The filmmakers received feedback from test audiences that helped them improve their horror film. The audience found the storyline easy to follow until the confusing return of the character Mr. Smith. They also struggled to hear some audio and felt the film lacked scares and music. To address this, the filmmakers cut the confusing Mr. Smith scene, increased audio volume, and added music and sound effects. Viewers also wanted more jumpy scenes, so one was added to the ending. Based on a survey, the filmmakers also worked to incorporate a mysterious villain. While they couldn't film at night as planned, they shot in dark locations to achieve a scary feel. Feedback also helped them improve the film's poster slogan to better suit

1. Critical Evaluation
Presentation
Gracia Blessing

2. Question 3. What
have you learned
from your audience
feedback?

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. What is Survey Monkey?

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.