Audience Feedback

For our audience feedback on the editing and filming we decided to produce a questionnaire of fifteen questions and hand them out to 25 people that have watched our thriller.

Our Questionnaire:

1. Did you find our film entertaining?
1 2 3 4 5

2. Would you watch our film from seeing the trailer??
Yes No Maybe

3. Would you suggest our film to a friend/family?
Yes No

4. Do you think our film built up tension and suspense well?
Yes No

5. Did you think our film was:
Not very good Good Very Good Excellent

6. Did you think our continuity worked well?
Yes No

7. How successful did you think the sound was:
1 2 3 4 5

8. How successful was the lighting when setting the mood/atmospehere?
1 2 3 4 5

9. How good do you think the camera angles were :
1 2 3 4 5

10. Did you think the editing skills and techniques were of a high quality?
1 2 3 4 5

11. Did our film live up to your expectations of a thriller?
Yes No

12. Did you find you could predict the ending?
Yes no

13. Could you compare our film to other thrillers?
Yes no

14. Do you think our thriller fitted all the codes and conventions needed :
For example graphics, sound, lighting, editing.ect…
Yes No

15. Did you think the graphics and titles were effective?
Yes No

Results:

This shows that the majority of people found are film entertaining, this is good as even though we want to leave the audience on edge it gives me the impression that they would watch it again, well watch the rest of the film.

This shows that the audience may have to watch more before or maybe no more about the film before watching the film. This gives the impression that they didnt find that much out in the trailer maybe making people uncertain of whther they would watch the rest of the film. However, it is pretty much even that most people said yes compared to the no's and maybes.

The majority of the population of the audience after watching the trailer, they would recommend it to a family or friend those that said they wouldnt may not because of the age of the family or may no that they are not in to thrillers so this wouldnt be the film for them.

From this is shows that the audience were unsure on whether it built up tension or suspense, but overall the majority of the audience though it did. This makes me believe that if we added more twists it may make more of the audience want to watch our thriller.

I think overall that we got positive feedback for this question, having mainly goods, very good, and excellent. So even if it wasnt as efficient as most of the audience would of expected they were still pleased with the trailer, from this i can tell that they may suggest this film to others to watch.

Maybe with some editing we could change these reults making everyone think it flowed well. However i think that it did have good continuinty and wouldnt want to change it so much as i think it buildt tension well.

Before people answered this question we knew that the sound could be improved and was surprised to see such good feedback. However if we were to make it into a full film i would change the music. as i feel it repeats itself too much.

Again with positive feedback on the camera angles, I think that we did show a range of different angles steadily but maybe i would show a few more difficult shots.

I think the audience were mainly pleased with the editing as we did use a range of different edits including a ghosting effect. If we could edit it again maybe we would use a few more edits and try and simulate the editing with it.

Overall i think the audience were happy with our thriller, however they only watch the trailer for it so may prefer it if they saw the whole thing.

All of the audience agreed that they couldnt predict the ending making it seem that we had a twist which we did, so i think it may surprise more of the audience to come.

The audience found that our film was different to others as we used a little girl as a murderer compared to the stereo-typicall male villan.

I think the audience were happy with our graphics and thought that it did fit into the codes and conventions nessecery for our thriller.

I think the audience were pleased with the titles as they were quite effective because they linked in with the topic of the thriller, as it had the child-like theme.

Edit decision list

Shot Number	Shot Description/Other Essential Information	Type Of Edit
1	Opening titles “a film by:”	Text
2	Opening titles – group names	Text
3	Plain shot of white	Strobe light flash
4	Door	Extended time
5	Movement with doll	Speed up time
6	Dancing with doll	Slow down speed
7	Worms eye view of clowns feet	Black and white
8	Throw doll	Black and white
9	Plain shot of white	Strobe light flash
10	Throw doll on floor and zoom in	Black and white
11	Rearranging toys	Black and white/slow down
12	Picking toys	Black and white/fast speed
13	Plain shot of white	Strobe light flash
14	Pulling leg	Ghostly effect/Black and white
15	Plain shot of white	Strobe light effect
16	Pulling sheet	Black and white/Ghostly
17	Craig’s name	Speed up
18	Picking doll	Black and white/speed up
19	Drawing house (caption)	Speed up
20	Dead bear	Black and white/crop/zoom
21	Mirror	Black and white
22	Plain white sheet	Strobe light flash
23	Becky Huggard’s name
24	Teddy
25	Walking out of door
26	Stairs
27	Photo album
28	Rebecca Durrington’s name
29	Plain white shot	Strobe light flash
30	On landing
31	Stairs from behind
32	Rebecca Ishaque’s name
33	Throwing teddy
34	Title	Text
35	Title	Text

Diary

    We chose to film at one of our friends Ellis' as used her little sister as the main character 'Cesca.' We filmed on 4/12/10 however Rebecca D couldn't make it as she was ill so it was only myself, Becky I and Craig that was able to film.We managed though as we all had copy's of the storyboards, location sheets and copy of the shooting script. We also all travelled together to make sure we all arrived at 1 to have it finished for 4, so we had chance to do any extra filming if needed and we managed to get it all done in schedule.
    We used Ellis' house to film as she has other younger brothers and sisters so it seemed an appropriate area to film. We mainly filmed in Cescas room as she had the right surroundings and toys that we could use. Cesca wore her own clothes to make it seen stereotypically child, innocent like. Although we did go tot the charity shop in Stockton heath to buy our own toys for Cesca to destroy.
    Myself, Becky I, Craig and Becky D took a share of producing the paperwork which we tried to follow as much as we could when filming which really helped although we did have to make a few adjustments making sure it was easy to follow the storyline. Making us able to reach our targets of getting it all filmed and finished.
    If we could change anything it would of been to have Becky D there to help with the filming so we had her opinions as welll as her own. We may also have included more of the house instead of the room and the stairs. Also we would have included Cesca drawing pictures and scribbling them out, rather than us having to hire out the camera again and doing it on a different date. As it was hard to try and arrange another day of where we could use Cesca and have someone able to film it. In the end as we couldn't find another day in which we could hire the cameras and use Cesca, we had to record Becky I drawing and them scribbling out to use as credits in our film. On the other hand, it was very successful.

