How does the audience feedback on your production confirm or disrupt your intensions for the sequence?

COMMENTS FROM THRILLER POSTED ON YOUTUBE(hurtwood house media channel) AS OF April 13, 2009


Most of these comments are from Hurtwood Media Students who were asked to analyze the finished video products of their peers…We looked at comments from a range of potential audience members and also analyzed the statistical info that is available when you use the you tube INSIGHT function:

GraceChadwick (1 day ago) “hey guys i like your film some of the shots that you have added i dont really think that you needed for the overal story line i like the colour of the shots ( that blue tint that you have) i felt that you could have had a bit more to the story line it takes a while to get into it but i like the overall product.”

This was from a media student so it was really helpful as she knew a lot of term and had a better understanding of the sequence. Gives us a good comment about blue tint but we could hurry it up a bit. I see what she means we could have shaved down some


THIS WAS FROM A STRANGER
SabretoothStitch (1 week ago)
“The weather starts rainy and stormy but after a second we see light which looks like sunshine - and then again. so there's no consistency with what's going on outside. i'd be nice to make the connection with outside gloomy, rainy, dark atmosphere with the man's physiological state he's in also dark and stormy”

We have good constructed comments on the co unity of the weather we did this to show his nervousness pathetic fallacy is done through rain, wind and storm it changes to show his mood and how he acts all the time.

simonrees5 (1 week ago)
“the sound was a bit hollow, was that intended? Would be good to have had one more second on the Kalms bottle shot. Really interesting clip though”A good comment as this person was hooked on the bottle pills and has lots of new ideas for us we had a good boost from the interesting

clipHHMedia2009
(1 day ago)
0 “Good use of ambient sound to create the storm outside. The narrative is also very good. However there should be credits.”These is really helpful; because I completely agree I wanted to add credits and I had a list to do it was time issues and to put them as it might not have been the introduction.

morvitus (1 day ago)
interesting production the background story is not explained and maybe the opening sequence would be more interesting if the audience would know why he is taking pills i personally liked the effect with the righting on the pill box, ipod and computer and I found it a very good idea to use this effect the only what was missing for me were the credits

This is great because I liked the shots of each item and the object they told a story and gave the character a lot of depth where was he from how did he get there what was he worried about all to do with his mental state and how he would react around all his objects and surrondings and what kind of sick guy would send hum messages of death through his own objects.

The aim of this essay is to analyse how the audience feedback on my production confirm or disrupt the intensions for the sequence. Over all is the audience feedback about our production positive and it confirms our confidence which we had on the shooting day. Some of the positive audience feedback points the mise-en-scene and the plot out. I also think that the mise-en-scene was one of our strengths but in contrary to that I thought that the plot would not be interesting and suspenseful enough for the opening sequence of a horror movie. That is why the feedback which points the good plot out disrupts my intensions. My intension was that we would improve the poor plot with the different camera shots and angels, the editing and the sound. On the other hand the feedback which says that the sound was weak and did not fit does not confirm my intensions for the sequence because I felt that the soundtrack fits entirely well with the sequence. I am also confirmed that the tracking shots worked entirely well in the sequence because of the feedback which proves my intension. The feedback shows also that we managed to transform the dolls into a scary object and to transfer to the audience the atmosphere of the sequence. These aspects of the sequence could have been a weakness of the production in my opinion. Another weakness could have been that the cuts and the shots would not produce suspense but the feedback shows that the scenes are as well composed to produce a suspense which is mainly a result of the cutting which was one of our strength as I think. The feedback also shows that the sequence reflects the work, time and effort we put in the editing to get the cuts perfect.