Audience feedback- Miss Georgiou

Explain why audience feedback is important to a production?

Audience feedback is an important part of the production of a film, as it allows the film makers to alter the film before they release it to the public, if they need too. The audience feedback is important as it would be the feedback that they would get once the film is released on a larger scale which could make the film a flop. So once the feedback is recived the film makers change the parts that the audience didn't like, to prevent negative reviews for something easy to change.

How did you receive audience feedback from your target audience?

As a class we all reviewed each others opening scene, so we had enough feedback on our opening scene to make worthwhile changes on our opening scene if that’s what the audience wanted. We showed the audience a slideshow that had the basic ideas of the narrative and characters, so the audience had an idea as to what it was about, and then we showed them the opening sequence.

How would this feedback benefit your production and the industry?

The feedback will be very valuable to our production, as it shows us the things that are easy to change that will make the audience enjoy the film even more, this is a positive thing for us as it makes our film better than it would have been. The feedback from audiences can benefit the industry as it might prevent the film from not making any money in the box office, as the feedback allows the film producers to change aspects of the film that the audience don’t like. The industry also benefit from the audience feedback as it shows them what trends in the film industry there are and what films are popular at the moment so the industry can produce more films that are more likely to be successful.

Constructive Comments made by Groups and how used the comments to improve our film.

'Narrative not clear', Some of our audience stated that the narrative wasn’t clear, this is a big problem, and some of our group noticed this too. so to make the narrative clearer we added more shots and this helped to make the narrative clearer.

'Shots are too dark', the filters we used over our opening sequence were too dark for some of our audiences, we didn’t realise this problem until we showed our audience. to change this we removed some filters and brightened the shots up so the shots are clearer.

'Sounds too quiet',  For some of our audience the sound for our thriller opening scene wasn’t clear and was too quiet, we noticed this fault as well, so it make the necessary change we edited the sounds so they were at max volume, and we noticed that the editing software we used had placed the sound out of time of our events on screen so we changed that also. This is now fully resolved and the sound is at the best quality it could be.

'Credit size too small', some of our audience stated that the credit size was too small to see so we enlarged the credits and placed some of them so they are clearer to see.