Criticism for Short film

After creating an edit that was ready for public evaluation, we showed people the short film in order to find out what they thought the positives and negatives of the clip, as well as what could be changed to the negatives to make the film better, from their opinion. The people whom we asked their opinion where between the ages of 17 and 19, all of which are in the barrier of our target audience, and so their opinion as to wether the short film had an effect on them would be important for us and showed wether we achieved what we had set out to do.
                                                   


Dominic Byrne, 17
"What was good was the consistent themes and performance. it was well executed and looked professional."
"However, the plot was slightly Generic and the locations were dull, adding an extra scene with a different location would make it more interesting"

 Charlie Hermans, 18
"It was very well edited with the split-screen, but the audio was inconsistent, you should extend it and modify the audio levels"



Joe Power, 17
"The short film was well edited and I like the how the split-screen works, but the music was annoying, either quieten it or change it."



Joshua Asto, 17
"The different perspectives of the characters live made it very interesting to watch and the humour was executed greatly. I would have liked if the story had another scene to show what else happened in his life, and i think another scene would make the film easier to understand"


What we have learnt from the criticism was that the short film was shorter than most audiences would have liked, and that there are some minor issues with audio to be taken into account on our next edit. However, we feel that the short film is the optimum length, as to extend the film any further would have hindered the effectiveness of the film for the message it was trying to give, although, the scene when the ghost appears could have been changed to inform the audience that he is in fact a ghost of his future rather than just him, as that was the main issue that people had comprehending. This also can be mended with either another scene at the start of "The Ghosts" appearance, or by a witty comeback in a voiceover  in which Marks character is talking to the ghost. Both will be taken into consideration.

This Comment in feedback was useful for us as it had been seen by a viewer that we had credited the wrong person in the credits, which could have been quite humiliating had we not amended this. Moreover, having previously been a Media Student, Regan was able to understand forms and conventions as well, as the way cinematography works, which gave us an advantage as he was part of our target audience, but also has an understanding of media studies giving us a well understood evaluation of our film.








This also was a usefully example of audience feedback. This viewer had pointed out that the credit titles used were not as professional as say a feature length film. This gave us the idea to go back and change this, to give a black background with white writing upon it, giving that more professional look.