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.