Evaluation: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

I have collected audience feedback in a variety of ways.

This video shows feedback from Miranda Burns (the victim) and Kieran Forbes (the stalker) as I interview them about their roles and thoughts about the final cut of the film.

What have I learnt?

The first thing I learnt from this type of feedback is that both actors were happy with their roles in the film as they felt they could relate to the persona of the characters. The roles they played were different to any roles they have had previously. Both of them loved the plot and the concept of cutting between the two narratives. They were also both happy with the guidance that Lucy and I offered as the directors.

On another project I am working out outside of my school studies I am working with some short film directors. I asked two of them to review my film from a professional perspective. The response I got is featured below.

- Craig Ford - Director and Founder of Rockwood Pictures and Queer As Film

Cameron King - Director

What have I learnt?

I am very grateful for the feedback I have received from the two Directors Craig Ford and Cameron King, as their professional eye has helped me to acknowledge what works well in my film as well as any aspects I can improve upon in the future. Craig considered my film to be "Very Blair Witch" which is a compliment. Also he expressed how impressed he was with my first "dabble into film". This was very encouraging feedback from someone who has created professional short films, founded their own short film company and won numerous film awards over the years.

Cameron's comments were also very inspiring as he couldn't pick out any technical faults within the film. He stated that the use of a parrallel narrative was very effective in portaying the message behind my film. The comment he made that was most encouraging was "Your direction was influential yet unique, which is difficult for a director to achieve." both Lucy and I were extremely happy with this response.

Through uploading PULSE to youtube, Lucy and I received more great feedback about our film. 
 

 

 

What have I learnt?

The amount of views we have had from YouTube and the number of likes is very pleasing. Both Lucy and I are glad that our film turned out exactly how we wanted it to if not better. The email from the youtuber suggesting that we enter our film into a short film competition was also a pleasant surprise.

 

  After I uploaded our film to YouTube I then posted it on Facebook for all my friend's to see.

  What have I learnt?

Again, the feedback was great and it was clear that our friends understood the concept of the film and shared the same enjoyment that we did. As you can see by the comments above many of our friends were impressed and in some cases shocked at how well our film turned out.

  The main way in which I collected audience feedback was by creating a questionnaire.  I created this questionnaire and then showcased my film to 30 people of all ages. I organised three film showings whereby the audience could fill out the questionnaire immediately after watching PULSE.

  Below is the template of my questionnaire and a selection of the responses.

"Some very professional camera shots - love the rushing trains between scenes."

 

"It was intense and engaging, caught my attention straight away."

"looked like it was a big film crew directing it."

 

"drama in every shot"

 

"excellent construction, editing, sound and acting."

 

What have I learnt?

I analysed the responses for all 30 who participated in the questionnaire and the information collected below shows my findings.

 

STATISTIC: 100% SAID THEY WERE ENTERTAINED

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Ancillary Tasks: Final Film Review

Ancillary Tasks: Creating my Film Review

I used Microsoft Publisher to construct my film review. Featured below is a still image of my creation process. I print screened the main picture from the film and imported it as an image. All of the bordering and the majority of writing was created using Publisher effects. The font I used for PULSE I did take from dafont and the barbed wire bordering was already an existing image.

Using basic lines on publisher I created the pulse monitor reading shown below. I did this simply by following a template and joining up individual lines to look realistic. I then copy and pasted this image numerous times, lined them up next to one another and altered the colours to create a monitoring effect.

Here is what the final product of my film review looks like:

Ancillary Tasks: Researching Film Reviews

The image featured below shows my initial research into existing film reviews. I found these images online and by reading through the reviews it gave me a greater insight into the various aspects of film reviews and what they should contain.

I then decided to purchase a copy of 'Total Film' so that I could conduct a more detailed analysis into the features of film reviews. As you can see by the images shown below I scanned in the reviews along with my annotations.

The annotations have not shown up very clearly on the imported images so I have decided to analyse one of the reviews I found online.

Ancillary Tasks: Final Posters

Below is my final poster representing the second narrative in my film PULSE.

Below is the final poster that reflects the main narrative of my film PULSE.

Ancillary Tasks: Creating the Posters

The first poster that I decided to create would represent the main narrative of an 'ordinary' day in the life of a teenage girl. I decided that the picture should be taken in the room that features in the first few scenes of the film. Also, using the prop of a lipstick suggests that the victim character is going about her daily routine and the camera acts as if it is the mirror.

Above are some of the initial photographs I took.

Out of the images taken the picture above is the photograph that I decided to feature. This is because the image is quite symmetrical and like in the poster of the Black Swan de-constructed in the previous post you can see the intensity in the character's eyes. 

However, the original photograph appeared quite plain and simple, so I played around with some of the texture effects on Adobe Photoshop.

Shown above is the effect that I chose as it softens the image and creates a sense of innocence and sweetness. Another option could be to have sharpened and darkened the image however I don't believe this would have represented the vulnerability of the character as well as this effect shown above.

Here this print screened image shows how I created the poster using Microsoft Publisher. I inserted the picture and used the print margins on Publisher to assess what the size of my poster should be. Also, I imported some possible fonts to use from http://www.dafont.com/ to see whether they suited my poster style.

Above is the image of the final poster. As you can see, I have adopted some of the techniques mentioned in the post before.

The second poster that I created resembles the other aspect of the narrative whereby the innocent victim has been captured by the stalker. 

As you can see by my initial photographs taken, shown above, for my second poster I have decided to keep the same angle so the victim is facing the camera. This allows the audience to see the fear and shock in present in the intensity of the victim's eyes. The top row of photographs were the first images to be taken. However, the hand of the gentleman used was to overwhelming for the image. Although, its force and positioning appears quite powerful it does distract the audience from the victim's reaction. Therefore, I decided to use somebody elses hand as opposed to that of the stalker that acts in the film. The second row features said hand model. The hand over the mouth is symbolic of a kidnapping and the dark clothing and background will be helpful when editing the colour complexion. 

Shown above is the photograph that I finally decided upon. This is because in this picture you can really sense the fear and despair of the victim through her facial expression and eyes.

Using photoshop I enhanced my image by playing around with various eerie effects. Shown above are my favourite three. Although I do like all three, I decided that the image on the far left is more iconic of a gruesome horror film as opposed to my film PULSE. As well as this, you cannot see the expression of the chracter in this shot. The photograph on the far right is the image I initially chose. This is because all of the features of the charcter are clearly defined illminated by the shadowing and lighting effect. However, the image in the middle has all of these attributes whilst maintaing a soft toning effect - giving the audience that glimpse of hope and warmth that she may survive her ordeal.

Hence why I chose this as my final image for my second poster.

Similarly to the production of poster one, here I used Microsoft Publisher as the publication where I created my work. This enabled me to lay out all images and fonts next to one another to see which worked and which didn't. This was the most efficient and effective method of creating the posters.

Here is the final product of my second poster.

Another reason why I decided to create two posters is not only because they can both represent different aspects of my film but also because my teacker's can decide which is my better piece of work and so decide which piece to mark and submit.