Audience feedback

Audience feedback

For our group, audience feedback was essential. through screening our thriller to our target audience, we were able to assess their reactions and consider their opinions as to how well our thriller met, and appealed to their needs. This enabled us to form a better understanding of how we could adapt our thriller, making it as appealing as possible to the target audience. 

When considering how we would screen our thriller to the target audience, we decided that it would be easiest to gather members of the target audience together and screen our film to all of them at once. We therefore decided to use a classroom after school hours as we knew that our target audience would be free at this time. We invited 40 members of our target audience to watch the film, before giving them some paper to write down two positive, and two negative comments about the thriller. Once the screening was over, we reviewed all of the comments and focused on the four most common ideas. 

YouTube aided us in the screening as we were able to upload it to the site, making it visible to a wide population. This meant that more members of the target audience were able to see the film. Below the video, viewers have the opportunity to make comments about the film, providing us with extra, detailed, and instant comments. 

Once we had collected all of the comments from the target audience, we read through them all and found the four most common, two positive, and two negative.

These were:

Positive:

  - The thriller has a good narrative. It is easy to follow and captures the attention of the audience quickly, ensuring that they are fully enticed into finding out what will happen to the main character as she is pursued by her stalker.
- The over the shoulder shots are effective in showing the scene from the point of view of the attacker, and highlight to the audience how much danger the victim is in. In turn, this is effective in building suspense within the scene.
Negative:

- The lack of violence took suspense away from the narrative and caused an anti climax.
- The film should have included more close up shots in order to fully highlight and express the feelings of the main character, to enable the audience to empathise with her.

From these comments, we were able to make changes to our thriller to be able to better meet the needs of our target audience.