Evaluation - Audience Response

 

This is our audience response for our opening scene. We were happy that people picked up on certain choices we made such as not immediately showing our main character to show him as important and the focus of the scene. Other positives from audience feedback included the soundtrack used for the scene being fitting with the action on-screen and managing to leave enough information unknown at the end of the scene to create enigmas that would make the audience want to watch the rest of the film. Other praise centered on the titles we used for the scene which "made it feel like an opening 2 minutes," the wide variation of shots "especially the opening shot and the shot of the train," and the props such as the briefcase fitting well with the conventions of this genre.

 

Main criticisms were focused on the change in lighting towards the end of the scene, which was caused by time-restraints during production which unfortunately meant we had to continue filming even when the sun started to set. This made it harder to see what was going on, particularly characters expressions. Although we saw this as an unnavoidable mistake considering the circumstances during production, we would still endeavor to ensure this wouldn't happen for future productions by making sure we start filming at a time of year with plenty of sunlight, in a location without as much shade and at a time when there was plenty of time left in the day before the sunset. Another criticism was the soundtrack being too loud at the beginning of the scene, making dialogue hard to make out. We would change this in future by editing the sound of both the dialogue and music in post-production to make sure neither overpowers the other throughout the scene.