3: FEEDBACK.

What have you learned from your audience feedback? 

We invited feedback from a range of audiences as it helps us to improve on points in the film which may be slightly weaker than others however notifies us of the good points within our film, giving us an outline to work from and something to work towards. We took various takes on many scenes from our film in order to ensure that we had the best material in our short film, making it look as professional as possible.

The first scene we screened to a selected audience was the date scene; the scene in which the librarian and the protagonist go for a meal with each other, suggesting possible romance to the viewer. We encountered a few difficulties when filming this scene for example the location and the level of light. The low lighting meant that some of the shots were not in focus and we unprepared for the fact the lighting level dropped so instantly. By re-filming the scene we picked a time with better lighting and lit the shot further we studio lights. It also meant that a much clearer and sharper image was portrayed to the viewer, ensuring that they fully understood the plot line. The date scene was also set at a table making it look more formal and enabling the viewer to recognize the genre of romance by the way in which we had set it up.

Further to this we made significant changes to the bedroom scene; this is the scene in which the girl is preparing for her date in her bedroom. We made the decision to re-film the bedroom scene as we found that at this moment the film seemed to lose momentum and as a result of feedback we found out that viewers were not as engaged in the film as they were at other points such as the date scene. I took responsibility for filming today and used a variety of different shots in order to keep the viewer engaged.  I used shots such as a pan from right to left, a close up shot of the phone ringing and of the main actress playing with the library card. We took many different takes to give us a wide variety of filming to choose from in order for us to pick the highest quality take. We also re filmed the crane shot for more clarity and so that the dialogue within the scene was short and snappy. When filming we did experience some technical difficulties with the camera, for example the camera was set to a smaller frame size which meant that the the final film take was a smaller size than we had been filming in before, I also found that quality of the filming using the smaller frame size was not as high as the larger frame size.

Therefore we ended up with a frame like this.

Instead of a frame size like this.

When we finished our film we asked for some final feedback on our work. We invited a selected audience to view our film. They gave us constructive feedback that will help to improve our film, ensuring that it fulfils its potential. This included:

- Deleting the music that ran over the library scene.

- Doing a voice over, over the first meeting of the player and the girl at the library as it is difficult to hear the  dialogue.

- Adding  in a short scene at the beginning where we establish that the girl wants a relationship and is into reading.

- Editing the stop motion scene where she is reading the book so that the smile at the end lasts longer to show how excited she is for the date. 

Therefore I have learnt that audience feedback is crucial in the development and making of our film. By involving the audience you receive different opinions on how the film may be improved, ensuring that it works for everyone. The final result once we had taken the feedback into account and then improved our scenes meant that our short film was of the highest possible standard, ensuring it looks professional when presented to the viewer.