Storyboard - Audience Feedback

On Tuesday 29th November, we presented our first draft of our storyboard to our audience and explained our plot, props, actors etc. to them, so they could give us positives of our piece as well as some constructive criticism.

Positives

Our shots are good and creative and our blog posts explain well how we will edit the shots, for example the sound manipulation when the victim is listening to music in her earphones and the use of the 'in headphone' sound effect, in which the music is playing diegetically but sounds as if it is being heard through the headphones.

The audience also told us that they liked our shots and angles, which are creative and effective. This is important and useful feedback as the shots are what make the difference between strong and weak coursework.

The final positive bit of feedback from the audience was that we had a strong title option; 'Silent Killer'. We were told that this was the best one because it conforms to common slasher film titles yet doesn't give too much away, and that it was a lot stronger than our other title options, in particular 'Eye-Spy' as they thought that this didn't fully relate to our story line.

Constructive Criticism

The audience didn't think that we should include the 'muddy, bloody footprints' idea/shot in our final shots. This was because the concept seemed unrealistic and didn't fully follow our story line. Our group later decided stillt to make the boots muddy to make the killer appear to live in a dirty and isolated area, but not have a shot of the footprints.

The audience loved the idea of some of our other shots, such as the 'bloody water' shot and the 'stab' shot, however they did recommend that we practise these and experiment with different ways to create these shots before filming. This was so that they look as realistic as possible and so that we knew exactly how to create them on the day of filming which would save us time and allow us to be as productive as possible in a short amount of time. Following this feedback, some members in our group have created a blog to experiment with each of these shots.

After our presentation we were asked a question regarding the music that the victim would be listening to. A member our group did a blog post finding good in-copyrighted music and another deciding which one of these songs we should choose for our final piece. We were told that we needed to choose a song quickly so we could experiment and practice manipulating the song. As a result The song was decided on and there was also a blog post made on ideas on how to manipulate the song. I also did one on actually manipulating the sound, and deciding the most effective way it could be manipulated.