Tuesday 4th January,
    This was our first time where we used the editing suite and we all logged all of our shots and decided which shot we were going to use but we kept the others for back-up if we needed them at a later date when editing. We placed them into an order of what we could edit giving it a steady flow of shot to shot. After doing that we played it back and had a a discussion of what effects that could be included.
Some suggestions were:

• Black and White half way through the introduction; which would show both sides of Cesca changing from innocent to evil.

Wednesday 5th January,
    In this lesson we decided to start putting scenes together to make it flow better, with out having breaks, although the continuity wasn't very good, so to overcome this we had to use different angle shots which didn't affect the film as we recorded each shot about 5 times, in case we had this problem. Another problem that occurred was the background sound as this put us off and caused interruptions within the mood of the film. So we completely cut the sound out, as we were adding music at a later date. In the end of the lesson, we managed to have edited around 40-50 seconds of the film.

Thursday 6th January,
   We just carried on to edit leading on from the lesson before, and found it easier with out having the background sound and tested different sorts of effects to see what would go with what, we found that the black and white was good to use for the evil side of Cesca.

Friday 7th January,
    Today we started to add affects to our scenes, we experimented from shot to shot of what was more effective. We decided to use a flash inbetween each violent scene to make it more dramatic. Also we decided to use the ghost effect when Cesca ripped the bears ear off.
Tuesday 11th January,
    We managed to get up to just over the first minute adding affects to each scene, making sure they all flowed and the mood was easy to understand adding more affects as we went along. We also had to re-do some scenes on numerous times as it was unclear of  what was happening. We also made a plan of what we were going to do next lesson of adding captions, and text especially the credits.

Wednesday 12th January,
    We captured the shots of our names handwritten in pencil in a chronological order to use as our credits. However we had to change the speed and the zoom of our shots which made it look more dramatic and psycotic like the audience asked for. We used the zoom tool to change the angles of our shots for variety so some are zoomed out and others zoomed in closely to again show it being unusual and psychotic.To think of the desicion where to put the captions we had to experiment allot, we firstly tried to fit them at the start of our film, however we thought they took too long and dragged on and were quite repetitive so we thought the best way was to spread them out throughout the film. This was an advantage because this would really help with our continuity in some places.

Thursday 13th January,
    We started by watching it from the beginning, making notes of what we needed to change, making sure the speed and the affect all fitted in and created the right atmosphere. We had to cut and copy to make sure every thing was in the correct place, so even the smallest bit of detail was important. Myself and Becky Ishaque also started to right a plan of what we had done in each lesson, to help with these diaries.

Friday 14th January,
    We carried on with the edits, making sure that we had everything in a order, and again experimented with the different sorts of affects. Whilst Becky D started to do the questionnaire.

Tuesday 18th January,
    We again adjusted any errors that needed to be fixed we just needed to put the film together and edit the gaps that were involved, this gave us a rough estimation of the estimated time of the film, it was around 2.10. We then began to continue to look through more music, research different genres but we couldn't find much that fitted in with our theme, because it is a psychological thriller we needed something creepy yet not horror like because we weren't making a horror however we still needed to make a disturbing atmosphere. We did find a piece of music that we thought could be a backup plan, it is an instrumental of "ring around the roses" and we decided that we could play around with the editing process and try and change the pitch and speed up the duration to create a weird unusual atmospehere, but we will do that in the next few lessons to come.

Wednesday 19th January,
   In today's lesson we decided that Craig was going to carry on with any last edits that needed to be made on the film whilst Becky D carried on with the questionnaire and myself and Becky I searched YouTube for any music that we could use throughout our film.  We then added text captions, because it was suggested we used a mixture of different ways to present our captions so these ways ware, by the film and the other by the text. We wrote our names on one slide, and on the other wrote "ring around a Rosie" in weird writing on a another. We experimented of what music should go where, and that all the daunting music went with the black and white affect making ring a ring a Rosie go last to build all suspense.  We started off with the instrumental music normal speed. however when she begins to rip the Doll up it goes high pitched and fast, making it sound out of the ordinary showing our character going insane. A big challenge with editing the music this way, we had to make sure our shots of the film, went to the beat of the music, so we needed to change speed duration of some shots. For example when she is pointing at the doll, she should point on every beat of the music. We completed a few scenes into this.

Thursday 20th January,
    Today we carried on editing the last bits, adding music to the correct places, watching it on numerous times to make sure everything was how we planned it but made the music steadily go faster and faster making it more effective. when the filmed caption is shown, because we had sped up the duration of the clips, when we see our character hand write our captions, it works well together and creates more of a mood, making it seem more weird and insane. Towards the end of the lesson we began to watch through and refine any last minute bits.In this lesson we completed the whole of our editing process, music and video editing.