Audience Feedback - Miss Georgiou

Audience feedback is important to a production because the audience is who you were creating the film for and by following a process of answering the facts of what they liked and dislikes helps the group improve on certain aspects.  The fact that it’s coming from an audience ensures that the film will be more successful as producers have to take their comments on board.  It’s an opportunity to make it better for the audience before it officially releases onto the screen meaning it will be more successful than it could have initially been.

We received audience feedback from doing a presentation explaining the ideas we have and the narrative and reasons for choosing certain elements in the film.  We also had to explain how we got the idea and how we did it.  We held a screening of our rough cut which we had created so far.  The audience gave us feedback including what went well and what could be done better in order for it to be more successful.  We received constructive criticism and focused on the things we could do in order for it to be better within the time we had.

During the screening, the audience had a questionnaire to answer.  The questionnaire consisted of three sections including of how many marks they thought the opening sequence would be marked if it was the full version.  Another section was for the positive comments and the next section was for constructive criticism to in order to make our sequence better. 
The feedback received benefited our production because it meant we could instantly improve on the things which we need to do in order to make our opening sequence better for the audience.  It would benefit the industry because improving our film would mean that it would get more successful therefore benefiting the industry.

One positive comment was on effect of Low Key Lighting.  The audience thought that the low key light was visually appealing according for audience.  Another point why they liked the effect of low key lighting as it is conventional to the thriller genre and the fact that if high key lighting was involved then it would have a completely different effect on the audience.                    


Another positive comment was about the conventional characters because they are is conventional in the thriller genre.  It is conventional in the thriller genre to have a villain and a victim.  The fact that we included these two characters meant that it was familiar to the audience when it was shown.

One constructive comment would be that we didn't have sound throughout.  The reason for this would be we hadn't quite finished the sequence and we were still in the process of choosing music that was appropriate for a thriller.  Another point, would be that if the final media product had certain clips which had no sound meant that it seemed very unprofessional or amateur and it just didn't feel right for the audience.

A second constructive comment would be that we could've used more or a range of camera shots considering cinematography.  This would be because there wasn't really a range of cinematography as there was POV shots of the villain’s point of view.  We could have included close ups of the knife and the shadow making the movement of the knife.  At this point we were short of time and couldn't film it in time as well as getting it edited.  I think the audience commented on the cinematography because a range of cinematography is able to create a good effect on the audience according to different camera shots.

Overall, I believe we have followed the aims of creating the thriller from learning about the different elements of the thriller genre including cinematography, sound, mise-en-scene and editing. Without learning about these elements I wouldn't have been able to create a successful thriller film.