Audience Feedback

After the screening process the audience gave us their feedback on our thriller. They told us what they thought of all of the components of our film and gave us positive and negative feedback. To start our audience pointed out that the opening was suspenseful. Which is one of the main themes of a thriller and one we wanted to get across in our film. So this feedback was brilliant as it meant we had managed to accomplish effectively including one of the key  thriller conventions in our opening. 

The next point made by our audience was that they really enjoyed our cliffhanger ending. They wanted to know what was going to happen next and thought the idea of the unknown for the rest of the girls made them excited to watch more. This is great because it means we were able to entice our audience and achieved an air of mystery as to the outcome for the rest of the film. 

The third point that our audience made was that our film was intriguing. This told us that they thought the story line was interesting enough that they didn't get bored, not only did they not get bored they were interested enough in our opening to find it intriguing that there was the possibility of this psychopath murderer committing more murders.

The only real piece of negative feedback was on the quality of the acting. A vast majority of the time our audience thought that the lack of good acting made the scenes comical rather than serious drama. We were not to discouraged by this as acting is a skill that was just not possessed by us while making this opening and is not something that we can readily come across so the only thing that we can do to improve is to practice our acting skills before the next time we film. 

Screening

Once our thriller was completed we needed to find an audience to screen it for us in order to find out what people would think of it. To maximize the screening opportunities for our thriller we posted our final video on YouTube and Facebook so that people would be able to comment any opinions and give feedback. 

Just in case this didn't work we decided to get some face to face feedback so we approached some of the students at out sixth form and asked them to watch our thriller and give us their honest opinion. This is necessary as we need feedback in order to evaluate whether we did well or not and to help us to see what we did well and any possible criticisms. It is important that we get criticism in order for us to know how to improve because without feedback our work will never get any better.   

The majority of the feedback that we received was positive. The people that we showed enjoyed our film and and pointed out some criticisms that we didn't notice ourselves. Now when we do similar work in future we will take into account the mistakes that we made and try to rectify them. Over all this was a learning experience that we will be able to put to use in future. 

First picture of the screening 

Second picture of the screening

Completed Thriller

This is our final completed version of our thriller video:

Analysis of rough cut

The purpose of a rough cut is to have a simple version of your final product that gives you an idea of what your final product will look like when finished. A rough cut is made without any technical additions such as additional music or transition so that any changes that need to be made can be easily applied without the need of having to redo any off the effects that you have added. 

Our rough cut was successful even though there were a few minor mistakes. This is because even without any effects our rough cut still managed to be suspenseful and exciting. Our mistakes are nothing to worry about at the moment as we already acknowledged that there would be mistakes as we rushed the process of editing our rough cut as some of our group were absent and as such not able to give their input to the editing of the rough cut. So this ended up being quite a rushed process. 

To edit our rough cut all we really did was load the footage onto the computer and imported it into premier pro put our footage in chronological order and delete any unnecessary scenes. Once that was done all we needed to do was cut down footage to approximately the right amount of time it should show. At this point we did not need to add any music or effects as it is only a rough cut. 

When watching trough our rough cut we were fairly happy with how things went, if the rough cut is any reflection of our final thriller then I believe that we will be successful in completing the task effectively. Some things that we picked up on while watching our rough cut were some minor editing hiccups that can easily be rectified when we cary out our final editing process. 

Audience feedback on rough cut

When we showed our rough cut to people we received feedback. Most of the feedback we received was positive such as people thought that the idea was really interesting they liked the cliffhanger ending and said that they couldn't wait to see the final opening. However we also received negative feedback which is the whole point of a rough cut to see what people honestly think of your film so far and to get constructive criticism and tips on how to improve when we complete our final course work. 

Points that were brought to our attention were that our editing needed some improvements for example there was a piece of footage which included the director (Louis) speaking. As we start combing through the thriller when editing we will be able to pick up on things like that fairly easily, and so can be avoided when it comes to our actual opening. Some of the other feedback that we received was that the beginning scene was too long and boring as all it consisted of was the girls walking along a path. Although we did this intentionally as this is going to be the time period where we will include the titles so we made sure that nothing relevant was happening as not to distract the audience from the action with titles. 

All together this feedback was really useful as it allowed us to see that an audience was enthusiastic to watch and comment on our rough cut this means that we are now confident about our ability to produce a good final thriller opening. 

Rough cut

We have done a rough cut of the thriller course work. First we made sure that we had all of our footage putting it all order making sure that nothing was missing. Then we made small adjustments cutting out unnecessary filming and shortening anything that was excessively long. After we had finished with our rough cut we uploaded it to youtube.

Editing 2

Once we were sure we were happy with the way our footage fit together and looked when it ran as a whole it was time to start adding the finishing touches. To start we needed to add a section at the very beginning with our candidate information. Then we added out ident and started to put in the titles. We did this by cutting them in between the footage that we already had at the beginning. To make the editing process easier we split the footage into several chunks rather than having it be one huge chunk. So at this stage we needed to put them all together tweaking the footage in places so that everything ran smoothly. 

The first section is not rendered and the media is offline this is because the screenshot was taken on the computer that the footage was originally saved on, rather than the computer we later worked on. 

Screen shot of finished thriller in premier pro