Evaluation question 3: What have you learned from audience feedback?
FINAL FEEDBACK: Film, Poster, Radio Trailer
I asked a male and female for feedback of my final product. I videoed the response. Ive learnt a lot from both the positive and negative feedback.
MAX WILLIAMS- AGE 14
ALEX ALLEN- AGED 44
FEEDBACK: Final good-bye scene
Today, we filmed the final scene in our short film. After gathering feedback, my partner and I realised there wasn't a sufficient ending to our short film. So, after much discussion, and listening to various views we decided this scene required us to be extremely planned and now as I've edited it, it has been reversed reversed.
FEEDBACK: Central Scrapbook Scene
Last week, my partner and I filmed a central narrative scene to our short film, which would feature in between each scene. When I came to editing the footage we had filmed, I noticed that it was slightly out of focus and also wasn't as professional and convincing as other filming. I then received feedback from fellow peers in my class, they gave us interesting points and advice that we considered, leading us to refilm.
Below I have stated the comparisons and other features within the new footage.
The new footage was extremely successful, and due to the feedback we were given, encouraged us to refilm. On the left, I have attached a picture of how the scene was set up. The lighting focused on the scrap book which was the most important prop.
During this very successful shoot, I also used the opportunity to upload a picture to a popular social media calledSnapchat. Everyone uses Snapchat. But it is directed toward teens and adults. Snapchat is mostly a hit among teenagers, according to several research firms, though it is catching on and embracing new demographics every day.
Viners (personalities who use the Vine app), for instance, are known to use Snapchat's story feature as an alternative means of communicating with fans, so I have copied this and used it to communicate for feedback with my fans. You could give a long explanation to describe how social media and apps are evolving in order to match the current trends and interests of active users around the world, but I learnt most through THIS video (It's made by Casey Neistat, a popular YouTube personality.)
FEEDBACK: Props and Mise-en-Scene
The whole of our short film revolves around a scrapbook prop acting as the central narrative device: the order of the pages in the book is the order of the activities that occur in the short film thus it acts as a structuring device, tracing the narrative arc.
The scrapbook pages turn at the end of the film displaying some of the credits and the shutting of the book suggests the finality of Daisy's life and the end of her story.
In addison, it gives rise to some playful and inventive editing: sometimes the still photographs turn into live action. For example the bottom left picture features the protagonist and her boyfriend Gabriel in a romantic scene in a park. The photograph is the sort of record that couples take to hang onto their memories but it also afforded us the chance to freeze the action in which becomessymbolic in our narrative, as Daisy's life is put on hold and cut short by her illness.
The scrapbook represents many hours of production work as it involved taking still photographs during shoots and outside of shoots, printing them off and collecting a variety of stickers, diamante studs, coloured paper and momentos of the day such as ticket stubs and sweet wrappers.
Some comments received included, I have also attached an image of the feedback:
- My focus group was intrigued by the creativity and detail of the scrapbook.
- The scrapbook prop is very convincing because it is what people her age do- people in love want to document every moment.
- The material in the scrapbook provides realistic photos to post on the social media sites such as Instagram.
- Adds pathos to the story because it is Daisy the protagonist memorialising her life because she is dying she knows how valuable every moment is.
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