Audience Feedback

Audience Feedback

After the completion of our opening scene 'Cardboard City' we had a lesson in which the groups got together and peer-assessed each others work through a screen viewing of each one. Some sample reviews might be biased as the groups we worked alongside would've known about the genre and if it was a opening credit or scene, we eventually branched out the audience to others who had not known about the project and gave their two cents. The groups did however, manage to differentiate between a film opening or credit in this case.

Some good points brought out by the audience highlight the problems with the actual use of a montage itself, it doesn't provide a sufficient plot device for the story itself, especially considering how it subverts the common conventions of our genre in how the opening scenes are. This had many views question or confused by what the film was actually about. This was partly due to the way the shots were placed and how it ended up, we did have scenes in which we wanted to flesh out the character insight and backstory however due to the nature of the shots being subpar alongside the time limit we had, we decided against using them. Many had brought to light how the ending of the opening scene had been, they pointed out that it was random and sort of forced in a way, there was no build-up of suspense or tension before the shot and so it looked out of place. They suggested that maybe adding a reaction shot of the actors face could smoothen things up, saying "since it started with her, it should end with her' which we can get behind.

There were some mixed reviews on our choice of not implementing any background music (score), some said that the use of diegetic sound and dialogue to drive the narrative forward was a powerful tool however some said at times it got too quiet and felt a soundtrack could've told the story better.

Location was a point which many people bought up as a positive, they liked the variety we had and how every location looked different. This was because we had travelled quite a bit to take the shots we did, from London, Brixton, and around town. Comments on our use of the time-lapse were also made and how they like the use of it, the variety of camera angles we had it done in also was bought up giving the scene some flavour and not the same thing to look at as the montage progresses. Our variety of camera angles was a point many confirmed, especially the long shot in which the character is seen sitting up against the blue door with the flickering light. The contrast we added to the scene was to further the isolation of our protagonist, she is wearing dark dull colours while the colours around her are nice and vibrant.