part 6 Audience feedback

Part 6-Audience Feedback Video

In class we watched our opening's and got to find out what the other groups opinions were of ours and what was good/bad, if they could work out what the narrative was what we could improve, what stood out/key scenes and what we could of made better.
We asked specific questions which allowed us to get specific pointers on our work.

Analysis of our work from the other groups:
Strengths:
`Graphics were different'
` the sounds were sad worked well'
`Voice over was effective and helped people understand what was going on'
`Liked the title of `open verdict' at the end'
`Fades in between each of the shots'
`Transitions from current time to flashback using the white out to fade in was good'
`The labels on the items was a good idea'
`Music fitted in well'
`Good use if camera Angles and a range of shots'
Weaknesses:
`Graphics were difficult to see, kind of blurry and hard to read'
`The titles were very small in some shots and unclear as to what they said'
`The voice over was sometimes unclear and could her the breathing and noise of the microphone which was to loud'
Explanation and Understanding of the narrative:
`Very clear to the audience'
`They were a happy couple at some point,something happened he died then she died then came back to life'
`He killed himself and was paranoid about something'
What sub genre was it:
`romantic thriller'
What was original:
`The fact we could hear the voice over of the dead body'
`The way you Incorporated your title sequence in the opening having written by on jack Daniels bottle and on the others was original'
` I liked the effect of saturation as it showed the couple were happy and loved up'
What could be improved:
`The lighting making it clearer as there were points were it was too dark'
`Titles being zoomed or using extreme close up'
`Shots ab it more realistic were Jamie has the knife maybe dropping it instead of in his hand as he is meant to be dead'
`Making the acting less dramatic and rearranged better'
`titles making them clearer'
What was the key scene:
`Her waking up as we expect them both to be dead which shocks the audience'
`When she gets up and grabs his arm'
`The voice over even though its not a scene it was vital'
` The flashback reestablished what was going on'










Target audience/audience feedback
The audience feed back was positive and we found that most people said `voice over was effective and helped to understand what was going on'.This we agreed with as the voice over is big part of understanding the narrative and why the characters have ended up there and the male characters change psychological.

From these videos we were able to get opinions from our target audience.This we can use to compare with our target audience research from our treatments e.g what are Target Audience we wanted and if they would like it and the research we did to find out what sort of thriller people enjoyed watching e.g the questionnaires on survey monkey.

When looking at the target audience we went for I feel we did reach out to our target audience as we were given positive comments from our target audience such as`Voice over was effective and helped people understand what was going on' that the narrative were clear the voice over worked well and the story was easy to understand.We included a couple as we thought people would be able to relate and enjoy watching a relationship fall apart as it is interesting to see were the relationship went wrong.
The elements we were worried about getting across to the audience were the voice over and narrative however from the audience feedback they though it was easily relatable the narrative was clear and could tell what was going on.They also picked out how the voice over was a key part in understanding the character and how he felt about there relationship.

Overall we were given good feedback from the audience and we were successful in making our opening effective in our use of camera angles such as close ups of the characters faces this creates suspense and to show emotion.We used voice over to narrate to the audience and create questions Making the audience want to find out what is going to or has happened to those characters. and contrasting the characters relationship.The improvements we were given also helped us to understand how we would do things differently and maybe changing shots, lighting etc.

We appealed to our target audience as wide range of ages were able to view our opening and give us different views on what could of been improved, as well as having positive aspects which were widely recognised by everyone who viewed it. The audience appeal was important for all stages of planning our narrative and characters.We wanted our characters to be able to relate to the audience e.g using two students.Overall our target audience was important in the choices we made e.g the narrative, plot, location and actors. We wanted to be sure that the story and characters we choose would appeal to our target audience as well as including conventions of a thriller such as red Herring which was a vital element of our opening sequence.