Feedback

In yesterday’s Media lesson, everyone had finished their draft of the film, and so all we had to do yesterday was to watch them and to give feedback on what was not so goo, how they could improve it and what worked well in the film. My group was first and so we played our film opening and then gathered feedback, which were as follows,

1. The Cigarette shot from the title sequence was too long, so we need to shorten it down a bit so it doesn’t drag on.
2. The editing from the femme fatale’s lips was not right and so we need to change it a bit to make it look right.
3. The part when the detective knocks on the door was out of sync, so we need to zoom in on the edit and make sure that all the knocks are in the same place as the actual knock that we see.
4. We were asked about the two doors but we had to explain that. There were two doors, one on the outside, which is the white plastic door which leads into the porch and to the other door which is wooden and red. The wooden red door is the appropriate door for our film as it is old fashioned and the style of it is old compared to the modern looking PVC door and so we had to ensure we the detective walking through the first door and getting to the second.
5. Some of the shots, for example the femme fatale brushing her hair and her puttng perfume on, were too long and so, like the cigarette shot, we will nee to shorten them down.
6. The first shot which was the cocktail glass for the title sequence was a high angle shot compared to the rest of them which was an eye level shot. This is turn made it look a bit odd and so we will need to reconsider which cocktail glass shot we can replace it with.
7. The ident of our film is a cocktail glass and behind it, it says “reel”. However the cocktail glass is placed in-between both “e’s” and so it makes it look like as if it should say “revel” because of the shape of the cocktail glass. We need to re-place the name of the ident/logo.
8. The last criticism we got was that the music cut off quite abruptly. Therefore, we were told that to make it better, instead of cutting the music off completely during the dialogue, we could fade the music out but keep it running under the dialogue very slightly so it can just be heard.

These were all very fair comments and my group and I will be taking all of them into account to try and make our film opening as successful as possible. The advantage of getting feedback is we can get a real audience’s opinion about the film and because no one had seen it before, no one was bias and so all the comments and questions were genuine concerns. This really helped us as a group to figure out what we can do to improve and so we can get a good end result.