MAIN Post 12a: Evaluation - Audience Feedback

When our group and I had finished editing the opening sequence of our film, the next step for us was to find out what our audience thought about it. We gathered small groups of people together to sit down and watch the opening sequence we'd created. From this we recorded their feedback and this is what's shown in the links below.
Again when trying to embed the video it didn't work therefore I have placed all the links below with the feedback clip it leads to.

Audience Feedback Rough Cut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UltDP81oOEQ&feature=BFa&list=UUiCPNZjTUS7GKDcdT5xgP_Q
Audience Feedback 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv9xa9d4eos&feature=BFa&list=UUiCPNZjTUS7GKDcdT5xgP_Q
Audience Feedback 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqFsWCSLVeI&feature=BFa&list=UUiCPNZjTUS7GKDcdT5xgP_Q

Audience Feedback 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D8w-ln-sgg&feature=BFa&list=UUiCPNZjTUS7GKDcdT5xgP_Q

Audience Feedback 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrpnbXdXUmU&feature=BFa&list=UUiCPNZjTUS7GKDcdT5xgP_Q

Audience Feedback 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7JkPprAVEQ&feature=BFa&list=UUiCPNZjTUS7GKDcdT5xgP_Q
Audience Feedback 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcmtVe2_DCo&feature=BFa&list=UUiCPNZjTUS7GKDcdT5xgP_Q
Audience Feedback 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZkfZnGHI08&feature=BFa&list=UUiCPNZjTUS7GKDcdT5xgP_Q 


After watching all the feedback clips of the audiences watching our opening sequence I can now summarise it, getting a better understanding of what they thought.
The majority of the people who we got feedback from commented on the very beginning of the opening sequence when the camera was panning across the maths equipment.

They said they enjoyed it as it brought curiosity, emotion and it helped set the mood. Along with this, some commented on the thought that maybe this highlighted the pressures of school that a specific character could be going through.

One of the other key points made in the feedback videos was the use of the music in the opening sequence.
The speed of the music and the opening titles at the beginning of the opening sequence went well together, some of the audience said, and along with this it helped set the mood of the beginning of the film. The music made the audience 'intrigued' and was 'dark and misleading'.

The opening sequence that the different audience watched, they said, was spooky and the attention to detail was very good. This shows that the mood was put across well and all the audience seemed to notice it. Another point several people made was the fact that once the girls got into the car, after seeing the male look out the window and then the interior mirror, it made them slightly uncomfortable to watch because of the thought of the short skirt and loose tie shown in a shot before.

When the audiences were asked about where they think the film would be going and what would happen later, they had a mixture of comments. We found that the women watching the opening sequence thought the rest of the film would be about either 'grooming', 'sexual abuse' or a 'rapist'. Whereas the men weren't quite sure on what they thought it would be as the responses we got from them were 'something to do with a maths tutor' and 'misunderstanding the signs'. From this we found out that the women had a better understanding of the opening sequence than what the men did.

Overall the majority of the feedback from all the clips was fairly good.