Feedback

Before loading our final opening to our thriller, we gained feedback, asking a variety of people. We asked further media students, as well as students not related to this course, parents/relatives and other adults who were willing to watch. This ensured we varied the audience, however, we did stick to persons over the age of 15, realising that this was the audience we were basing our thriller on. We asked them all if they would kindly write a review on a piece of paper we provided, including any improvements they believe we should make.
The feedback was mainly positive, although some suggestions were put forward.

'the storyline is good and i think the location is very effective'

'i like the phone scene particularly and how you have cut back and forth from the characters when this is happening. i also realised how you kept the music of the phone ringing consistent and flowing even though a cut was performed in between this, well done'

'i really liked it. the sound was good and followed with the clips efficiently however, the bit with John searching the house is a bit to long and would be a little better if it was shortened.'

'the lighting was really good as we found it difficult to make our characters visible when filming outside in the dark as well as you have done'

'the fast cutting is good and i like the costumes the characters are in. The flash backs could have been made more obvious that these are what they are maybe as i got a little confused but really good otherwise'

'i like the fact that you have kept some sound as well as the music so you can hear you walking out the house and stuff. I also like how you have the girl in er pajamas and the storyline and the weapons used are realistic.'

'well, i would really like to see what happens next. Its certainly thrilling'

'dead good. the text could be made more effective though perhaps, using a different font for example as it is not half as scary as the rest of your film'

'i love the use of slow motion in this, especially the bit with you walking with the bat, very well done, this is the best bit.'

After watching this we also found that a lot of the audience questioned us about what was going to happen next such as 'will she kill again?', 'does she get caught?', 'does she realise she's done it and hind the body or just leave it?', 'how does she get away will it?' We were very pleased with this as it proved that the audience wanted to carry on watching ensuring us that we had done something right and effected the audience. When presenting this to people outside of school, we also received a lot of disappointment at the fact that it was so short receiving comments like 'is that it?' as they did not realise this was only an opening to a thriller. This also shows that they would be willing to watch on and interested in what was happening.

looking at the criticism we also aimed to improve this where necessary and take into account their ideas. We shortened the clip of the house being searched by John, cutting out bits of where he was on the room that we could not see, ensuring that it does not drag on for to long. We also dimmed the colour of the flash backs more than we had originally done.