3. The first feedback from we received was from a 16 year old student, Jess Downard.
We also filmed her reaction to get more in depth, impacting analysis. When we
went over her feedback form, we realised that she liked the makeup that we used
on the actors and the music aspect that we added to our thriller. She also said that
she thought the wind sound effect that we added to the beach scene was really
impacting and really gave her the ‘shivers’. The form showed us that she also liked
the use of black and white in the flashback scenes and the camera shots used in the
Train Station scene. The feedback that we got about the credits were really good as
she said that the font and effect we used made them look ghostly and it helped
them really fit in with the theme of our thriller.
Jess only wrote one thing in the dislikes box because she didn’t really think their
were any faults. The only thing she said that she didn’t enjoy were that some of the
shots were quite long and could have been cut to make them feel more impacting.
The only thing Jess said that we could improve on is that we could have made the
shots that were quite long into two shorter shots to make the film more rapid and
to quicken the pace of our thriller.
The feedback that we gained from this really helped us because we now know what
to change about our thriller and what will make it better.
5. The next feedback form we received was from another 16 year old female
called Amy Rashbrook. We decided to use 3 people from this age group because
it is the group that we aimed our thriller at. We also filmed her reaction to get a
more impacting analysis.
We noticed that some of the things that Amy said were the same as Jess’s
answers. The elements that Amy likes about our film were that the transitions
were effective and flowing, the black and white looks really good because it
creates a contrast between the real life scenes e.g. the beach and the flashback
scenes e.g. the forest. Amy also said she likes the editing throughout the whole
thriller video because it was really rapid and flowed continuously.
Amy didn’t leave us any bad feedback because she explained that she didn’t
feel like there was anything that was really bad and that effected our thriller in
a bad way.
On the other hand, she did give us some constructive criticism. She added to
the feedback for that she thought that the music could have lasted a bit longer
when it came to the forest scene. We have taken this into account as a group
and all agreed that we needed to change this particular element of the thriller.
7. The last feedback form we received was from a middle aged man, Mr Sheriff. As he is a
media teacher himself, we thought that it would be good to get some feedback off of
him because he knows what is good and what is bad. He also knows the ins and outs of
the film industry so he could tell us what really works well and what is causing us a
major problem.
The first piece of knowledge he gave us was that he liked the cinematography that we
used. He also said that the location that we used were good because they set the right
atmosphere for a thriller video. He liked the fact that we created the correct mood to
help establish our thriller video.
Some of the things that he didn’t like were the sharpness of our editing skills. The effects
that we used caused the editing to judder a bit so he advised us that we changed some
of the speed of some of the shots and it would sort it all out.
The ways that Mr Sheriff told us to improve were to put the title of the film at the end of
the opening and he thought that we should put the names of the people starring in our
thriller all together at the beginning instead of in the separate scenes. He also thought
that we should put the production company name and the ‘presents’ credit separate to
create more of an atmosphere.
This feedback really helped us because it was from a media point of view and it really
helped us to improve our thriller. The changes that we made really made our thriller
more impacting and fitted into the convention of a thriller more.
