Showcase Feedback (Written response)

During the showcase everyone had a feedback form to fill out containing four questions:

• What did you understand about the narrative? (Quick synopsis)
• Did the chosen genre fit its conventions?
• How did the 'ending' make you feel?
• Any suggestions for improvements, if we were to shoot the whole thing again?

Overall we received 38 responses and 23 of them had a form of criticism.

I created this bar chart showing the types of criticism we received.

Lighting was mainly about how dim our opening sequence was and it should be a little brighter to make things clearer, however we wanted it dark to fit the conventions of our genre and also make the audience question what is going on.

Camera was about the camera quality and how it was slightly grainy, but this is because it was filmed in the dark.

Speech related to the fact that we were not clear enough when talking.

We also received 6 unique responses.

• More shots of the boy investigating
• Re-think about how to end the opening
• Film landscape, not portrait
• Better environment maybe? More of an office would be cool
• Title fonts
• When the video clips are bad quality looks like Snapchat quality

Regarding the ending of the sequence I stick by how we ended it because the boy rushes off in a hurry. This makes the audience question why the phone call made him leave and it makes them want to watch more to find out.

For the filming comments, we did use Snapchat to film our handheld clips because it is realistic as to what teenagers would do. It is rare that teenagers will film themselves in the park on a traditional video camera, they would use Snapchat on their phones in landscape mode.