Sams Audience Feedback Summary

After finishing our opening sequence, we gathered feedback from 11 people who watched our film. We chose eleven people who we felt were our target audience for our film, which were people of our age we thought would like films from the thriller genre. We posed the same 9 questions to the participants, who responded through different means. We firstly filmed a video response to our questions, where 4 of our participants (Dylan McGough, Nick Whalley, Amy Cunningham and George Quigley) watched our opening sequence and then answered questions about it. Another of our participants wrote down the answers to the questions about the sequence, which we scanned in and is imported onto this blog. I sent the remaining 6 participants the questions and a link to our blog through Facebook messaging, which they filled in and sent back to me. The questions and answers we gathered are below. The written response is embedded onto the blog ‘Written feedback for our final product’.

1. What genre does the sequence belong to and how could you tell this?
· Videoed (4): “Thriller/horror, you can tell because of the type of music used”
· Leah: Thriller as scary music, and showing close up of eyes at the beginning.
· Alicia: Thriller as the flashbacks and the music used.
· Hayley: Flashbacks so thriller
· Chloe: Thriller due to the flashbacks
· Alex: Thriller because of all the flashbacks that happen
· Charlotte: Horror

2. Who were the main characters in the sequence?
· Videoed (4): “Saliah”
· Leah: Saliah
· Alicia: Saliah
· Hayley: Saliah
· Chloe: Saliah
· Alex: Saliah
· Charlotte: The girl on the bridge

3. What details made this clear?
· Videoed (4): “She is the main focus point and her name appeared first”
· Leah: There is more camera time spent on the bridge and the field.
· Alicia: She was focused on more in the field
· Hayley: She was in it for the majority, and after a flashback it would focus back on her
· Chloe: The whole film was based on her
· Alex: The film was made at her point of view, so it made it clear it was her
· Charlotte: Because she is having flashbacks

4. What is happening in the sequence? Is this clear?
· Videoed (4): “She has woken up in a field and keeps getting flashbacks of the night before”
· Leah: She has woken up on a bridge, not knowing where she is and has flashbacks of previous night.
· Alicia: Saliah has woken up in a place she is not familiar to after a night of heavy drinking at party. It seems she may also have been punched as she has a black eye and one of the flashbacks shows her falling to the ground. As she tries to recognise where she is she experiences flash backs.
· Hayley: Saliah has been out at a house party, and drunk too much. She wakes up somewhere she isn't familiar with. She has flashbacks of sections of the party e.g Alicia's moonwalk and LOADS of wine bottles.
· Chloe: She’s like passed out on a bridge, wakes up and has loads of flashbacks, with Alicia’s amazing moonwalk, and quite a lot of alcohol, she has no signal on her phone and walks off somewhere
· Alex: She was partying got drunk then wakes up on a bridge and has flashbacks from the night before
· Charlotte: She is having flashbacks of the party

5. What would make this clearer?
· Videoed (4): “I think it’s quite clear, maybe a clip of how she got there”
· Leah: The flashbacks could have been shorter and more frequent, and Saliah’s make-up could have been more smudged to show she slept on a bridge.
· Alicia: The party scenes could have included Saliah to make it more clear that she was there and what happened to her.
· Hayley: The party scenes could have included Saliah more. When Saliah awoke she could have looked more scruffy like smudged make-up and crazy hair.
· Chloe: If Saliah was in the flashbacks
· Alex: If the main character turned up at the party scene
· Charlotte: Nothing else, it was clear

6. What, out of the sequence, would make you keep watching?
· Videoed (4): “To find out what happened the night before, and the fact she is walking off”
· Leah: Saliah walking off
· Alicia: The flashbacks, as they make you want to see everything at the party which caused her to end up on a bridge!!
· Hayley: The flashbacks were effective. I like how they were frequently shown and also disjointed so you didn't get the full story of the party but enough so you know what's been going on.
· Chloe: The flashbacks- they were fitted in well
· Alex: The flashbacks were good, and put in good places
· Charlotte: To find out how she got to where she is

7. Did the pace of the sequence feel right to you?
· Videoed (4): “Yes”
· Leah: Yes
· Alicia: Yes
· Hayley: Yes it did
· Chloe: Yes
· Alex: Yes
· Charlotte: Yes

8. Do the images work well with the music?
· Videoed (4): “Yes”
· Leah: Yes
· Alicia: Yes
· Hayley: Yes
· Chloe: Yes
· Alex: Yes
· Charlotte: Yes

9. Is it visually interesting? Are the shots interesting?
· Videoed (4): “They are quite interesting shots, shows a lot of different angles; close ups, medium shots and long range shots”
· Leah: Yes, totally
· Alicia: Yes, very well done!
· Hayley: Yes loved it
· Chloe: Yes I enjoyed the final piece it was really good
· Alex: Yes
· Charlotte: Yes

Through carrying out this survey I have found out the points in our film we have succeeded on, and the points which could have been made more precise or clearer. Due the the feedback we got, I feel we successfully established the genre we intended to, as all of our participants answered thriller or horror.
The feedback shows that we also made it clear who the main character in the sequence was, as all answered Saliah who was on the bridge, as the majority of the camera time was spent on her, her name appeared first, and she was having flashbacks.
From carrying out this survey I have found that the audience felt that it was clear what was happening in our opening sequence, however by maybe putting Saliah in the flashbacks, or shortening the flashbacks, may have been clearer.
All of our participants also felt that the overall piece worked well, such as the pace and choice of the music, the different images and locations, as well as saying it was visually interesting.