Audience feedback is important to any group/director about their sequence for a number of reasons. It allows the directors of the sequence to see peoples real opinions of the production, it is useful for knowing what went well, what the audience didn't like about it, and also what to change for next time if you were to make a sequel or second production. Feedback from various members of the audience allows you to gather an insight of what people thought in general about your production.
We recieved various feedback from our potential/actual audiences before and after the film in a number of ways, using questionnaires, vox pops, and also actual youtube comment reviews about our thriller sequence. The questionnaires towards our intended target audience allowed us to see what they prefer in a thriller film, such as weapon used, villains identity and sub-genre of thriller e.g crime, psychological. Our vox pops were used to show visual evidence of this and real-life interviews, which were also posted to youtube. After hearing and taking the comments into account, we then set about making our own thriller sequences in groups, looking to make them as effective as possible and also appeal to the needs of our target audiences after hearing their opinions.
Here we have four youtube comments that are reviews from people who watched our sequence, and these comments were left under the post of our uploaded thriller production.
Looking at the top comment from Kerry Boyne, we can see that she was generally pleased with what she saw and liked our production, giving us credit for our narrative, which in her opinion made the sequence "interesting and engaging" which meant we succesfully were able to draw her into the plot and the sequence itself. Another positive to take from this comment that our low-key lighting used throughout was pretty effective as it built tension. Kerry believed that we could have maybe left the titles up longer so that they were easier to read and that also a darker filter should've been used during the suicide scene to further set the tone. I believe overall this was a very positive comment, Kerry clearly enjoyed our sequence, and if out of two constructive comments she could only find the timing of titles to be a bad point, then our sequence was effective at drawing her into the plot and at the same time entertaining her.
From Amy's comment, we noticed that she pointed out slightly different positives about our sequence compared to Kerry, instead praising our use of Cinematography and camera angles, as well as the acting in the scenes. She thought we could use more sound at the final point of the sequence to build more tension and suspense. This could also add shock to audience, as they would not expect it, which is a good point to take from Amy as she could be right and maybe this would've made the ending more effective, however adding suspenseful and shocking sound to a character appearing from no where would almost pretty much be a jump scare, which is very typical and common in the thriller genre and we have stated from the start that we didn't want to be so one dimensional and sterotypical and also seperate ourselves to have our own style, plus it was revealed in our questionnaire that most people nowadays would actually prefer if a thriller film did not contain jump scares.
From Malu's comment, we can gather that like Kerry, she also liked our narrative, which means it was clearly effective if others were agreeing with this statement, however Malu also shared constructive comments with Kerry and Amy about the sounds behind used when morgan is in the frame, which shows this was a clear negative in our sequence, as it was a common constructive comment and that we could have clearly done better to make the end of our sequence more effective.
From Bettie's comment, we can see again our audience liked our transition of shots and use of them, but also another common negative as she also felt our credits did not appear long enough, but it is evident that she enjoyed our sequence as this was the only negative that she could point out, meaning overall, apart from the sound used when Cameron appears in shots, our thriller sequence was effective, the audience were drawn in and engaged into our narrative, and we displayed our scenes and shots well with good camera shots.
In conclusion, the audience in general liked our narrative, and were very impressed with our shots, meaning Claire did a very good job in her role as filming the scenes. We could however have done better towards the end of the sequence to build even more of an atmosphere and create shock and more tension for the audience, but overall we were clearly effective in doing this otherwise, and our sequence recieved generally positive reviews and it's clear to see our audience were staisfied.
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