Audience Reactions
Our first screening of our film was shown to a class of media students who also had the same task. It was shown twice and they were asked to give feedback. That being the genre they thought it was, the name of the film, what went well and what can be improved.
Most if the audience managed to pick up the film name and the genre was also guessed pretty accurately. About eight out of twelve people could tell it was an action film. This was one of the good points we got from our review because it means we used some key conventions of a typical action film and it was clear to the audience what it was.
The audience over all said that the opening titles worked well but we need to change what they say because at the moment they say things like "directed by:" and "filmed by:". These need to be changed so that they just say our names. This was an area for improvement because it would make the start better.
Another thing that the audience said worked well was the music we added into our film. One review said that the music "worked well" and another said it was "appropriate".
The last thing that 'went well' was that a few of the reviews said that we challenged the conventions.
we're really glad that some of the audience picked up on this because it's exactly what we were trying to do. we think they understand this because it was the woman throwing the punches and not typically, the man.
One of the main things that the reviews say we need to change was the filming of the punch and the other part of the fight scene where Monroe gets pushed. It needs to look more realistic. It looks a bit fake because it was about a foot away from his face. Also the push needs to be redone because it's too slow and doesn't look real either. it needs to be a lot more convincing.
The other main problem in our film was the lighting. Because it was filmed at night it makes it difficult for the audience to see the surrounding and what is actually happening in the scene. Although we know that the scenes need to have more lighting it is hard to fix. We could film the shots again but the cars will not be in the same place and continuity would go out of the window. If we edited the clip on the computer to make it brighter then we would loose quality of the picture and probably make it worse.
The final review was from our teacher (of Media) Miss Street. For our first screening she gave our film introduction a mark of 48, but with the potential to get much higher. Some of the suggestions for improvements were to scrap the ending, add shots of the woman boxing and re-film the fight scene. Our introduction ends with Monroe's hand picking up a phone as it rings. It was suggested we cut this out completely because it does not really tell us much about the film and is not relevant or needed. We could cut a few seconds out of the length of our product and put an extra bit at the start.
The bit we would add to the start would be quick shots of Janet Monroe boxing. This would give the audience a bit more information about Monroe's character and will help them understand why she is able to punch the robber later on in the production.
"If Subject Monroe is Stella - audience need to know her better!"
The reviews have really helped us because they show us what we have done well and what we can improve on. The improvement were what help us tweak our film so that we can make it the best we can make it to achieve a better level.
