The film industry audience is a hard one to please as there can be alot of variety when it comes to films, specifically when it comes to different genres. If one person likes rom-coms for example, they are most likely not going to like horror films maybe which makes it hard to come by. When it comes to what the audience wants, you can break it down into five categories genre pleasures, representational pleasures, style/aesthetic pleasures and narrative pleasures. In terms of our thriller, i feel that people would pick our film for the narrative and style/aesthetic pleasures as it has alot of variety in shot types, has very strong editing with lighting and fast pace cuts and the fact that most of the films story is left unanswered which leads to it being very enigmatic. With the bag being very mysterious and the story behind Edward doesn't reveal much, it builds up questions that i fell would keep the audience and want them to continue watching the film. With the main part of the enigma being the prop, it leaves a variety of questions flying around with what is in the bag, why it is so important and why would a teenage boy risk his life for it. in my opinion, that would keep alot of people watching on as there are some many things to learn from just the first two minutes of the film. Whether or not they get told straight away is also a mystery, with the story continuing, it could just go back to the being and so you learn later on the story with the end being the opening. Another strong area in the hopes that people continue to watch the film would be the story behind the main character. While not alot of the character is told in the first two minutes of the film. You do learn just by watching that he is very much an average boy that hasn't chosen to be in the situation he is. You can also see that he is very scared and has a sort of fragile mind in terms of fear with him getting thoughts of what might happen and being scared by just people walking down the street. with that in mind, i feel that it will make the more narrative pleasured people watch on and be interested in the whole film.
At the time of getting feedback for our rough cuts of the thrillers, mine was very much incomplete due to computer problems, but with what i did have i got some positive and negative comments back about things to improve and things that went well. One piece of positive feedback i got addressed the shot with Edward running down and around the corner and while doing so, placing his hand of the railing. When i came to editing that piece i knew from the start i wanted that to look smooth and to have the timing perfect, also i feel that shot reverse shots are a great way to break up shots and to add more variety which is what that scene needed. They also went on to say the shot with Edward walking back into the corner with nowhere to go, the shot was an interesting one as at the beginning of the shot Edwards figure and face is quite blurred. Obviously this was not planned, but i ended up using the shot and it worked out really well. following Edward into the corner was also interesting as we didn't use a dolly and so it was purely hand filmed, which help build on the effect of Edward stumbling back into the corner.
One piece of feedback was that the sound was quite bad in some places and that the wind levels were very loud over the natural sound of everything else. On several occasions i was told that the sound was the main problem and again mainly due to lack of progression because of the computer problems, but also from the wind. In response to several points about the sound i spent more time trying to fix it then i did editing because of how bad some of the recordings were. Luckily when filming, we had two cameras which meant while filming we could also get some sound with a microphone we had also brought. So to fix the problems, i had to take audio footage from clips and replace with others, i also had to overlap sounds sometimes. One piece of feedback said that when fixing the sound problems, try to keep in the raw sounds, which i did with most shots particularly with the bag shot. When it came to the shot of the bag with Edward gripping on to it tightly and opening, i had to take the good bits of the sound and mix it with other recordings we had done to get it right.
At the time of getting feedback for our rough cuts of the thrillers, mine was very much incomplete due to computer problems, but with what i did have i got some positive and negative comments back about things to improve and things that went well. One piece of positive feedback i got addressed the shot with Edward running down and around the corner and while doing so, placing his hand of the railing. When i came to editing that piece i knew from the start i wanted that to look smooth and to have the timing perfect, also i feel that shot reverse shots are a great way to break up shots and to add more variety which is what that scene needed. They also went on to say the shot with Edward walking back into the corner with nowhere to go, the shot was an interesting one as at the beginning of the shot Edwards figure and face is quite blurred. Obviously this was not planned, but i ended up using the shot and it worked out really well. following Edward into the corner was also interesting as we didn't use a dolly and so it was purely hand filmed, which help build on the effect of Edward stumbling back into the corner.
One piece of feedback was that the sound was quite bad in some places and that the wind levels were very loud over the natural sound of everything else. On several occasions i was told that the sound was the main problem and again mainly due to lack of progression because of the computer problems, but also from the wind. In response to several points about the sound i spent more time trying to fix it then i did editing because of how bad some of the recordings were. Luckily when filming, we had two cameras which meant while filming we could also get some sound with a microphone we had also brought. So to fix the problems, i had to take audio footage from clips and replace with others, i also had to overlap sounds sometimes. One piece of feedback said that when fixing the sound problems, try to keep in the raw sounds, which i did with most shots particularly with the bag shot. When it came to the shot of the bag with Edward gripping on to it tightly and opening, i had to take the good bits of the sound and mix it with other recordings we had done to get it right.
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