Advanced Portfolio Evaluation - Jess Garman - Question 3

• What have you learned from your Audience feedback?
  
  
  We have attempted to get audience feedback from our film by doing various private viewings of it to our peers. We have also posted it on our blog and facebook site and asked for feedback on the following: mis en scene, camera work, editing, and if it sticks to the social realism genre. We also plan on showing our Media studies class and doing having our peers rate it out of five and leave comments. So far all feedback has been generally positive; however we are yet to develop our conclusive evidence.
  
  Here are some of the comments from our Facebook page.
  
  http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=276450286849&ref=ts
  
  Georgia Hannan I thought it was brilliant guys. I loved all of it, the voice over was so good. I loved all the diagetic beach sounds and thought the editing was just amazing, you can tell how much work you guys have put into it and you should all be super proud of yourselves. If I had to say one bad point, it would only be that befor...e reading the description I wasnt too sure what was going on - as in I didnt understand that he had run away from home. But thats likely to just be me, other than that I thought the film went together perfectly, the scenes seemed to follow each other so well. Sorry I cant give you more media language, but it really was great girls, xxxx
  
  We also used our facebook site in terms of initial research. For example the following comment gave us the idea for the shot used in our film. Where the main character is sitting on a bus stop.
  
  RemoveNicole Jepson You could have a really nice shot of him going and sitting at a bus stop (maybe a shot from the other side of the road would look good)
  and he looks like hes waiting for a bus but then you have a bunch of jump cuts showing all the different busses going passt him and hes not getting on.. because he doesnt know where to ...go perhaps.
  and then after a few buses have passed (idealy hes sitting alone at this point) he gets up looking real sad and walks off shot.
  awh bless him lol
  good luck.
  xxxSee more
  
  01 February at 14:44 · Comment ·UnlikeLike · View feedback (4)Hide feedback (4) · ReportYou and Charlea Ann Riceannpea like this..Jess Garman Thank you Nicole, that was such an awesome comment it has its own post on our blog! xx
  06 February at 09:09 · .Nicole Jepson oh yes xD
  06 February at 09:49 ·
  
  
  
  I did a several private screenings of our film to peers and family members in order to get more feedback.
  
  The general comments were positive. However our main negative feedback was that
  
• Could not follow the voiceover the whole way through
• Did not know who the Grandad character was, and why he was being shown before he came in, confused him with the boys dad.
• The pace being too slow
• Did not approve of the use of the word 'Shit' said by a young boy.

We also put our film on youtube hoping for comments however did not recieve any.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7A-kN70gXU