Audience feedback

Once we had made the final edits on our opening sequence we showed it to people include some students in our class, these people gave us some audience feedback on our sequence.

From the feedback we found that it was our older audience members that enjoyed our sequence over the younger audience, they also understood the choices we had made but some of the younger, teenage audiences didn't see this as much.

Our sequence was originally made for an older audience but we still took the opinions of the younger audience into account.

These were the most popular praises: our sequence was described as "very artistic" and the audience "enjoyed the lighting choices" they also said that "the use of music was very effective and increased the tension (which) followed the conventions of a thriller genre." Although people did like these things about our film they did find criticisms some of them being "too much silence, bring the music in sooner as it is too silent". Some also mentioned that the narrative is too hard to figure out as not much has been given away, as we can see where they are coming from by saying this we felt that the lack of narrative at the start of the film was imperative for the film to have a greater effect, and we feel that the lack of narrative will make the audience to want to watch on and see what is happening. Due to this we decided to extend the opening to add some context to the sequence, due to technological problems this wasn't added to our final edit of the sequence.

We took all comments into account. We edited some of our sequence because the feedback highlighted some problems with the film that we had not noticed. We did bring in our soundtrack sooner and it gave the entire sequence a different feel and seemed to flow much better and also more narrative was given through the use of this music, as well as having a greater impact on the audience, as there was not a long silence.

We also changed the ending of the sequence to make it flow better and look more like a opening sequence rather than an trailer as we felt that the original ending gave this effect.