Audience Feedback

The audience screening was extremely useful and interesting as we were able to receive feedback from a non-media student perspective, which gave us a much better idea of how our film would do, should it be produced.

Here is a summary of our findings:

15year olds:

Liked: the set

Disliked: Dialogue

16 year olds:

Liked: Music

Disliked: Dialogue

17 year olds:

Liked: Music, Characters

Disliked: Dialogue

We can see a common trend in our findings is that most people liked the music but disliked the dialogue so if we were to re-make the opening perhaps the dialogue is one thing that should be revised.

Overall, the males awarded us an average of 8/10 and all said they would watch the rest of the film.

The females gave the sequence an average of 9/10, with a few 7s from people that did not like to watch films in the thriller/horror genre, which is understandable. Both averages show that we successfully managed to target both males and especially the females through our film opening.

A few quotes from our audience:

‘It is set up nicely for the rest of the story’ Male, aged 16

‘It seems very edgy’ Male, aged 17

‘I want to see what happens to the man’ Female, aged 17

A few improvements suggested included:
- Set it at night time
- Make the dinning room look more sinister
- Taking the dialogue out
- Change the title

Overall, however, the feedback we received during the screening was largely positive. This was a great relief for Me, Mel and Alice, as the time and effort we had put into producing it was much appreciated by our audience.

-By Aarti for the group