Rough cut - Miss Georgiou

 Rough Cut 

Audience feedback is important when constructing our production as it helps our group understand what we have done well, and what needs to be changed. The feedback is to help us improve and highlight errors that we may not have noticed.

We gathered audience feedback each time we edited our clips because we would ask other groups what they thought of our footages so far. Once we had finished editing our rough cut we showed it to the whole class and teacher. Everyone gave a verbal feedback on what they thought was conventional; for example, the soundtrack we had playing throughout was seen as a positive and clearly identified the film as a thriller. The constructive Cristian we received was the shot where better turns round to reveal she is the antagonist, here the lighting was way to dark and will we change that when we film again. We also uploaded our rough cut production onto youtube publicly, this means anyone can view, like and comment on our film, Devour. We have gained five likes, and three comments which have positives and constructive comments which we can use to improve our rough cut.

Due to being so involved with making and producing the film it is easy to think that the audience will understand the narrative. Having a stranger watch the production, and seeing if they understand and follow the film is vital. In our rough cut we did not included the clip with the dog in, therefor shouting "Bella" is a bit miss leading as the audiences could assume it's a human. The feedback from others will Benefit my groups production and the film industry as we can adapt and change scenes to statisfy the audience,  also when recieving positive feedback it gives the group a moral boost, which keeps us all workings hard to succeed.


The main three positive comments we recieved were the: soundtrack and sound effects, low key lightings and finally the cinematography. The soundtrack we used was called 'house of leaves' we downloaded this soundtrack off a free copywright website. The feedback we got was that the soundtrack was very conventinal to the thrillers genre, this lead to the audience feeling scared and being on the edge of their seats. This is what we hoped the soundtrack would bring to the film. Secondly the low key lighting was another aspect that the class and teacher thought was a positive to making our film successful. We used different filter on Final Cut Pro x to keep a low key lighting on our film, we also adjusted the brightness to try and match the lighting due to filming at different times  of the day. The feedback was that it left a eery and thriller feeling to the production. Finally the cinematography we used was recognised, especially the scene where the points of view of Fred walking up behind Bettie. This made the audience feel the tension between the characters and increased the shock when Betti finally turns round.

The main constructive feedback our production received was some of the shots were slightly shaky. This lead to the audience stuggling to concentrate on the film, therefor our way to improve this would be to ensure the camera is correctly set up on the tri pod to avoid errors. Another constructive feedback was the narrative, we did not film enough shots to clearly tell the narrative, also Miss pointed out that the two male characters looked too similar, and should change their outfits to help the audience understand. Therefor we will need to add and change shots to overcome this feedback. The final and main constructive feedback was the shot that was Bettie turning round. It was clearly filmed on another day and the lighting was a lot darker than the rest of the shots. To avoid this next time, we will need to organise days and times when we can all film, and ensure the lighting is the same.