Feedback

After putting the film together and in a sense completing a draft copy we looked at areas for improvement...

The feedback would allow us to see what our target audience felt about our production, we had hoped that this would reflect whether our aims and objective had been met.

By putting together a focus group (as previously mentioned in my blog) it would allow our target audience to give detailed and relevant feedback needed for improvement and adjustment.

Positive feedack recieved consisted of the following:

-"Music really suited the film and helped with the general flow"
-"Good use of sound and effects throughout the film, includng acting"
-"Good music, edits and continuity"
-"Really good camera shots - and camera effects used"
-"Cleverly put together and interesting use of contrasting music with flashbacks"

Amousthe positive feedback there were a handful of negative points given, however this was important as it allowed us to improve and make alterations.

-"Transitions needs to be longer between flashbacks"
-"Need more close ups"
-"Cleverly position the music" - "Stop the music when Sophie is running"
-"More distressed image of character i.e. smudged make up"
-"Re-consider the amount of people in your party scene" - There should be more.....
-"Slipping the drug into the drink could be more realistic"
-"More diagestic sound and suspense needed"
-"Unsure whether the music with lyrics takes focus off the main aspects of the film"

Above is the feedback recieved from the focus group and peer assesment. Inevitably the majority of the feedback was negative, though this was important as it allowed the group to improve and focus on changes that needed to be made.

The majortiy of aspects that are peers felt created a negative effect we were able to fix. They were mainly regarding the shots and use of shots used such as adding close ups and reducing the amount of background noticeable which confused the viewer with what they were supposed to be focusing on. Other elemenets consisting of transitions and extending/shortening to make the film flow more evenly. Things like this took a matter of minutes to put right and re-shoot.

Some points however did prove hard to re-construct and change such as are rave scene which was positioned in the drama studio. Of course this is a small area and putting this aside many people were not willing to give up their free time. We therefore made little alteration to this.

We faced the dilema that we were recieving a mound of positive and negative points about different areas of our film from our target audience. This ment we had to decide whether we liked it or not. We looked upon help from our teachers as they are experienced and afterall they are the ones marking it so it was important that we got it right. After much thought and putting into place that our teachers are not our target market we took on board the guidance and decided ourselves.