 Year Olds
- Didn't like the dialogue
- Liked the music

17 Year Olds
- Didn't like the dialogue
- Liked the music and characters

Males:
- Said they would watch the rest of the film
- Most wanted dialogue to be improved
- Gave it 7-8/10

Females:
- Most said they would watch it again, except two saying they didn't watch the genre, and one saying she felt it would be too predictable
- Gave it 9/10 (with a few 8's)

Overall:
We can see that the music was the most enjoyed aspect of our sequence, whereas the dialogue was the least liked. This suggests that if we were to go back and change the opening sequence this would be something to change. We had always planned for the film to target both genders and although both genders did enjoy it, we can see from our questionnaires that it was preferred by the female viewers.

Planning For Our Screening

I've now typed up the questionnaire in preperation for our audience screening and the questions are on the group blog. Alice has been telling people from our target audience about our screening and so we should have a good number of people coming to see our opening, which will be really useful to see if we have targeted the T.A. successfully as we'll get lots of feedback. Hopefully, as well as doing a questionnaire, some people will be willing to talk to us in more depth about the sequence.

End of Editing

Yesterday, we finished editing our sequence and I'm really happy with the results, however we did have to change Laura's dialogue and our production name.
The production name has changed from 'Kadam' to 'Perspective', as 'Kadam' was boring and was not reflective of what our company is about.
Our company, 'Perspective' would make films to reflect different lives and cultures, for example, different ethnicities, people with mental illness, homeless people etc, and the name 'Perspective' reflects this. The company also reflects us as a group, as as a group we are all different ethnicities and have different interests, which would all be reflected in the films our company would make.

Audience Feedback
We've had a lot of feedback during the project from other media students and teachers, but we need to get feedback from our target audience., mainly people who are not media students. This will be extremely useful in knowing whether we have actually attracted our target audience. We plan to do this by doing a film screening which will take place on Wednesday 21st. We will ask the T.A to fill out questionnaires and will also ask a few to stay behind so that we can have a more in depth discussion with them about the sequence. We drafted the questions at lunch and I will type them up and post them on group blog. We hope to create a group on facebook to advertise the screening, and Alice will also tell people about the screening in the common room. We will each also hold a screening at home with close friends/family. Doing this will ensure that we get the best possible feedback from our T.A. (young adults interested in thrillers). On the day, I will be in charge of the technical side of things, which is basically ensuring everything is ready and pressing 'play', Alice will brief everyone before we play the sequence and Aarti will welcome everyone and ensure they know where they're going.

Editing This Week

This week was our first week back from the holidays and we've got so much done.
As shown on our group blog we've had lots of feedback and have used it to ensure our sequence is the best it can be. I was lucky to have loads of free periods on Thursday, which meant I had around 6 hours to work on the sequence, including the 2+ hours that Aarti and Alice were also editing with me. We got as much feedback we could from both the teachers and other students. We worked on the feedback we received and tried to make our sequence look as good as possible, including trying to sort out lighting issues we had.
On Friday we worked on tighting up the sequence and also got more feedback. This meant we were working on the feedback we received until our screening, when we received even more feedback. This was really useful as seeing our sequence on a big screen made us notice things we hadn't in the editing suite. It also meant that we got lots of feedback from people who hadn't seen the sequence before. As we've seen the sequence so many times, its hard to notice small issues that we've gotten used to so it's been really helpful to get lots of feedback from teachers and other students.

BLK feedback

Excellent analysis and reflections on your horror shot - super work Mel!

Great films chosen as faves; looking forward to seeing your chosen clips too (why not analyse THE Harry met Sally scene!!)

Can you add some film websites to your links list?

THR Feedback

Loving the dark feel Mel! Your work is great - detailed and focused on technical codes and effects. Well done.