Audience Feedback

Audience feedback is important to a production, both positive and negative; as this allows various improvements, as well as seeing any intentional elements that were included in the production amazed the audience. Such as using good forms of cinematography such as close ups to get many and good details of a characters expression, the audience may comment saying they enjoyed seeing how the characters reacted to parts within the scene and being able to see how scared they were for example.

For my completed production, a small focus group was gathered who were given a simple questionaire which contained two collums in a simple table; Negative and positive, and were gathered in a room for screening of multiple productions that have been completed and ready for viewing, this includes my completed production as well.
The focus group, by using the questionaire, are simply going to feedback at least three points for what they enjoyed and thought was good (a positive) and what they belived required improvement on or did not fully understand. (negative)

The feedback that will be collected from these questionaires and the focus group will be of great value towards the production as it will allow us to get a full description and experience from the audiences side, the production who it is directed to, if we can get any feedback in example of say; using more close ups if a character appears stressed in a certain scene so they can comfirm and witness how stressed the character is. Then we can improve by using that feedback and going back to the editing phase, by using editing software we can make the screen zoom in rather than re-shoot the whole scene. It will also benefit future audiences, allowing them to see more positives than what the first audience had to watch and then feedback was given out on what to improve.

Here are some positives and negatives we recieved from our focus group after our production was screened.

Positives recieved;
- Good sound use, sound and footage went well together (Feedback from Christopher), soundtrack throughout the clip gave it a creepy atmosphere. (Adam)
- Transitions between the scenes were smooth and the quick dissolve was a nice effect. (Feedback from John)
- Really enjoyed the filter effects and on-screen effects used within the scenes, such as the white light strobe effect where the screen flickers. (Chris)

Negatives recieved;
- The narrative, as interesting as it is, needs to be a bit more clearer for me as an audience member to understand what is really going on. (Aaron)
- Dispite the good use of cinematography, I believe there should have been more uses of it such as more variation in different camera angles, pannings and zoom ins, etc. (Ben)
- At one point the actor at the "rocking" scene was smiling slightly. (Ben)

Overall, The good and bad feedback will allow me to focus back on the production and make certain changes required that has been pointed out in the feedback, such as making the narrative more clearer, etc.
I also believe that I have followed the aims of the brief by attending and recording feedback from the focus group by screening our production and then handing questionaires to a small audience who have agreed to watch and comment upon our seeing our two minute production.