Audience feedback

Feedback is essential as it allows me and my group to reflect on what things we would need to improve and change if we want to do our thriller film again. It also us to understand how and why we would change our thriller film and make it better suited for our target audience. It would also allow my group and i to understand whether we put everything into the thriller film that our target audience wanted to see.

We got the age range for our target audience (we got 40 people to watch the thriller) and showed them the thriller film in a class room, at the end of them watching the thriller film, we let them right down two criticisms and two positive comments for the thriller film. Once the target audience made there comments we took the most common and used them for our criticisms.

We chose to also upload our thriller film on youtube as this allowed us to get instant feedback from the people that weren't at the screening. It also allowed us to get a wider variety of audience feed back and the comments people left wouldn't be biased as they don't know my group and i as individuals.

These are the comments we received:
positive comments:

  - The thriller has a good narrative. It is easy to follow and captures the attention of the audience quickly, ensuring that they are fully enticed into finding out what will happen to the main character as she is pursued by her stalker.
- The over the shoulder shots are effective in showing the scene from the point of view of the attacker, and highlight to the audience how much danger the victim is in. In turn, this is effective in building suspense within the scene.

negative comments:
- The lack of violence took suspense away from the narrative and caused an anti climax.
- The film should have included more close up shots in order to fully highlight and express the feelings of the main character, to enable the audience to empathise with her.

As the target audience pointed out there was a lack of violence which meant that the suspense was taken away from the narrative. If we were to do the thriller film again we would want to try and create more violence but not enough to make it a 18 rated film as this is not the age certificate we wanted for our thriller film, but by putting more violence into he thriller film it will create suspense and it will make the audience be put on the edge of there seats again. Also next time i would want to get a better actress as they may be able to do better close up shots than the current actress, this would allow the audience to get into the thriller more and also it will allow the audience to understand what the victim is going through.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz0ba4q-ZCg

Group meetings.

The purpose of carrying out meetings is to make sure everyone is on task and they are all doing their individual roles within the group. Also it is to make sure that everyone would be happy with the work that we have done, and it was to make sure that everyone had their ideas within our thriller films. By recording our meetings, we were also able to organise the decisions we were making, which made creating the final thriller easier.

In my opinion our group worked well together as we all competed the roles that we needed to and met the deadlines. Everyone in my group did their individual roles to the best of their ability including planning to editing the final thriller film.

Date	Action	To be done by	By whom	Discussions
5th November	Target audience and age certificates	7th November	Group members	We decided on the age of our target audience, which would be 16 to 20, and the age certificate would match this, by aiming for a certification of 15.
8th November	Conventions	9th November	Group members	We decided on the conventions that we would aim to include in our thriller, such as the hidden identity of the attacker and a vulnerable female victim.
9th November	Cinematography and storyboards	12th November	Group members	We decided on the camera shots that we would like to include in the thriller, and the way in which we would organise these, planning them out on our storyboards.
12th November	Mise en scene	15th November	Group members	We decided on the way in which we would create the scene, final locations, costumes, hair and make up, lighting and colour.
15th November	Editing	16th November	Group members	We discussed the way in which we would like to edit the scenes together, and how we would like the final film to appear.
22nd November	Sound	23rd November	Group members	We discussed the sound that we would use in our thriller, and listened to different examples.
29th November	Filming	7th December	Group members	We filmed the scenes for our thriller, making sure that we had filmed every scene.
10th December	Editing	21st December	Group members	As a group we edited all of the scenes that we had filmed, putting them together in the correct order and adding effects to the imagery.
17th December	Editing – sound	21st December	Group members	We imported the sound clips into the software and gave our thriller a soundtrack.
20th December	Editing – credits	21st December	Group members	We discussed the credits, how we wanted them to appear and where we should have them. We then created them and put them in place within our film.