Class feedback from film

What do you like about our movie and please give feedback on things we can improve .... These are a few answers I got

'I liked the non diegetic music as it had a real cinematic effect. The quality was really good, and the colours, and fading of voices, intrigued me. I really enjoyed it and it was really creepy. I would have loved to see more.' I then asked if I was going to give some feedback on how to improve what would you say. 'would alter the voices too make them sounds more similar, as it sounds like more than one person, when it was supposed to be one.'
They also said that they liked how the suspense built up with the music. When it was at the climax, the music got to the loudest point, which enhanced the tension.
Another thing that a lot of people liked was at the beginning it was obvious I was in the car, due to the diegetic sound effect of the car and the light fading across my face showing I was in the boot of a car and the light symbolised other cars going past and street lights.
They said they liked the font. We were happy they said this as we had tried so hard to make it perfect.
They liked how at the end of the film we zoomed into the machinery, and that it was powerful.

Overall the feedback is very positive. I conducted a small survey asking 35 people to give their honest rating of my movie from 1 to 10 (10 being an amazing film), and asked them what they liked about the movie and what they would change. 

7 of the questioned people where aware of the synopsis to the film but the rest weren’t. The questioned people composed of:

• 4 close friends
• 3 family members
• 3 school teachers (2 of them teaching media)
• 5 people from my target audience
• 8 mutual friends
• 8 friends of friends 
• 4 strangers

Here are the results:

Then I asked them what they liked about the movie overall, the summary of what they all said is:

They really liked the colours, they said that "the colours are aesthetically appealing". 

They mentioned how the camera angles used in the film were very creative and helped tell the story better. 

A lot of the people mentioned how they where very curious to find out what happens to her next, and wanted to watch more. 

They all said that they really liked the music as well as the audio used in the movie, one of the teachers said that "it really suited the film". 

The voice acting was liked by most, no one said that they didn't like the quality of the voice acting and no one mentioned anything about the story being to confusing or hard to understand.

My target audience really like the cinematography and tension within the film, 3 of them said they were on their toes throughout the whole film. They also really enjoyed the finale and found it to be very effective, one of them said "when the camera shook I got shivers". 

Then I asked what they think I should change about the film, the summary of what they said is:

9 people said they think the opening shots were Love is on the floor and moves her head up should be angled different, most suggested that the camera should be closer to her or at a different point of view. I agree with their feedback and will improve on that in future projects. 

The people who did not know of the synopsis said that the voices were too similar and not distinct enough from each other. However, i then explained to them that that was intentional, some stuck with their statement, and some understood and found my intended effect to be very intriguing.

A lot of the viewers also mentioned how it did not make sense how Love got up immediately after she was confronted by Autem, they assumed she would be too scared to get up after what happened to her. However, I explained to them that in the Longer cut there is a scene where she experiences a panic attack directly after he leaves, she gets up to eventually confront him back. That scene was eventually cut out because of time saving reasons. They then understood the situation.

To finish off the feedback and to get a full scope of what people think of our opening sequence, Libby and I decided to present the film to our class mates to see what they think of it, this is their feedback: 




Conclusion:

To conclude I think the movie was an overall success, I, personally, am very proud with the final outcome. It is my first ever film, and I know I put the most possible amount of effort I could put into its creation, considering the film making experience, time, and resources I had to work with. I would personally rate my film at an 8 or 9, because, even though in a whole the film is very good, I can still think of many ways it could be improved, especially in the aspects of cinematography (camera angle, camera work, etc.) and clarity of story telling, and for any future projects those aspects will be the two things I will be keenly looking out for to improve and develop on.