Audience feedback

I have conducted a detailed questionnaire. It handed it out to ten people.  There was a mixture of unhelpful and helpful answers, and i will only write about the relevant ones in this post.

My questionnaire

The questionnaire has 7 detailed questions, all open ended. The questions involved some things that i was uncertain about such as the ending, and also involved things that I wanted my audiences opinion on such as the music and sound.



The first question was asking my audience if they knew what was going on regarding the story line. This is important as otherwise the audience will get confused.  All the audience wrote about the boy getting up and leaving the house. There were mixed ideas on weather it was his house or not, but I was pleased with this. As I did not want to reveal everything in the first 2 minutes of the film.

The second question was asking the audience  what they noticed about the characters. I felt this was important as social class is very important in social realism. The most encouraging answer i got on this question was 'Middle Class fallen on tough times' , I was happy with this as it sums up my character well.

All the people I asked thought that the music was appropriate and they didn't think I needed a voice over. They also said they think the setting was appropriate. I was happy with the answers on setting as i choose my setting very carefully. I wanted to show his transition from middle class to a less privileged person through the settings he walked past in the opening,

The audience thought that enough story was involved and one wrote 'i think you had a good level of story line as you don't want to reveal too much in the opening'. The audience also liked the ending, although one person wrote 'the ending was very sudden and seemed slightly less perfected than the rest', this was helpful, as I found end very hard to do and this answer proved to me that I do need to go over it again.

One more piece of criticism I received was about the order of my titles. My teacher said that it would be conventional if the directed by title was next to the edited by title, so I will change these around.

Although I received relatively good feedback I did form some targets from the questionnaires.

• Make the production logo's last slightly longer at the start. 
• Make title of film show longer after the effects.
• Make sure there are no shorts gaps in footage that you have not noticed.
• Tweak the ending to be more smooth
• Change the order of titles

I will do all the above targets before competing my final edit.