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 -

More Feedback

After doing a screening to other media students and our media teachers we got lots of feedback on things we needed to change or fix, and noticed some ourselves these were as follows:
- Make the dissolve from the shower to the room slower
- Slow down the shot of her doing her lipstick as by the time the audience understand what's happening, the shot's gone
- Move the title 'music by...', and lower all the titles
- Increase the sound on some of the conversation shots
- Change the font of the titles either the colour, remove the glow around them, or completely change the font as it looks too 'studenty'
- See if we can do anything about when she lights the candle to make it less obvious
- Change the dialogue when she says 'your late...for dinner'
- 'LOVE YOU' is too light
- Laura's shots looked like they had a yellowy tint

We went back to our sequence and made most of these changes. We removed the red glow around the font and think this makes it look a lot more proffessional, we also changed the colour so it has a slight grey tint to it which makes the font look less harsh. We also slowed down the lipstick shot and think that now its easier for the audience to see what she's doing. We also changed around a lot of the titles.

When we next have the opportunity to edit we need to fix:
- Sound levels in the conversation
- The shots of Laura lighting the candle
- Tighter cuts in the conversation

After fixing these issues we will do another screening and see if there is anything else that can be changed.

Continued...
We had the opportunity to edit for a bit today (Monday 12th) and have realised that we need to rerecord some of Laura's dialogue, when she says 'it's almost time for dinner'. Although initially we had wanted a pause between 'time' and 'for dinner' we have realised that it didn't really work and although we have edited it, we think that it will work better if we rerecord it.

- Mel, for the group -

More Feedback

Today we got some more useful feedback from Miss Blackborow which means that we need to change quite a lot of things in our sequence. She has said to:

- make the first fade-up to house longer
- get rid of the fade-down from house
- make the cross-disslove to shower bigger
- change the font of the credits to make it more curlier
- take the picking up photoframe shot and clock shot out because they are too boring and not subtle enough
- replace these shots by the lipstick popping shot
- move the tying up dress shot to later on in the sequence so it makes more sense
- move the 'based on a novel...by Sandy Winters' down slightly
- the final title distacts th audience from the knife so maybe we could fade to black and then have the title come on.

We now have lunchtime and after school to work on these changes and i think it will really help to improve our sequence. We may even have time for a screening today which will be helpful!

-by Aarti for the group

Editing

Over the last few days, as Alice and Aarti have said, we have been getting feedback from both Miss Thrasher and Mrs Blackborow as well as feedback from other media students. The feedback that we recieved was as followed:
- The clock ticking is too loud
- Sort out the music so that the sequence ends at the right point with the music
- Sort out some of the sound, including Barney's voice being out of synch and making the ring of the phone slightly longer.
- Make some of the cuts tighter
We fixed all the issues that we had and have also deleted the shots where she puts her lipstick on as we felt that that part of the sequence looked bad and would ruin our sequence.
We are going to have a screening to see what other students that we haven't asked think and also to see how it looks on a big screen, this should help us see any major issues that we haven't noticed before.

- Mel, for the group -

BLK feedback

do hope the test went well girls - looking forward to seeing the footage :-)

can we have a group photo please? ...
oh one's just gone up, that was quick!

BLK feedback

I've got Fatal Attraction on dvd if you want to borrow it - it's great!