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

Questionnaire

Here are some questions for the questionnaire:
- Your details (This will be only their age and gender, so that they are as honest as possible)
- Did you enjoy it?
- Did it make sense?
- What did you enjoy the most? (with options given)
- What did you enjoy the least? (with options given)
- Can you suggest any improvements?
- Would you be interested in seeing the film?
- What genre do you think the film is?
- Does it remind you of any films you've seen? (If yes, which film/s)
- Give it a score from 1-10

Posted by Mel, for the group

Audience Feedback

Seeing as we have now completely finished our production =) it is time to get audience feedback. Today in class Miss Blackborow gave us some tips on things we could do and I decided to blog this so we can later reflect on the things we did or didn’t do.

It is obvious that we will need to hold a Screening Session before which we need to:

- clarify as a group who exactly we want as our audience
- create a suitable questionnaire to record the feedback
- decide whether we are going to book the media room for our screening and if so get in touch with Miss Blackborow asap
- decided whether we are going to hold screenings at home aswell
- decide on how many people we are going to invite

On the day of the Screening we need to:

- arrive ten to fifteen minutes earlier than everyone else
- Set up the classroom (move tables, arrange chairs, shut curtains, lights etc.)
- Test out sequence to see if the DVD works
- Check the volume

During the Session the three of us need to take up either of the following roles:

The Welcoming Person who:
- stands at the entrance showing people where to go and inviting them in
- hands out the questionnaires

The Person who gives the Briefing:
-Thanks all for coming
-explains what we expect from our audience–constructive feedback about the film (what works and what could be better)
- Speaks confidently in a friendly manner

The Technological Person who:
- makes sure the screen is on
- makes sure the DVD is ready to play
- basically presses ‘play’ and ‘stop’


We have already decided to have a group meeting today at 12.30 so we can start discussing all these issues so we are quite organised, and we will definitely be ready for our screening session by next week!

by Aarti for the group

Update:
We have now got a draft of questions for the questionnaire which I will post once I've typed it up. We have also decided that Aarti will be the 'Welcoming person', Alice will be the 'Briefing person' and I will be the 'Technical person', in our screening which has been booked for Wednesday 21st.

- Mel, for the group -