What have I learned from audience feedback?
4. Importance of feedback
Going under the impression that your film will be fantastic would be ignorant and naive.
We, as the group, have completely immersed ourselves in the project and have very subjective views on the work we have created, it is essential that we received and act upon feedback.
Feedback showed as whether the film had the intended effect and understanding to an audience. If something wasn't clear or interpreted to a way we didn't intend we knew we had to change something about it. We added narration to improve the understanding and make it clear what was happening.
In conclusion, feedback is very important. It allowed us to create a product that can be enjoyed and understood by an audience. Without this feedback, our film would look very different and likely to have been too complicated.
3. Film first draft
We uploaded our film to social networking site Facebook in order to receive feedback.
We received comments such as "needs voice over" "sound effects" and "backing track".
We took these comments into consideration and therefore made ammendments to improve the film and therefore the film would be much more understandable and entertaining for the audience.
2. Initial treatment
We wrote up a draft of our first treatment and the asked others for feedback through questionairre and digital recording. We thought that if it was not understood or found interesting by an auidence then we should alter it.
We used questions that would provoke answers that would deliberately give us answers that could tell whether our film would be a success or not. It gave us insight to what people would be interested in and their expectations, as well as what age restrictions should be.
Filming people gave our research more validity by giving us greater detailed answers and they struck up interesting points to what our idea was comparable to i.e. The Departed
They believed it was correctly claimed as a thriller and that they enjoyed the intensity and twists in them.
1. Success
4 and 5 star reviews are all well and good, but it's the audience that really determines whether the film is a success. That's why we sought after audience feedback, so we could develop our idea.
