Evaluation - Question Three 

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

The Apple Mac computer that I used to edit and create my film on are all up in the music technology department on the other side of the school from where my media classroom is. This was good as It enabled me to regularly ask people from the drama and music department what they thought of my film so far and give me feedback on what to include and change. it was also good having people from a different department give me feedback on my films progression because I felt that they were totally honest with me whereas if I was to of asked someone in my media class their opinion on my film I feel that they would of been much more soft on giving me criticism as they are friends with me. 

I originally started filming back at the start in November with a male main character rather than a female one. The storyline was the same concept but a little different in some scenes although I was told by a few people that they thought that it would be more believable using a female as they come across as more vulnerable than a male and would face a day of bad events much more harshly. At first I was stubborn and ignored this criticism that I got from people and continued using a male main character although after long thought and consideration I decided to start again and use a female as my main character instead which I feel from watching my finished product is really effective. 

I asked people after they watched my whole short film what scenes were their favourite and why. a majority of people said that they enjoyed the scene where my character is walking along and her bag of shopping splits and spills out everywhere resulting in her having to put it all into the bin. This scene was one of the hardest to film during the creation of my short film as I did not realise how hard it would be to cause a bag to split, I had to cut a hole in the bottom of a plastic bag and gently tape the hole up balancing the milk and eggs on top. it took a number of attempts of my character walking towards the camera before we actually managed to get the bag to split and the eggs and milk to come pouring out across the path.

When I finished my short film and gave it to my teacher to watch and allowed her to show it to her English class to see their reactions. Along with my teacher everyone thought that the film was interesting with good editing and unexpected twist at the end. It was pleasurable to hear a whole class of people say good things about my work after I spent so long on it, but however I still felt that they were being bias due to the fact that both me and my teacher were present in the room as they gave me feedback. From this I decided to go and ask one of my school technicians to watch my short film up in the music Technology classroom and give me his honest opinion to what he liked best about my film and things I could maybe do to improve it.