Evaluation - Audience Feedback

Beyond creating a rough cut of our opening sequence, I created a questionnaire to gain feedback from our target audience. I asked questions that I thought would benefit our group in terms of making our opening sequence better and more stark in terms of the horror genre. I issued the questionnaire to ten students in sixth form of whom weren't aware of the plot or any aspect of our film before watching it. Doing this allowed me to gain reliable and applicable results.

Through looking at the results, majority of the students said that through our different shots we have created a tense pace to the opening sequence that reflects a horror genre. Although, some also mentioned that in some shots where it was merely of the surroundings and no actor was yet in the shot, it almost broke the atmosphere and they think we should assure that there are no shots like this. In this case, when making our final opening sequence we will assure to cut out any lengthly shots so that a fast paced atmosphere is adament.

Something else I discovered through creating this questionnaire was that use of music would be something that almost defines a horror genre. All students recommended a deep, intense and dark track, and most said that it should be played throughout the whole film; but perhaps quieter at the points of which dialogue was heard. Through looking at the results it is clear that people were pleased with our opening sequence and that we have created an effective film. Other comments that people made were irrelevant in improving our film. Below I have inserted a copy of the questionnaire.

Above I have inserted a clip of feedback among response of watching our rough cut. We asked a group of students that were of our target audiences' age group.