A2 Media Studies: 2017

Thursday, 13 April 2017

Final Products

Evaluation: 4. How Did You Use Media Technologies In The Construction & Research, Planning & Evaluating Stages?

Evaluation: 3. What Have You Learned From Your Audience Feedback?

When it came to the audience feedback, I wanted to know what they liked about the film, disliked and what could be improved.

The first question that I asked was what they like about the film, and it was said that they liked how they understood the setting of the film, including the time period which was reflected in the clothing that they wore, e.g the dream sequence taking place in the 1920s as well as the beginning of the film taking place in the 1940s, Also, they understood the theme of the film and how it related to the narrative as well, with how it all fit together, i.e the dream taking place in the 1920s because of the fact that she had been reading a book before she fell asleep which was also set in this particular time period as well.

When asking about feedback on the parts of the film that they didn't like, it was said that there was a certain part of the film which looked and felt as though it was forced. This meant that the way I directed the scene could have been better to make it be less forced so that it would seem more natural and go with the flow of the film and it would come across this way in the final version of the film as well.

The main improvement that was suggested was to have more title cards used so that the viewer could understand what was being said, rather than not knowing what is being said due to the music playing on top and the fact that it is a silent film. The intention that I had was for the title cards to have the main dialogue that appeared to be important and stand out, which other silent films did at the time as they had title cards which also had dialogue which was important.

I have learned that including more title cards would be useful to an audience who haven't watched a silent film before, and aren't used to not hearing the dialogue being spoken, rather than just seeing it appear on a title card and not many appear to a certain extent.There is also the way I have shot certain scenes which look forced and that could be improved if I either filmed it differently at the time with realizing this or even editing it so that it wouldn't look this way.