On thursday 25th November we screened our rough edit of our thriller to other media and college students. We hope to gain constructive criticism as well as some positive feedback from this session so we can make our final edit the best it can be.
Here are the feedback questions that were handed out to viewers:
What did you think was going on during the film?
What do you think the rest of the story might be?
What are your thoughts on the characters? (whether you liked them, your interpretation of them)
Do you think the music was appropriate for what was happening in the film?
What was your favourite aspect of the film?
What improvements do you think we could make to the film?
The feedback we got was mainly positive, the criticims were mostly about the length of the first few shots panning round the woods... People seemed to think it was too long and started to get bored.. We hope to overcome this by putting our credits/title at this point, not at the end of the film which was where we originally planned to have it.
People also liked the part where Rhys is looking around and seeing the gas mask wearing figure everywhere. Some people thought that there was supposed to be many different gas mask figures surrounding Rhys and did not understand that the figure is a figment of Rhys' imagination. This is the effect we were trying to achieve as the viewer would then think that the gas mask figure is real and it would be a good twist to the story when they find out that she is merely a hallucination.
It was also good to watch the openings that the other groups in our class had created. We can take inspiration from aspects of their openings that we like such as transitions and effects and include them in our final edit.
What do you think the rest of the story might be?
What are your thoughts on the characters? (whether you liked them, your interpretation of them)
Do you think the music was appropriate for what was happening in the film?
What was your favourite aspect of the film?
What improvements do you think we could make to the film?
The feedback we got was mainly positive, the criticims were mostly about the length of the first few shots panning round the woods... People seemed to think it was too long and started to get bored.. We hope to overcome this by putting our credits/title at this point, not at the end of the film which was where we originally planned to have it.
People also liked the part where Rhys is looking around and seeing the gas mask wearing figure everywhere. Some people thought that there was supposed to be many different gas mask figures surrounding Rhys and did not understand that the figure is a figment of Rhys' imagination. This is the effect we were trying to achieve as the viewer would then think that the gas mask figure is real and it would be a good twist to the story when they find out that she is merely a hallucination.
It was also good to watch the openings that the other groups in our class had created. We can take inspiration from aspects of their openings that we like such as transitions and effects and include them in our final edit.
It is good to see that this was a useful exercise.
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