1. What are your overall thoughts of the film?
2. What are your overall thoughts of the film?
3.What did you think about the two settings?
4.What is your opinion on the sound in the film?
5. What do you think could be improved on?
Showing posts with label Audience. Show all posts
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From when we were researching Goldilocks' costume for Just Right we came across several different outfits but all around the same blue and white theme. On the descriptions of these outfits there was a common occurrence of people writing 'works just as well for a Alice in Wonderland or Dorothy costume' or other similar characters appearing all together.
After finding this we showed our audience this photo:
We then asked them which fairytale character they thought it belonged to, the results were a mix of Goldilocks, Alice in Wonderland and Dorothys with no majority. Due to Goldiclosk already having the blonde curly hair we didn't want her to have a yellow dress as well so wanted to stick with the blue dress. We will therefore be having to rely on other elements around the costume of Golidlocks on the ancillary task poster.
We want to create a curiosity with our audience so they are intrigues about the character and plot rather than be confused as to who it is and be asking the wrong questions. By having the bear in the shot in the poster and the well known phrase from the fairytale 'just right' above the shot it should be clear to the audience who the character is. We are also using the conventions from the fantasy genre where the main character is the focus of the shot and the colouring (pitch black and pastel colours) are used to suggest the battle between good vs. evil.
Jasmine - FEMALE - 18
Prosopagnosia Questions - Audience Research
- What was your favourite element of the film?
The lighting created interesting shadows which helped identify the genre of the film
- What were your thoughts on the cross cut/parallel editing between scenes?
I found it slightly confusing, I’d prefer it if there was more story conveyed in the first scene before they cut to different ones.
- Did you like the darkness in lighting during the interrogation?
Yes.
- How did you feel in the close up shots of the main character?
Felt he was slightly crazy, but also felt sympathy towards him as he was clearly distressed.
The Gatherer Questions - Audience Research
- What was your favourite element of the film?
I liked the extreme psychopathic character, because it made the film more engaging.
- What were your thoughts on the cross cut/parallel editing between scenes compared to prosopagnosia?
I preferred it in this one compared to prosopagnosia, it was easier to follow in this film.
- Did you like the darkness in lighting compared to prosopagnosia during the interrogation?
I preferred the more extreme darkness in prosopagnosia.
- Which differences did you prefer in the interrogation scenes between this film and prosopagnosia?
I liked the use of props in this interrogation as it added to the storyline and made it more visually interesting. I liked the humming and banging the handcuffs compared to the generic soundtrack in prosopagnosia.
- How did you feel in the close up shots of the main character?
Uneasy, wasn’t any sympathy for this character, he just freaked me out a bit.
The audience of any form of media involve themselves in the consumption of it for a specific reason. For our short film our audience will want to watch it for several reasons. Firstly, the title of our film ‘Just Right’ already gives insight into what the film might be about, especially if they remember their fairy tales. Goldilocks is a very well known fairy-tale and the audience will have an existing idea as to what the story might be about and therefore they may watch our film to confirm their idea of the film, or out of excitement and curiosity - too see if it isn’t. We hope that our film doesn’t confirm anyone’s initial thoughts about it as we believe it is an original twist on the fairy tale, especially with setting as we don’t show any shots of the woods or the Bears’ cottage (what most people would assume would be included).
Secondly, they could watch it to be inspired to make their own film or develop a story of their own that could be along the same premise or idea of twisting a fairy tale. As our movie isn’t like the other twisted fairytales where they just re-enact the story but darker, it tells another story based on the aftermath or a fairy tale - its can inspire people to take stories further and think outside the box. We also create costumes and adapt hair and make-up in our movie, with this we rely heavily on lighting to enhance the tension and atmosphere and we’re using different cameras and settings (e.g a go-pro fish-eye setting) therefore our mis-en-scene could also encourage other film makers or artists to experiment with the look of their projects rather than relying on dialogue alone.
Our audience may also want to feel like they belong to a certain social group. As our film is based off an existing story, they need to know about the fairy tale if they’re going to understand aspects of our movie. If they know the details of the fairy tale and they watch our film, they would feel as if they’re ‘in the know' and get the ‘inside joke’ and therefore will feel included within the movie. This reason links with the reception theory, where the producers (Zoe and I) construct the text (our film) encoded with a meaning or message that we want to convey to the audience. In some instances the audience will correctly decode the message/meaning and understand what we’re trying to say. If they know the fairy tale, the message with correctly be decoded.
All of our reasons do all link with the Uses and Gratifications model audience theory, where the audience is active and the theory is emphasising what the audience do with the film and how and why they use it. The audience may want to be satisfied or challenged with the result of the film, or they may want to be inspired and learn from how we made the film and what its about - then using the information they learn from it.
I have written our first of two surveys looking into our audience for our short film. This survey is just a general questionnaire, to get a grasp on age group, gender and the main elements of short films they enjoy. We will be sharing this survey via social media and face to face questioning, once we have our data from this survey we will be contacting the people who said they enjoyed crime and thriller most (if they want us to contact them) and will give them our second 'in depth' survey looking into the finer details and preferences of the genre.
Short Film Questionnaire: http://www.stellarsurvey.com/s.aspx?u=69C5A6A0-D8E5-433C-B626-66339211EA38&
- Which age category would be applicable to you?
12-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70+
2. Are you:
Male Female
3. Do you watch short films?
Yes No
3a. If not, why not?
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4. How regularly do you watch short films?
Daily Weekly Monthly Few times a year
5. Rank from 1-6 (1 being the best) your preferred genre.
Crime _
Thriller _
Horror _
Comedy _
Romance _
Tragedy _
6. Whats your favourite aspect of your first choice?
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7. In your opinion what are the 3 most important things you look for in a short film?
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(2)
(3)
8. Would you be happy for us to contact you in the future depending on your answers?
Yes No
If yes, please provide contact:
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Please email your response back to jol0611@gordanoschool.org.uk
Thank you for your time.
Jess Olson
VOTES: 29
VOTES: 20
VOTES: 12
VOTES: 4
From our results we can see the publics favourite choice of of the 4, we particularly like this choice as you can't see the girls face and it adds an element of mystery to it. In addiction to this, she is hugging the bear, suggesting friendship and innocence, we will be testing out different colour schemes and effects to the pictures that we will take with our actress to suggest darker connotations that link with the short film. We will experiment with different shots as well including the focus, the enhanced/weakened definition of the colour however we will be keeping the same pose at the bottom of the shot in a medium-long shot.
We will also play around with our text (whats actually written, size of font etc.) as we have a lot of room around the picture of Goldilocks and the bear. Once we have done this we will create a second survey to give back to our audience to vote on their favourite.
- All effects and editing were used in powerpoint.
