What did we learn from our Audience Feedback?

So, what did our audience feedback teach us?

Our audience feedback was generally positive, with the majority of the group supporting our ideas. The most favourable ideas seemed to be the car crash -for various reasons including ‘dramatic’, ‘realistic’ and ‘dynamic’-, the singling out of one person in a crowd – our audience said that this would be dramatic and effective if it was pulled off well. Camera shots including focus pull were also mentioned positively as this was said to effectively show emotion and isolation. Therefore, we will be keeping these ideas in our opening sequence.

Nonetheless, our feedback seemed to suggest that the idea of graphic match through circles was our least effective idea as it was perhaps too complicated or irrelevant, therefore we decided to remove this from our sequence. Other people said that the drugs made the events of the sequence too obvious and took the enigma –which is a key convention within the genre- away from it so we also decided to remove the idea of involving drug use. Also mentioned as a weakness was the fact that our pitch didn’t mention a specific plot, so we are going to focus on creating more of a storyline.

The majority of our audience feedback suggested that our ideas did fit the genre because it conformed to many conventions through different forms including psychological, flashbacks, memories, car crashes and audience relation through drugs. Therefore we will work on making these ideas even more relevant but will keep most of these as themes within our sequence. Those who opposed it's relevance said that they could not see the connection with the ideas of childhood and they did not feel that the idea of circles had been given enough explanation for them to make a decision upon. Henceforth, we will not be using neither the idea of childhood, nor the theme of circles.

Our questionnaire simply confirmed the fact that our target audience should be from the age of fifteen to the age of thirty.

Our questionnaire also confirmed that our opening sequence will come in at the second stage of Todorov’s theory; the disruption of equilibrium.