Feedback on First Showing

We showed our first cut of our film opening to a small audience, and the feedback we received has highlighted aspects that we need to improve.

Many people pointed out that a lot of sound was uneven,  too much silence was used in the wrong places, and although a lot of our diegetic sound worked very well, and the overlapping of our sound was regarded very highly, we needed to include other sounds such and breathing and breeze to fill unnecessary silences. 

Other things that we needed to work included, colouring in some shots, as the saturation had been brought down to far, pacing was slow at times, and some of the audience were slightly confused by our opening, but also intriuged which was an aim of our opening as we wanted the audience to want to find out had lead up to the shooting happening, and continue to watch the film if it was there.  The rest of the improvements that needed to be worked on have been and we know that our final cut has improved since this showing.

We also gained a lot of positive feedback from this showing, including comments on the quality of the camera work, variety of shots, framing and sound excluding silence.

Overall, showing the first cut of our film opening was very helpful, we took on board comments and have improved our opening accordingly.