Review on Success of Survery

Review

Back when we had just started up the ideas on what we wanted to do for our opening credits, we took to survey monkey to get a wide range of audience feedback onto what they'd like to see. Having already written a blog before on an analysis of the feedback, although we're still doing the same genre, it's a very different to the original ideas and drafts. 

The first question asked about the age range that the people wanted too see, the majority came at 18-24. While this is a big range we decided to go for younger as having a younger looking actor could heighten their isolation and vulnerability. One of out popular ideas for what an audience wanted to see the focus of the issue in our opening scene was about the problem with drugs, although this was favoured majorly by the audience we decided to go with the homeless theme instead. As for the feedback on props the audience wanted to see money, although this wouldn't be too hard to get our hands on we didn't go for it as obviously a homeless teen doesn't have much of this. Young and vulnerable was the most favoured option when asked what they wanted to the actor to look like, and this is exactly what we went for. Rap music was the most commonly picked answer to the question 'What type of music would you expect to hear in an urban drama?', and it could be said that this was probably a waste of a question as in the end we decided not to use music at all. 'Cardboard City', has absolutely no background track and plays just with the sound of diegetic sound and dialogue to drive the narrative froward, this was too make it seem as close to real as possible. For the title arrangement the audience expected too see a title no longer then 1-2 words long and we agree, 'Cardboard City' being the final name for our short piece. Lighting wise the audience wanted to see it filmed around the evening and we did exactly this through timing of filming and colour correction in post production. We wanted the mood of our film to lean more to the darker theme as we wanted to highlight the problems facing youth and homelessness, using a darker lighting meant it emphasised the vulnerability and dangers they face.

To conclude, you could say that using the feedback from the survey was a success as although we didn't take on all the ideas we do have key elements in the film which were directly affected by an audience.