Audience Feedback

The group asked a few people within our target audience to give us some feedback on what they thought about our opening to the thriller "Out Of Focus". We asked them for one piece of positive feedback and one piece of negative feedback. Below is my explanation of the response they gave:

Samantha Milne (Aged 15)

Positive: Ending –When the screen blurs and title come up was praised
Negative: The intitial close up of the couple was too long. I agree with this point and was one of the things I had found wrong with it and wanted too change however Josh at the time had already started to upload it to Youtube so it was too late.

Lauren Farmer (Aged 16)

Positive: Praised the music
Negative: Thought the ending carried suspense- not sure why this was negative?

Henna Mistry (Aged 16)

Positive: Again praised the music, she thought it was very good and set the mood

Negative: Thought that the stalker should make it more obvious he is there by enhancing the ambient sound like having twigs snapping

Louise Pearson (Aged 17)

Positive: She really liked the dark atmosphere created through the mixture of black and white scenes and the music playing. She also liked the contrast between the action shots and the pans across the photos because it added more depth story and opening; she said it looked more like an obsession with the photos being used.
Negative: She said: 'In one of the shots cutting from Sophie and Tom, to Josh through the camera, Sophie changes position from cuddling Tom to looking at the camera, then back in the next shot. This disrupts the flow of the action because it's a little distracting. Also, in the last shot, it isn't totally clear Josh is running towards the 'couple' as the first few times I thought he was running away from them'

Laura Knighton (Aged 17)

Positive: She praised the music saying it 'was awesome', she also said 'the effects were very atmospheric and the end kept me in suspense '
Negative: She found some of the walking around a little repetitive