Audience Feedback

Explain why audience feedback is important to a production?

Audience feedback is vital to the successful of a production because the audience can comment on what went well within the film and what improvements can be made to improve the overall quality of the film. This not only allows us to know what the audience would like to see, but also gives us a chance to perfect our production before release. It is even better to pull in members of the target audience for feedback because they are who the film is targeted at. They can give you constructive criticism as to what they would like to see. This is highly beneficial because we could then take steps to improve and incorporate elements that they would like to see in a thriller.

How did you recieve audience feedback from your target audience?

To collect our feedback we showed a rough cut of our production to a group of members from our target audience for them to evaluate the work in progress. Once we had shown them our work so far we got them to give feedback on what was good and what could be improved or altered. We did this so that we could make our production better while still in the production stage, we took all the criticism into account and used them to improve our final thriller opening sequence.

How would this feedback benefit your production and the industry?

The feedback that we had gained from our target audience helped out our group immensely when it came to improving our production, it gave us the opportunity to see the negatives of our film that needed improving. It allowed us to make our film the best we possibly could while making sure it appeals to the target audience and meets their wants from the production. As part of the industry, the ability to gain feedback and make improvements based on it makes it more appealing to the target audience since you are taking into account what they would like to see. This could lead to the film being much more successful and making more profit.

Good aspects of our thriller:

1. Hannah Mahoney thought that our editing techniques used were conventional to the thriller genre and that they enhanced the experience as a whole.
2. Joe Waugh said that the setting of our opening sequence was a great choice because it was a dark, isolated area which is conventional to the thriller genre.
3. James Barry said that the portrayal of characters and actors in our production was good. It gave him and other members of our audience an opportunity to relate to the victim, making it scarier and more tense for them.

Bad aspects of our thriller to be improved:

1. Shaun McFarlane said that our use of cinematography was very limited. Suggesting that we should use a wider variety of camera angles.
2. Cara Gaffney criticised our production by saying that the low-key lighting used in the first half of the film was too dark, saying to us that we should make it brighter.
3. Scott Arbuckle said that the length of the build up the shed scene was way too long, he said it wasn't creating much suspense and that we should get into the action a lot quicker without time-wasting.

Our group did well to follow the set task we was given of creating a two minute opening sequence to a thriller. The feedback we recieved played a key role in a allowing us to identify what could be improved so we did. We tried to make our production as professional as possible to ensure that it was as good as possible. This allowed us to make a professional sequence that included many micro-elements, met the set criteria well and that the group was proud of producing.