Audience feedback- Miss Georgiou

Audience feedback is essential when we created our thriller as we received many different feedbacks in order to help us improve and discuss what we could do to better our opening sequence.

We firstly showed our opening sequence to the audience as our target audience were ages 15-18 as er rated our film as a 15 certificate. We received feedback through many different ways eg:- screening of our production, focus groups and questionnaires. We put all of our feedback onto an A3 sheet of paper and then Charlotte and I discussed the matters and directed the feedback back into our thriller to hopefully improve it. We put the questionnaire results into charts to show what people thought of our ideas about the opening sequence. This enabled us to see their personal opinions.

The feedback would benefit our production and the industry as it helps us with our personal gain within the opening sequence. Feedback lets the industry know what went well and how the film could be improved if they added certain things into it. It would enable us to get constructive criticism from the feedback which would let us know what we could do next time in order to improve our production, this would also benefit the industry as they can also get feedback on what to improve and what the audience want in the next film.

One of the positive comments we had was good use of low key lighting used with the projecter effect. The audeince felt that this was very conventional to a thriller genre and that they believed that from this they themsleves were in our storyline and the low key lighting created suspense and tension, which made them scared for the next and upcoming scene. The projecter effect they said made the thriller more like a home film, and this is what we wanted our thriller opening scene to feel like. This is because we wanted the audience to feel like they are the killer, and by using Point Of View camera angle we achieved this and made the audience feel like they were part of the film and they said that it made it more effective as everything felt more realistic.

Another possitive comment we had was the characters and the storyline in which they were based. They felt that the charcter (killer) was very realistic and the storyline of him being in a jealous rage and wanting revenge was even more relaistic and the audience felt that they could relate to this. The young girlfriend they thought was conventional to a thriller as she looked the innocent character but infact they loved that we changed it up a bit and that they are led to believe that the young girl is infact the one who kills her current boyfriend. As the characters were around the ages of 15-18 the audience said they felt again, more relaistic features about the thriller as they were more engaged with the opening sequence due to the charcters being the same age as them.

Finally, the last positive feedback we had was our editing. The audience felt that the editing of the credits created a sense of tension and that they were intrigued to know what actors were in the film. We used the colour convention of red and white which contrasted with eachother as we wanted the red to represent the blood of the murders, and white to show the innocence and the purity of the people whose lives are taken. This made the audience think more about the actors and what could then happen in the opening sequence. 


We had  a few constructive comments that we took into consideration. One was the editing of the credits and that they were too small and fast for them to read. We then corrected the problem and made the font of our text much bigger and by making the timing of the text coming in slower, the audience then said it created tension as they got to focus on the actors (in the credits) whislt also focussing on the action on screen.

Secondly, we had another constructive comment on our thriller and this was to do with our mis-en-scene. This was the clothing we used in our thriller. At first we used a mask for the killer and we didnt believe this was realistic to a teenaged genre, and at first the audience didnt think this part was too realstic, yet they thought it was conventional to a thriller. In this sense, we changed the entire clothing of the killer, and made him wear a hooded jacket, big boots and tracksuite bottoms, as this would of been a sterotype of a typical teenaged boy. This then made the audience feel as if they could relate to the murderer and then this added effect to our thriller as they character became more relasitic.

Lastly, our finaly constructive comment was the sound. We had the same sound running throughout the entire sequence and the audience though this didnt create tension or suspense, and made it sound constant withour any dramatic twists. We then took this comment on board and we then were able to put in other sound clips which made the scene sound more dramatic, and then this made the audience feel scared to watch as we made the sound link with the events happening on screen.

We followed the aims of the brief as we made the characters realistic, we kept to the time scheduale and we kept on task throughout. We also kept to the brief as our opening sequence was two minutes long and no longer, and we made the audience feel that this was realistic and conventional to a thriller, and made the audience feel like they were in the film themselves.