Evaluation Question 3 part 2

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

From looking at my audience feedback for the short film I have learnt a number of things. The first being that the narrative twist at the end was effective in it being unexpected by the audience and in Jakiya's case she is still trying to figure out the ending, showing its ambiguity to be successful. My personal opinion on the twist is that even though to most it was unexpected I believe I could have presented it better when it came to dialogue and on screen directions. At some points the film felt unclear as to where this twist was heading and although I wasn't aiming to 'spoon feed' the audience the narrative the story could have been slightly clearer in its intentions so that it wasn't too difficult for the audience to follow. For future pieces I create, I will improve upon this by adding in more deliberate scenes that leave larger clues as to what is happening and furthermore add more in depth twists to keep the audience engaged.

In terms of the sound editing and use of sound I found that all of the audience members believed it to be an effect micro-feature used to generate a tense and disturbing atmosphere to the short film, which in itself can be seen as a success. But in contrast to this there was one fatal flaw to it, most of the audience feed back I received consisted of the music and sound effects were at some points too loud and that the problem with this is that it can take away from the overall short film. For example in some sections of the short film characters dialogues were drowned out by the backing soundtrack and some sounds were so loud that it cause discomfort in the audience's ears. From this I have learnt that the levels of control on the sound should be adjusted and lowered so that they still create an eerie tone but must not consume the film.

In terms of the genre, I believe that we met the criteria of psychological thrillers codes and conventions. I included the same style of internal interrogation such as it is in 'Fight Club'. Even though we did not ask the audience on camera what genre they thought the short film was, each member guessed correctly. From this I believe that we successfully created an effective genre, the micro features I used in the short film consisted of the tight close camera angles creating a sense of claustrophobic and kept a non chronological narrative to create the confusion and disjointed atmosphere.

In terms of enigma I believe that I created a strong one when it came to who the characters were, the idea of making both characters the same person was a very unpredictable narrative device and from the likes on Facebook the audience enjoyed it. As for narrative a sense of dislocation was achieved throughout the narrative creating a powerful and thought provoking narrative.