Rough cut - Miss Georgiou

Audience feedback is important when creating a production because it tells us what is good about the production and what could be improved. Feedback is also important because it tells us the strengths and weaknesses of our production that we may not have noticed and certain things could be improved like lighting or sound. These feedback comments help us to identify what is wrong with certain scenes and allow us to correct them. It also allows us to see what the audience think of our production and whether they think it fits into the thriller genre and whether it thrills and engages them. This then allows us as a group to make any changes if the audience are not pleased with the production.

A rough cut is essential to carry out because it allows us as a group to decide if any changes need to be made and if the production that we made looks professional and engages the audience. 

We received audience feedback by putting our rough cut on YouTube and people commented what they think of the production. They gave us both positive feedback and negative feedback which then allows us to make any changes in order to create a production that is thrilling for the audience. We also received feedback from our teachers when making the production and they would say what they don't like about the production or what we need to change in order to make it more conventional. They would also tell us to add sounds or transitions in to make the sequence flow more and to make it look more professional. Throughout making our sequence, our group would constantly make comments about what we should add into the sequence and what we should take out. As a group we co-operated well when giving feedback and if one person didn't like something in the group then we wouldn't add it in. This ensured that our thriller sequence would engage and thrill the audience. Our group would be very critical about sounds and transitions that we added in. However this did help us when creating the production because it meant that we would choose a sound that everyone liked and that we thought was the most conventional to the thriller genre. Not only did our group give criticism, but the people in our class did too. This was useful when creating our final product because they said what they didn't like about the rough cut and what they thought could be added or taken out. By giving us feedback it meant that we kept our target audience pleased and they would become more engaged when watching our final product. 

This feedback helps me with my production because it tells me what I need to improve on and what I could do better in order to please my target audience. It has also allowed me to see what people think of our thriller from another perspective and allows the audience to notice any mistakes that we may have not noticed ourselves. Getting feedback would also help with the production industry, as before letting the production out to the public, it allows the industry to improve on their work in order for it to appeal to their target audience. It also lets people give opinions on the film and allow them to see what could be done to make it better or what has been done well. Likewise with our production, it gives the perspective from another view and this helps the industry as something that they thought was good, may not be good or engaging to the target audience and so this allows the industry to change it before releasing the final product.

"This is a good thriller sequence that is conventional to the thriller genre."

"This thriller is amazing, its so good and the techniques used makes it so engaging and conventional to the thriller genre"

"I liked your use of editing and I think you made a really good narrative that was easy to follow."

The main positive comments we got as a group was that our thriller opening sequence was very conventional. This is very useful when creating our thriller production as we know that we have included what the audience look for in a thriller. These comments have also been useful because it means that we don't have to change anything to our plot because the audience know straight away that our opening sequence belongs to the thriller genre. This has meant that our group has successfully completed the aim of the task and we have produced something that means that our target audience will be engaged into our production. Another good feedback we got was that the techniques we used were very good and this is also helpful as it means that our group has also created a thriller production that looks professional. This type of feedback is very useful when creating our production because it means that we don't have to add any more sounds or different types of shots because the audience are engaged into our sequence.

"it could use more edits and filters to increase the suspense created for the audience"

"I felt some of the sounds suddenly cut out whereas I think they should fade out to build up more suspense."

"the sounds are done really well in the beginning of the sequence but later on in the sequence the sounds don't fade in and out and don't feel like they are a part of the scene"

This feedback has also helped when making our final production because it tells us as a group that we need to create more suspense within the thriller film and this is so we engage our target audience. As a group we need to edit our thriller production and add certain things into it to make it seem more suspenseful. We need to add edits to build up tension within the audience and properly engage them into the sequence so that they are intrigued to watch till the end. This feedback has allowed our group to understand that our thriller production isn't as suspenseful as it could be and our group didn't pick up on that. We also got another negative comment which was to make sure our sound fades out. This is very useful because it means that we can make our thriller production more professional by fading out the sound instead of cutting it out. This also appeals to our target audience more as they feel like they are watching a proper thriller film.

The changes that we will make to our thriller sequence is that we are going to add more transitions in to the production in order to build suspense. An example of where we would add a transition and effect is during the flashbacks, as looking back on our production, the flashbacks are not clear enough and I feel as though the audience are going to get confused when they watch the thriller sequence.We are going to fade out the sound slowly so that our thriller sequence seems a lot more professional. This will appeal to our target audience more as they would be more intrigued to watch the thriller sequence to the end and they will enjoy the thriller sequence more if it looks professional and engages the audience.

To conclude, feedback is useful when releasing a rough cut because it allows you to spot mistakes that you may not have noticed before or take out anything that is deemed to be unconventional to the thriller genre. Film industries also release rough cuts for a small amount of people to watch as they want to know what the target audience think of their production and whether  it appeals to them or not. Rough cuts enable us to get positive and negative feedback which then allows us to decide what we need to change and what can stay the same.