Audience Feedback

We asked a number of students in our class to watch the rough cut of our film opening and we then asked them for some feedback on improvements we could make.

We received these bits of feedback from people in our target market group of 15-24 year olds, and dominantly males.

• An obvious point made was that we needed to add music to our film
• Somebody pointed out that we needed to mute the volume of the sound on a few of our clips to keep continuity
• Somebody also pointed out that the red colour of one of the title fonts was brighter than the others

We made these adjustments as our final cut. First we imported the music that we had produced and then made sure that all video clips were muted. After this we added any non-diegetic sound effects such as the sharp cutting sound when the killer is about to be revealed behind the fridge door and some diegetic sounds like the alarm clock on the killer's phone going off to wake him up.

We also changed the colour of the fonts so that they were al similar, but it did not matter if they were exactly the same as it was meant to represent blood, so varying the colour of the fonts slightly added to the realism.

We also changed the production company shown in the opening of our film from 'Twisted Pictures' to 'New Line Cinema' as Twisted Pictures usually produce large blockbuster horror films and this did not fit with our film pitch. Therefore we altered this to a more appropriate company i.e. New Line Cinema. This company is more suited to our film as they have released and distributed some successful thriller films such as Se7en starring Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman and Gwyneth Paltrow.