Audience Feedback

Audience Feedback from Holly Jones on Vimeo.


For this task, I collected together three completely different people to view my finished media product. My partner and I asked questions relating to our film opening. From there we gathered their answers; what they liked, what they thought could be improved.

We also posted our text on facebook. Here are the responses we recieved:

From these comments and responses we have gathered useful feedback that will be considered and used thoughtfully within our evaluation.

Adjustments I Made To The Storyboard And Other Clips

During the filming of my opening, I found many faulty shots within my storyboard. Some showed unwanted background; others didn't let in enough light. During editing I found more bad shots and decided to omit them. An example of one of these would be the match-on-action of the nurse flipping over a piece of paper on the clipboard. It looked very disjointed and unprofessional. Cutting the second shot of the nurse flipping the paper means we could still have a match-on-action from a mid shot of the character to a close up of the nurse and inspector's feet. Whilst editing, I found that brightening of a film clip was possible if I just selected colour correction. I upped the brightness on the scenes of the Inspector's face to balance out the light coming in from behind the character and the shadows in front. This made the character's facial features and expressions a lot clearer.

I decided it was best to leave out Quinn Wakely's thoughts as the sound of the light bulb humming over the Inspector's dialogue was messy and incoherent as it was. I turned down the volume of the sound effect so the Inspector could be heard.

Test Shots

The Night Shift - Test Shots from Holly Jones on Vimeo.

My media partener and I visited one of the two settings we will be using in our film opening. We have decided to use my workshop-to-be as our Mental Institute. This is because the room is big, empty and has very good acoustics with a slight echoe to make dialogue sound more eerie. The walls are white and clean and the room on a whole is very bright, making it a perfect scene for an institute. When we filmed the test shots there was a lot of debrie around. This will be cleared away for filming.

We looked at two of the key angles we will be using in our opening. High angle mid-shots will be used for Quinn to focus on her blank facial expressions and show she is seemingly small and therefore vulnerable. For Inspector Hodges we used a low angle mid-shot to track his reactions to Quinn's behaviour and to show he is supposedly the authority figure in the film.

Doing these test shots and investigating the setting has helped my partener and I to plan effective camera angles. We have also learnt where and where not to film within the room; for instance, the inspector standing in front of the main window blocks out light in the foreground, making the Inspector's facial expressions unnoticable and reducing the quality of the overall opening.