Audience feedback

I spoke to a group of ten people  who had been given an initial idea of our film, the genre the synopsis and what we wanted our audience to feel after watching our film. I used a research method of a questionnaire to help sum up peoples general thoughts and comments after talking to them about my film, to make it easier to sum up and conclude the feedback.

In general the comments were positive although there were a few negative points about whether the story line was relate able for our audience or whether they would enjoy it. They thought the synopsis for the film was very good, and sounds enticing and they would happily watch it. When I asked if I was hitting the target audience they felt perhaps this film could be conceived for a slightly older audience due to the slightly dark story line. They liked the characters but a small amount of people felt the second actor lacked importance and could almost be seen as unnecessary. The location gave very positive feedback, because the location is local, the feedback was good, because it is familiar and relate able and in some ways makes my film seem more real to them.

I think I may need to improve in some areas. I think with the audience I may need to adapt the story line to fit a younger generation audience, because that is my original target audience. With the synopsis I am going to stick to my original idea because the feedback was positive, I am going to leave it as it is. I think I will give the second actor a much larger significant part, and perhaps have a few CU shots of the second actors face to add importance and significance to this character. I will also keep my location as the feedback was positive and I do not think I need to adapt it.

I am very happy with the feedback from the focus group and the evidence in the questionnaires. I will change and adapt the small areas in which the focus group found fault to better aim my film at my target audience of teenagers.