Audience Feedback

Audience Feedback

Our group's audience feedback is essential to our thriller film as it can tell us if the thriller that we have made is conventional and a success or a non-conventional thriller film and the audience will not connect to the film. This will also help us to understand what we did wrong and what the target audience would like us to do differently so then they would feel the film is better. This feedback would then help us to make these changes if we ever did it again so the film would be more conventional and would be able to appeal more to the audience and specifically the target audience.

When my group and I discussed where the production of our film should be screened we had many ideas, but we agreed on the thriller film to be screened on youtube. We decided to post it on youtube as our target audience are the main users of the internet and this would therefore lead to many more people seeing and commenting on the thriller film and therefore giving us more comments to go on. We asked each viewer to make a positive and negative comment so we could see what we did right and made the film conventional but at the same time get constructive criticism so we could change what we had to appeal to the audience more if we did it again. We used youtube as it gave us a wider variety of people to show the thriller film and will give us a lot of comments back, we also used it as the people on youtube don't know who we are making the comments less bias. When people began to comment on our thriller film we then took the two most common positive comments and the two most negative comments and then wrote them down.
These comments were:

• 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.

We then sat down as a group and discussed all four comments both positive and negative, this gave us a great insight into what our target audience think and this showed us what to change if we ever did it again. If we were to do anther thriller film we would have to add in more violence as it created an anti-climax for our audience and they wanted more violence. Also more close up shots should have been used to show the emotions of the main girl character and this would then lead the audience to feel more empathy towards the victim.

Group Meetings

Group Meetings

My group and I have decided to try and have a group meeting every week so we could talk about what progress we had made over the week and to talk about what could be improved within our thriller films. I felt this was good for the group as we could keep up to date with each other and get everyones input so then we could make the most conventional and successful thriller.

All my group worked good together talking over everything we was doing and helping each other out with everything. We all took it in turns to do all the tasks and the duties were also shared out fairly.

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.