Feedback of opening scene (First Draft):

Feedback

I looked over feedback given from five groups of the audience which viewed our scene, to see whether or not they knew the genre from just watching the scene, things they liked and also things that they believed needed to be improved.

Genre:

1. horror/psychological (psychological slasher)
2. slasher horror
3. slasher horror
4. slalsher horror
5. horror (slasher)

The genre of our opening scene was a psychological slasher horror. The feedback shows that the genre is fairly clear to the audience, and from the very beginning the audience can tell what kind of scene it is, and what kind of events it will involve.

Things they liked….

1. Good sound and layering (made it very eerie). Also stated that the use of the security camera, handheld shots and ghosting effect was effective. They also liked the choice of font and use of flashing images (flashbacks).
2. Like the use of jittering, as well as the animation of fire showing in our typography at the end.
3. Effective sound, which they believed built suspense, as well as good editing (cuts) and flickers of fire. They also liked the typography we created.
4. Tense suspenseful music, as well as use of flickering fire and font used for the titles. Also likes newspaper on the floor (used as a method of foreshadowing). As well as different camera effects we used.
5. Liked typography, as well as use of flickering fire. Also like death scene/when the killer appears.

Improvements:

1. Overuse of blurry ghosting effect.
2. More dramatic sound when the killer appears.
3. Sound could get louder to increase suspense.
4. Darker lighting in room.
5. Liquid is not clearly petrol, too much cctv effect.

As a group we agreed with numerous ones of these improvements and decided to alter our scene in order to fit in. We overlapped more music as the killer approached to build suspense and enable the audience to have a clearer understanding of the events that were occurring. We also decided that we agreed with the fact that the liquid being thrown on the victim was not clearly petrol so decided to insert some flashes of a petrol bottle in order to represent and clearly show what was happening.

However, we did take the other developments in to consideration but agreed that the use of CCTV was to show how someone was watching the victim. A form of foreshadowing how the character would end up the same as the people on the missing posters. As well as the use of the 'ghost effect'. This again was a method of foreshadowing, to represent how the character will soon end up as just another victim. We also considered the lighting. Since a common convention in horror/slasher/psychological films is dark lighting, even though this is the case we decided that since we set our scene in the late afternoon. Darkening the lighting would not be appropriate, it would also make it hard to see the graffiti on the walls and other props used to foreshadow events. We also believed the eerie feel to the location made it so that it did not have to be pitch black in order to look appropriate for the genre.

Pictures of feedback sheets:

Evaluation:

• Overall i believe the improvements given were fairly useful.
• Getting feedback allowed us to know what scenes were good and what scenes needed improving on, it allowed us to improve our sound and ensure that it does build suspense.
• The feedback also allowed us to acknowledge that we did need to add scenes of a fuel bottle, since we did think about it in the past but were not sure if we needed to.
• The feedback was fairly positive and allowed us to make numerous alterations, it also showed us that the genre was clear and that the audience understood that it was a slasher horror with psychological aspects.