Audience Feedback- Miss Georgiou

Audience feedback-

After finishing our thriller, as a class we showed and reviewed eachothers work. As the age group of our class are also, our target audience age range; the feedback we were given was from who our film was aimed at meaning the feedback was relevant and concise. Audience feedback is important to a production as it enables us as the producers, to take into consideration what has been said and make improvements and changes to fit our audiences needs and expectations. This overall makes our thriller better as it reaches out to our target audience in a positive way.

We receieved our audience feedback from our target audience by showing a screening of our production to the selected group and asking them to fill in a short survey consiting of releveant questions all based on our film. The questions we ones such as providing a level of which they thought out peice desserved, what we did well and what we should focus on improving. This feedback would then benefit our production and in general the industry, as we could see clearly what we needed to take action on and also identify if there was any common errors from multiple people. This would mean that it is an outstanding error and would show us the matter of importance in which this needs to be taken care of.

Part of the constricutive criticism we receieved noted that we should provide a clearer narrative. This was due to some of our audience not being able to clearly understand what is exactly going on. This then therefore led to them loosing and lacking intrest within our film, which provides an issue for us in which we need to improve. Another peice of cristicism we were given was that our camera shots at times were too shaky. This was due to us using handheld, and not using the tripod as much as we could. By idenitfiying how we can improve it makes it easier for us as a group to go carry out the improvements our audience would like us to make. We realised that this went hand in hand with the unclear narrative as the shakiness can confuse our audience, thus making the narrative unclear. A final peice of critiscim we receieved was our use of dialogue being overly used. The audience felt that our over use of dialogue took away from the suspense we were trying to create so, we therefore should improve on reducing it.

Part of the positive feedback we recieved consisted of our audience saying that they felt although our narrative was confusing that overall we obtained a really intresting storyline. This was good for us to hear as we felt that our audience was generally intrested in our thriller which, is what we always aimed to do. Another peiece of positive feedback we recieved was our use of setting. We used an unusal setting of a train which meant that we could relate to our audience. Our audience felt that this was unique and had seen previous films do this but, not quite in the same way we had. All the positive feedback made us as a group take note of how our hard work had paid off, and motivated us to continue.

Overall, we followed the brief of making our 2 minute thriller clip in a series of ways. We stuck  to the timing of the film, and also included many thriller conventions such as; the use of iconography. By sticking to the brief and following it correctly, we knew we were meeting the requirements and providing a peiece that fitted the expectations.