As part of our media coursework we were to create the opening two minutes of a film from the thriller genre. To be successful we had to gather back feedback from our target audience.
As a group we decided to receive constructive feedback at two different points, whilst we were still editing and after we had completed the final product. Receiving feedback from media students while we were still editing helped us realise where we had to change to improve our work. Parts that as a group we thought linked and worked well, to others did not make sense or thought of them as confusing the storyline. The media students then advised us to re-film the phone booth scene as they could notice cars in the background and the camera in the reflection of the phone booth window.
After we had completed our thriller we showed it again to our target audience, overall we were pleased with our final production and they seemed to be too from the positive response we received. They all thought that the idea of the thriller being located in a ‘deserted city’ was a good idea and all responded positively to how well we had filmed it and made it look deserted. Some even stated it was ‘excellent’. Sarah Panzetta adds ' I thought it was very clever how you manadged to make it look like london was empty, although people and veichles were really there'
However, they did also pick apart our thriller well and gave us some constructive feedback. One of the two parts they picked out as ‘bad’ was the establishing shot of the Gherkin building; they felt the tilt was not as steady as it should have been and a little shaky. They second point they made was that there wasn’t any dialogue within our thriller, however once they watched it again and we explained to them that we didn’t want to give away any possible twists or enigmas; they agreed that this was a good idea. We also explained that the establishing shot was shaky because of the faulty tripod we were using.
By Joseph Mulhare and Kerry Sheehan
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