Evaluation Question 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

The following questions are what we asked our peers while were still in the very early  planning stages. I have documented their response and used their advise during the actual process of creating the film. I feel it is important to gather feedback because it helps to criticize your own work and helps to build on your own ideas.

• What is your name and age?
• What film genres do you tend to watch at home or the cinema?
• Do you like the film idea? (We told them the film storyline before the questionnaire)
• Would you go and watch it at the cinema?
• What would you change about the storyline if there was anything you would want to be different?
• What genre do you think it is?
• And finally would you recommend it to your friends?

The response from our feedback process were mainly positive, most people guessed that our film was a thriller due to the stalker element of our narrative. They also said they would go see our film in the cinema because it would make them jump thus making them scared of our antagonist, and in turn confirming the fear that our antagonist wasn't scary enough for a thriller. It wasn't all positive responses to our films narrative, some people said that because its an ambiguous ending and is very unclear at times, it could be too complicated and may turn some people away from the cinema.

Bellow is the video in which we ask people the questions above. With their answers we have been able to under stand what our audience want from our film thus helping us to accommodate their needs,  much like an actual film production would do. And having examined their responses we have tried to place the keep them in mind while film and during production/editing.

How we tried to convey meaning to our audience 

We have tried very during the filming of our movie to get the meaning across to the audience, but while still trying to make it ambiguous and cause the audience to think. Starting with the antagonist who we wanted to scare our audience, we did this by making him a mysterious character. Having researched into scary thriller antagonists we came to the conclusion that audiences are scared of people/ characters that thy do not understand. An due to this theory we believed our bad character should embody mysterious elements such as the hoodie he always wears to cover his face. 

Another way in which we took audiences into account while filming and planning was the setting. We knew our audience would be teenagers who are 15 and above, and because of this target audience we filmed the majority of our film in places in which they will be familiar. Houses, at college, and round the city are all places where the target audience will be comfortably, this is what makes our film a thriller because its set in places where people feel relaxed, so it takes people out of their comfort zone.

We used audience audience feedback to help create our film to the audiences liking, this is important because it shows companies take interest in their audiences. It could also be used to help benefit the movie financially, this is why we chose a thriller genre during the planning because it's a very popular genre, has a very large target audience.



How the audience reacted to our film, their thoughts and opinions, and how it could be interpreted.

We interviewed people to ask them what they thought of our film and what we could do to make it better in any way. This was during the production of our film, and as such we were able to apply some of their thoughts and ideas to the final product.

An earlier trial of our film proved, for the most part, that while it is confusing it fits the genre, Thriller. Some/most people said that our protagonist and our antagonist are very stereotypical of thriller thus making our film more realistic. Having dressed the characters in the clothes seen in the film, shows we have clear understanding of the thriller genre, and were able to accurately recreate aspects of this genre. I have chosen to reference the clothes because our audience and our characters are very similar in age, class, and mostly in gender, for this reason we have chosen clothes that would resemble that of our target audience.

Something that has become clear throughout the trail process of our film is that our narrative could be more clear and while it is purposely ambiguous it could be argued lacks the ability of a normal story. One aspect of the film audience wanted to have better knowledge of was why is our main character being followed. Although even in the finished product it still isn't clear, we took this on board because along with their advise and while researching thrillers, it has become clear that story is very important this genre. Using Enduring Love another thriller s example of how story is important to this genre, because the film is based on book which has long complicated storyline about a stalker.