Audience Feedback on Our First Draft

On February 13th 2015 we showed our first draft of our film opening sequence to our media class and to someone that is unfamiliar with editing so they would notice the obvious cuts and the story better. The first comment made about our sequence was that it was 3 minutes and needed to be cut down to 2, this would mean taking out a lot of scenes to make it shorter.

The next comment was that the scene of our main character packing her bag was too long, we were already aware of this before showing it to the class and it will be fixed when we next get the chance to film.

Although it was not brought up we noticed that the lighting needed to be fixed as some shots were darker than others so footage will either need to be edited or re-filmed.

The shot of the girl getting grabbed but in the next shot the person who grabbed her is gone was pointed out to be good job as it portrays our genre and shows what the film is about.

Shots inside the static media room were also liked as we used a creative way to make a everyday classroom have a creepy atmosphere. They also matched the psychological horror genre that we need to follow.

The ending was said to be to quick and as the killer attacks the main character it ruins the psychological horror atmosphere and quickly becomes a everyday horror film. A new ending will have to be planned out and filmed.

The last comment was that there should be more hints at the killer stalking or watching the main character which means several scenes will have to be done again. This will let the audience know that the stalker is always there but they will have to look for the clues.

The student that is not familiar with editing watched our opening sequence and said that she enjoyed the whole storyline as it was interesting and even though it was set in the school we did a good job of making it look creepy which is what we wanted. She also said that she did not notice that edits (continuity editing) which is good as it means no cuts were obviously bad to someone that is unfamiliar with editing.