Further Audience feedback

For further audience feedback, we asked the participants in the previoous feedback and others who had watched our thriller to write down a few words that summed up our thriller. Using these words, I made a wordle. This is shown below;

Audience Feedback

In order to be able to analyse just how effective our thriller was, if effective at all, we asked several people for their opinions. In order to gain a more in depth and detailed response, rather than anylising the reults in just one way, our group have decided to show them in a variety of ways.

We decided to ask three people of different ages to first watch our thriller opening to get a variety of answers, they were 17, 21 and 38 years of age. After showing them our thriller opening, we asked them to answer some questions for us. The results we got are shown below;

What did you enjoy the most about the thriller?

Female, 17
"I enjoyed the scene where the girl was walking, trying to get a signal and then running back. I liked this because the editing matched the pace of plot, and built up tension."

Male, 21
"I liked the shots of the stalker's eyes, as it made us realise that the stalker was following the girls, and getting closer and closer to them."

Female, 38
"I like the opening, as I could see what was happening with the stalker, whilst the girls were setting off. This made me understand that the two sets of characters were related, and hinted at them meeting at some point in the film."

How do you think we could have improved the opening?

Female, 17
"I would have liked to have seen more of the other two girls, rather than the main one. I didn't really get to know them that much, and then they disappeared."

Male, 21
"The stalker's weapon was a bit unrealistic. I don't see how he managed to attack the two girls with his bare hands and a small piece of rope."

Female, 38
"The section where the girls walk from the house to the camp site is slightly slow. Maybe it would have been better to quicken it a bit."

Would you watch the remainder of the film?

Female, 17
"Yes, I want to see if the main girl dies or not."

Male, 21
"Yes. I want to know who the stalker is, and what happened to the two girls that went missing."

Female, 38
"No. Unfortunately, I don't see how the story could develop and continue for an extra hour or so."

Looking over the responses of the participants it could be said that our thriller was quite successful. Although the eldest participant we asked didn't seem interested in the thriller and thought it was ineffective. However, we did expect this due to the thriller being aimed at a younger age group. We therefore thought she would be least likely to enjoy the thriller out of the three participants we asked.

Final Thriller - LOST SIGNAL

Below is our final edited thriller opening, we believe we have done well and are extremely happy. We hope you enjoy it!!

Evaluation - Question 7

Looking back at the preliminary task, What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the product?



When we looked back over our preliminary task compared to our final thriller openning product, we noticed that we had made many mistakes and also that quite alot of the filming we actually used was of a poor standard and quality.

One example of this is the storyboard, due to the fact we did not have enough time in which to complete the storyboard for our preliminary task, we were unable to finish it, shown to the right. This meant whilst filming our preliminary task, we had to resort to making some of the filming up as we went along.This therefore, resulted in poor quality shots and lack of variation within them. Due to the incompletion of the storyboard in our preliminary task, we made sure we did not come across this problem whilst completing our thriller opening project. We made sure that before we started any filmning, the whole storyboard was complete and involved a variety of shots and angles within it. This also meant that while we were filming it was a lot easier as we had a step by step picture and word guide of what we wanted the shot tolook like and how to conduct it. Although we tried to stick by the storyboard as much as possible, a few spontaneous shots were added for last minute adjustments and to make the thriller more exciting and effective. This is shown below;

 Thriller storyboard;

Sound was also one of the major problems we struggled with whilst carrying out our preliminary task. when we edited our preliminary task, we were unable to hear the sound coming from the filmig asd we didn't know how to turn it on. This was a major stumbling block as we just guessed by sight where to cut the footage. This meant when listening to our finished product on youtube of our preliminary task, we realised that through many parts you could hear the director saying 'GO', there was a lack of continuity and also, some of the actual dialogue was cut off so there was no sound!

In order to make sure this did not ake place in our thriller opening we made sure before starting editing we used a computer with functioning speakers. We also learnt how to use the sound from previous peices of footage and continuing them into the next as sound bridges in order to improve the continuity and the overall sound and effect.We also learnt how to use dissolves and fades with our music and shots in order to make the thriller look more flowing and improve the continuity further and also, to give the thriller an overall more exciting and tense effect.

An other example of this was our actualy variety of the use of shots. The quality of our shots was something we felt as a group needed to be improved drastically. In our preliminary task, the camera seemed to jolt alot and also, our two pan shot in the preliminary task didn't seem to run smoothly or too a high standard. Furthermore, in our shot with the two characters walking round the corner towards the locker, you can see the person who is filming's reflection on the window infront. However, we had to include this in our preliminary task as we only took one shot of it because we were rushed for time. In order to overcome these problems we made sure that we filmed the same section of each part of the storyboard several times in order to get the shot perfect and to have a variety of shots to choose from to make the scenes flowed well.

We believe since completing our preliminary task on moving on to our thriller opening, our edited skills improved to a high standard. We learnt how to adjust the sound and as mentioned earlier involve fades and dissolves. We were able to explore finalcutexpress and learn more editing techniques and understand the different types of transitions.     

Evaluation - Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the thriller?

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Evaluation - Question 5

How did we attract/address our audience?

There are many ways in which I attracted the audience, one of which was through facebook. I used this in order to promote my survey, this seemed to work well as quite a few people answered it giving me a wider range of how I could make my thriller suitable and effective.

There are also a number of different ways in which we kept the audience engaged throughout by creating suspense and tension in order to keep them wanting more! As I have already mentioned in the previous question I used surveymoney in order to find our target audience and be able to identify with the character throughout our thriller opening. we used a female casted as the victim in order to suit our results of who would be more likely to watch a horror based thriller, the audience would be able to syphasise with the character and show fear for her. Also, we used actors of a similar age to those who answered the survey in order to further help them identify with the characters involved. Furthermore, we ensured all of our actors seemed 'ordinary' in order to make the film look as real as possible , as it would be more likely to be believed.  

We believe the location of our thriller was very effective due to the errieness of it. We used Eastbrook End Country Park in order to create this eerie effect. This was because the park is deserted and made an excellent effect creating suspense throughout. We believe our setting was perfect for our desired effect, deserted and isolated, creating not just suspense but tension, which were two of the audiences main important components of thrillers stated. This was effective as it would create the image that the protagonist would have no where or no one to run to if they were in danger, this would therefore keep the audience on the edge of their seating wanting to watch more and find out what happened. 


Moreover, the fact that our thriller ends on a ciffhanger would encourager the viewer to carry on watching. This leaves the audience with a number of unanswered questions including; What happened to the protagonist? Will she survive or die? Who is the antagonist? Where are the protagonists friends and what happened to them? And why is the antagonist stalking the protagonist?    

Evaluation - Question 4

Who would be the audience for our media product?

I have preiviously reasearched into the target audience through surveymonkey.com. This enabled us to discover what age group would be more likely to watch our thriller and the age group we should direct it at. I recieved 21 responses to my survey on surveymonkey, this is good as it means the results will be more reliable as there are more. Although, more responses would have made it even more reliable, I would have liked to have reached atleast 30 responses.

People would enjoy watching our thriller if relates to them in some way. For example we discovered that our target audience would more likely be for a female teenager aged between 16-25 years as there was a larger amount of people within this age group which answered the thriller survey. This is because they would be able to relate with the main character, the protagonist. This character was potrayed as weak and vulnerable and the female audience would be able to identify with this. 

Furthermore, in order to ensure we grabbed the audiences atention and kept them engaged and on the edge of their seat I involved a number of techniques that my surveymonkey revealed are key to an effective thriller. Below are some of the answers the people who responded gave us, this is produced on wordle.net;