Audience Feedback

Today our film opening was finally shown to the class, but before they saw it we gave them all pieces of paper which had questions on. After watching the opening they answered the questions and then handed us back the questionnaires. They looked like this:

Many of the questions required you to rate things out of 10, such as technical things like lighting and more practical things such as acting. I counted all of the research sheets up and found out the average result for each of them.

Camera Shots-6................Music- 7/8
Cuts/Transitions- 7/8.......Acting- 7
Lighting- 6.......................Locations- 8

There were a lot of spoken comments from students and teachers about what things could be improved and also what should be kept the same:

Positive Comments:

• The transitions felt natural and helped the flow of the scenes better. They did not look too sudden or dramatic.


• The title of the film was good, as it could mean many things because of its ambiguity. The font was also used well as it fit in with the theme.
  
• It was good the way the music was edited to stop when Freddie pretended to turn off the TV. This made it clear that it was diagetic.


• The Mad Apple logo was very well made and fit in with the opening well.

Negative Comments:

• Through the use of the lighting, the camera shots and the music, it felt too much like a thriller.


• The establishing shot of the house was zoomed in a bit weirdly.


• Some shots like the one with Freddie lasted a bit too long.
  
• The titles need to be consistent with the font instead of being in different styles.


• The music wasn't quiet and moody, but instead was too upbeat and dramatic.


• It wasn't apparent that the music was non-diagetic at the beggining, and it could have been muffled slightly.

Overall, our first version of this film got mostly positive reviews and many people thought that on a technical level our film achieved many standards, however they thought that in terms of traditional genre conventions, our film could have made it more clear as a social realist film.