Section 11- audience feedback

Audience feedback

As it is important to collect audience research to make a satisfying film to a target audience, it is as equally important to collect audience feedback. Hopefully this feedback will allow me and my group members to understand how to amend problems and see what worked well within our thriller film.

During our feedback one of the first comments that were made about our media product was that the music played throughout the sequence made the audience feel tense and gave the clip more tension. This is positive feedback as one of the main conventions of a thriller films is music that provides suspense. Also this comments means that we have been following the information that we were given through our audience research, this is as our research we found that one of the main things that the audience expected from our media product was tension and suspense.

Another comment made about the music we used in this sequence was that it worked well with the effects we placed on the opening title of the film. This means that we were combining both the tension of the music and adding more tension with the title effects. We were given a comment “it made me jump” again this is a good thing as one of the things that the audience research found that the audience liked about a thriller film was that it was scary. This means that we were satisfying the audience’s wants with our opening sequence.

The direction we gave the actress was described as very good. This is important as this means that we were giving the right emotion across to the audience through the use of our actress. This means that we were able to put across the feeling of neglect and domestic abuse to the audience. This was also one thing that the audience wanted to see during our audience research. The feel of neglect was also put across using the prop of an old scruffy teddy bear. This prop was described as relevant, meaning that we did put across that feeling of neglect to the audience successfully.

Negative feedback is as important as the positive, but the only negative feedback we received was that there weren’t a lot of credits. We only had the title of the film in the beginning sequence as we felt that this needed to stand out as the most important thing of the sequence as it was the title of the film. This also made that audience ask questions about what the title of the film meant, making them want to watch the film to have their questions answered.