Audience Feedback- Miss Georgiou

Audience Feedback

Why is audience feedback essential to carry out?

Audience feedback is essential to carry out because it helps me reflect on the success of my film by receiving positive and constructive comments from an audience that represents my target audience. By screening our production to people who weren't involved in the production, elements of our film may be identified as good or bad that we had different opinions on. Also, audience feedback will help us identify what was good and what was not so good or what was missing. This will help us with future productions.

Where did you screen your production?

Firstly, we uploaded our thriller opening onto YouTube. Then, we screened our production to 6 people who were all aged 16 or 17 during a Media lesson and asked for a brief written response from each viewer. We also received feedback from users from around the world via the comments section on YouTube.

How did YouTube help?

YouTube is a video sharing website and is where we uploaded our thriller film. If we didn't have access to YouTube then we would not have been able to screen our production to an audience. We also received feedback from the comments section of YouTube which enabled us to receive feedback from people who we did not know. This is important because if we know everyone that that gives us feedback, then there may be biased opinions with some comments.

What feedback did you receive? 

We received good feedback as well as constructive criticisms which is a good thing because we knew that our production wasn't flawless, so we could see what people didn't like or did like. One person said that the camera quality was not good enough which is a fair point to make, but because we only made the opening to the film, we did not feel that it was necessary to purchase a superior camera. This was because we were on a small budget. If we were to make the whole film, then we would have bought ,or loaned, a camera of better quality.

Another criticism of my film was that if we were to make the whole film, then it would be too short because there is a murder at the start of the film and that there would be no meaning for the rest of the film. However, they did not understand that if we were to make the rest of the film, we would use the beginning as the ending and the film would consist of what happened prior to that scene to solve the enigma.

We also received a large amount of good feedback. One person said that they were impressed with the different camera shots we used for the murder scene which was something my group had already recognised as a strong positive of our production.

Reflection

If I was going to create another thriller opening, then I would keep a large proportion of what we did the same as I feel that it was a successful production. I would only make minor adjustments such as filming each scene multiple times so that we would be able to choose what scene had the best lighting, sound and if there were any human errors involved.

I would also check the weather prior to filming because we had to film on a Sunday rather than the Saturday because of heavy rain which created a background noise and got the camera lens wet. This required good improvisation skills that we wouldn't have had to use if we planned what days we were going to film on.