Critical Evaluation Presentation

Gracia Blessing

Question 3. What have you learned

from your audience feedback?

Audience Feedback

After having two students watch our film, even when we had a rough cut, they have given us constructive feedback and pointers and also what they thought what was good about our films.

What we heard a lot was that the story line was easy to understand until the return of Mr. Smith which confused many of the students.

However we still had a few glitches such as the audio being too low and them struggling to hear and understand some of the conversation in the scenes.

Also to use more music and audio clips because our film didn’t really feel scary or have the horror filming before we had added the music. After this we had cut the Return of Mr. Smith scene. We used Final cut pro to increase the audio sounds volume We used iMovie to get audio clips to use for affects.

Scene Cuts and Changes

We decided to cut the school scene when Mr Smith look alike come back to the school 50 years later after his mysterious disappearance, this is how our script planned the film to end but after the feedback interviews many of the students said that it was not clear enough. Therefore we decided to get rid of the scene where by Mr. Smith was going to return and decided to end with him disappearing with no trace.

What is Survey Monkey?

What is SurveyMonkey?

Survey Monkey is a private American company that enables users to create their own Web-based surveys. With the increasing use of the Internet, online questionnaires have become a popular way of gathering information. The website allows you to design your own questionnaire with functions such as formatting and administration. The ease of me getting this questionnaire is by posting the URL via emails or on to a social networking website such as Facebook. Through this we have drawn in our audience. We have used this website to create our own questionnaire.

This question helped us to gather information about what our audience are most interested in when they watch Horror movies . We used this information and added extra jumpy scene like the ending when the hand is placed on the shoulder of main character ‘Mr. Smith’ which was not written in the script. The creative idea came along on the question to how to please our audience request when a huge 84.2% voted for a majority of jumpy scenes.

In the survey feedback above the majority of the public preferred villains that were unsuspected, this coupled with film because we didn’t really have a villain or antagonist, therefore we had to find a way that we were going to build up a binary opposition that would contrast the character of Mr. Smith. Furthermore we came up with the idea that we would create mysterious events that would frame as the protagonist or evil form in our film.

This question was hard to achieve as we had already decided to film the movie in the daylight because it fits in with Mr. Smith character of being a teacher which meant he worked during the day. We tried to accomplish this request by filming our film in many dark areas for example with the lighting we used and our locations were always dark to give that feeling of darkness and the unknown to our audience.

Poster We had a group of youth tell us what they thought about our poster this helped us alter changes, for example the slogan at the bottom of our poster was initially ‘an ordinary day but a day to remember’ the feed back we got back from the students was that it did not really work that well with the our type of genre and that it lacked a mysterious feel and didn’t give them the Goosebumps feel that we had we intended to get. After that interview I and my group decided to play around with the word ordinary and we came up with ‘An Ordinary man and Ordinary day, an Extraordinary set of events’ which coupled better with the horror genre.