Audience Feedback

(Audience feedback post on the group blog)

 

 

After showing our first draft to the class we got some feedback and suggestions on how to improve our opening sequence. I also showed our sequence to a non-media student so that the edits would not be as noticeable and she would concentrate more on the story and whether it made sense to someone that didn't know what the story was. The feedback back we got was:

The packing shot at the beginning of the sequence is to long and needs to be cut down into several smaller shots to make a simple task more interesting to watch.

The ending was to sudden and ruined the suspense that had been created by the stalker suddenly appearing and killing the main character. It was also commented that the actor didn't have the face of a murderer making the scene less intense.

The killer/stalker should be added subtly to more shots to show that someone is following the protagonist but not in every scene as there still had to be an element of surprise when the figure did show up.

The shot of the protagonist getting grabbed but when she frees herself no-one is there was liked as it showed the audience what genre the film would be and would know what to expect.

Although it was mentioned in the feedback I noticed that the lighting was changing in the outdoor scenes so we will have to find a way to edit the lighting.

The scene with the static computers was also liked as although it was a ordinary classroom we had altered it to match the genre and create suspense. The high angled shot in this scene was also liked as it set the scene of the classroom and was a new shot that that been put into the sequence.

The non-media student said that the story was good and the voice-over helped her understand what was going on exactly. She liked the grabbing and static room scene and commented that she did not notice any of the edits which shows that our continuity editing was well done.

Since the feedback was given we have fixed many of the issues such as the ending and the packing shots as they have been re-filmed and edited into our sequence. All that needs to be done now is the last few pieces of editing and adding in the credits.