Second Crit/Feedback

When Alex and I presented our experimental film; this time with the audience viewing the footage synced with the soundtrack for the first time, we received a lot more negative feedback than we had hoped. However, we took note of the feedback and criticism that was given in order to improve our piece for the final presentation next week.

Although there were some changes that we still wanted to make in the film that we had presented; such as the speed and number of the transitions, we still  hoped the audience and Debbie would visualise the direction that we were aiming for, as well as presenting a mixed feedback of positives and negatives. We hoped that the positive feedback we would receive would focus on the quality of the footage and audio and the concept of our piece, now that a visual narrative was presented. However, a lot of the feedback we received was about the negative aspect of the speed of the whole film and how the last scenes involving the drama/fight did not appeal to any of the audience.

We took all of this feedback from the Crit seminar and immediately began re-editing our experimental film. We spent many hours in the edit suites altering the speed of the narrative by adding more transitions and for one of these days we spent almost 8 hours to improve our film. We wanted to present our piece to the audience showing that we had taken their feedback on board and used it to improve our piece.

The majority of the positive feedback we received on the sticky notes focussed on the pull focus and shots included in the piece; one of the positives we were hoping for. Another positive feedback we found was the appeal of the colours used in our piece, which we are satisfied the audience noticed.

The majority of the negative feedback criticised the pace of the narrative and the ending of the piece, which we have decided to improve greatly after receiving this feedback in order to improve the film.