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Audience Feedback
Despite this, many of the groups easily identified that the film opening was of the social realism genre with some overlapping to the urban drama genre due to the conventions that usually overlap between them.
This was done by our use of mise-en-scene that conforms to the social realism conventions by using real life sources and documentaries of homelessness to convey a realistic scenario we chose to base our opening around. Many liked the locations and specifically the flickering light scene behind the Gala Bingo in Maidstone. The colour was played around in post-production, and gained a good response. Sadly, we did have some slight issues were people felt that the costume was fairly new, but this is a bit hard to change. Furthermore, all of the responses understood the plot incredibly well.
Above: Long shot.
However, some responses said that the plot was not really built up. To some extent I agree with this, but social realisms are usually character driven and in films like "Trainspotting" and "Fish Tank" the protagonist and the environment that they live in is introduced with a vague plot before ending with something that will provoke the rest of the film. I think we conformed to this fairly well with the blunt ending of "scum", which almost suggests the start of drama that the rest of the supposed film will entail.
However, there was also some criticism that the ending is too sudden and jarring. Instead, the person suggested we could return to a reaction shot of Emma, as the film is character driven and should return to her. We decided not to act on this as others seemed to like the impact of the "scum".
Some felt that this dialogue was fairly quiet to have its impact. The mixed views on the volume of sound was seen throughout the responses and based on our own confusion when watching the viewing with our classmates, that made up half of the responses, we realised this was due to the clip's volume being adjusted between the viewings. Although, it was loud enough when on full volume and on the Mac we were closely sitting round to edit on, we deeded to increase the non diegetic sounds in case the audience initially turns down the volume due to the loud "CANE Productions" logo. Despite, this, the non diegetic sounds was mostly praised, while a couple suggested we should use music but as we think this could be due to them no hearing any sound, we decided not to include it. Also, it would lose its realism and subvert conventions of social realism films.
This production company title received a lot of responses saying about its low quality and illegibility. We thought this was because we added it in by downloading from "YouTube" where it was uploaded by myself. So, to solve this, I brought the higher quality file in to add instead. We at first attempted by having Angel alter the size and exposure, which slightly helped its legibility, however, the grain was emphasised. We even suggested on creating a new one which would be more fitting, but felt it was easier to continuing use a better quality one.
The production company fades to black and allows for the transition of another fade from black to the waking up scene. Someone queried if this was conventional, but we felt it eases the audience into the film opening, which enforces the juxtaposition with the harsher reality in the montage. The match on action that triggers this was also widely praised by many saying that it was tight.
On the other hand, the montage was commented on as being too fast. We liked the pace of it to further this harshness, so instead were more worried about the criticism that the montage made it seem more like title credits. This confusion could have also occurred form the title credits which we included. The title credits received fairly positive feedback along with the typography, though few tweaks about the size and the actual titles were made. We altered these and used credits influenced by "Maniac" and other deconstructions to support us.
Although, some were confused over the clip being credits or not, the actual opening was a continuous scene and we still felt that the montage conveys some kind of narrative. Unable to improve this now, we should have either planned a more conventional opening with continuous scenes or regimented a more obviously chronological montage. I think at the time the confusion and lack of decision around genre caused this to happen.
Though we tried to make it seem slightly chronological by having Emma walk from different locations to show her travel. Though these were all different shots some felt that they were still noticeable and repetitive along with the time lapses. Others however liked this time lapses, while one felt we should have kept the pace of the tube station clip normal. Agreeing to this, this was altered. Sadly like with the reaction shot of Emma at the end, we didn't have clips that were not similar and so continued using the current ones.
After these slight improvements the final video was published and can be viewed below:
The audience feedback that I discuss is seen below.
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