Post-Production: Audience Feedback.

Audience feedback is the comments that the audience give after seeing a movie. This can be good or bad, and can sometimes include positive criticism on what could have been better. Audience feedback is important because then the movie producers will know what was good about their movie, and what needs to be improved upon if they consider making another movie of the same genre, or even a sequel to the movie that has been viewed.

We screened our thriller to a focus group firstly. This was beneficial, because we found out people’s views on out film, and how things could be improved before screening it to the rest of the public.

 

 

 

 

Ruth aged 18 said “I liked the editing effects of the torture scene. It made it look more realistic and scary.”

This was beneficial because we realised that we had used our editing techniques effectively.

Kinga aged 18 said “The acting was really believable which made it more creepy.”

This was beneficial because it showed us that we had done well in picking actors that are/were drama students, so they would give us the best results.

Brandon aged 18 said “The setting was so scary!”

This was also beneficial because we knew we had got the desired emotion out of the audience, and we had done it through and eerie setting.

 

 

Jake aged 18 said “The soundtrack could have been louder in the build up to the scarier parts.”

This helped us to understand that the soundtrack needed to actually scare the audience by making the soundtrack go from such a high volume to literally nothing when the action kicks in.

Amy aged 18 said “Sometimes the lighting was a bit too dark to see clearly.”

From this, we learnt that when low key lighting is used, it needs to be really low, but not low enough to make the scene hard to see.

 

From receiving the feedback, I feel that overall we have created a successful thriller.  This is because we followed most of the generic conventions of a typical thriller,  and we received good feedback on most of these.