First Storyboard Draft- Audience Feedback

When we presented our first draft to our audience and explained our story-line, props, actors etc. they gave us constructive criticism and good points about our final piece.

Even Better If

Overall, the audience told us that we should not include the 'muddy, bloody footprints' in our final shots due to the concept appearing unrealistic and not following our story-line. As a group, we decided to just make the boots muddy to make the killer appear to live in a dirty and isolated area.

When we told them some of our other shots, such as the 'bloody water' shot and the 'stab' shot, they recommended to us that we practise those and experiment with different methods of creating those shots before filming, so that they look realistic and so they we know exactly how to create them on the day of filming so that it saves time. As a result of this feedback, we have created a blog for each of the experiments.

One of the questions asked to our group after our presentation was regarding the music that the victim will be listening to. Here is a link to my blog explaining the song that we have chosen: Song for Our Opening Scene Blog. The audience told us that we needed to decide on a song quickly because we needed to experiment with manipulating this. As a result we decided on the song and I also did a separate blog on manipulating the sound: Sound Manipulation Blog.

What Went Well

Although the audience gave us some constructive criticism and some points to think about, they also gave us some positive feedback. One of these were that we have good creative shots in our blog, such as the sound manipulation and the use of the 'in headphone' sound effect (where the music is playing diegetically but sounds as if it is being heard through someone else's headphones).

The audience also liked our creative and effective angles and shots. The shots will make the difference between a strong and a weak piece of coursework.

A final positive point that the audience fed-back to us was that they liked one of our title options of 'Silent Killer'. The said that this was the best one and conforms to common slasher film titles, however, they did not like the other titles, especially 'Eye-Spy' as they believe that this was going 'off-topic' in regards to our story-line.