Audience feedback

After listening to the feedback from the audience that watched our film, the main conclusion we came to is that beggining of our film is what let the film down, the audience pointed out that the music used at the start of the film made it seem more like a comedy than a thriller and this was not what we were aiming for. Also, it was said that the doctor seen walking through the house at the beggining took a very long time and started to bore the audience, most of the negative comments we recieved were about the opening scene and we realise that that particular paret of our film is the one that needs the most work. There was also some confusion about the initial storyline of our thriller film aswhen the father reappeared as a ghost there was confusion as to whether he was still alive or not. Overall the feedback that we recieved was positive apart from the comments shown above, the idea that we used of the supernatural was commented on as being very effective and different, and interested the audience, also, the enigma codes used seemed to work particularly well, as the audience commented thqat they were left wanting to know how the father died, and is he going to keep reappearing in his daughters life. One particular positive aspect for us as a group was the fact that the fahter daughter relationship between the two main characters was understood, and there were only subtle hints to this relationship but the audience caught onto this and commented it as a positive part of our film.

Analysis of completed sequence

Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?

In the opening to our thriller film we used such typical thriller conventions as enigma codes and partial vision to create suspense and keep the audience interested and on edge.Picture number one is an exapmle of an enigma code,as the camera is behind the character in this shot, this provokes questions from the audience such as 'Is someone behind her?'. Also, this shot came after the main character just saw her deceased father, and as her facial expressions cannot be seen, the audience is in the dark as to what she is feeling and what is going to happen in the next shot. This shot also creates suspension as the audience is wondering whether the character will turn around and see what, or who is behind her, also the audience are asking questions as the door slams and immediatley after, the characters father appears in front of her, the question is raised of 'How did he get there?', this also raises the sense about activities of the supernatural, which is a theme we wanted to convey through our thriller opening.
















This shot is another example of a way that we included an enigma code, as the audience is left wondering why the characters father has appeared and what he is going to do. We also incorporated the theme of villians into our film in a slight way, however we have developed our idea differently to in a typical thriller film, where the villian would not be related to the victim, as in our thriller the father is the 'villian' character and the daughter is seen as the victim.





The shot shown to the left is another image that uses enigma codes and also partial vision, questions would be raised by the audience as to how he got in the bath? and what is he there for?, as in the opening shots the father was declared dead. The shot is also an example of partial vision, as in our opening, the fathers head is only visible for a very short amount of time in the corner of the screen, this raises suspicion and raises the interests of the audience, making them want to watch on.