Audience Feedback

Today we presented our final piece, ‘Imposter’ to the rest of our class to receive some feedback, we were given comments on forms and conventions (Editing, Cinematography, Mes-en-scene, sound) the narrative, characters, RAILING (representation, audience, ideology, language, industry and use of the genre). The audience’s reactions were a great way to see if our film really conveyed what we set out for it to do.
Most people thought the editing worked well, however some did not like how grainy and realistic we had made the sequence; they would have preferred a crisp smooth product. However, it was a 50/50 split and a number of people liked how raw it appeared. The titles were not really commented on, a few said they liked the font as it was simple yet stylistic.

Various members of the audience said the cinematography was high quality, they really enjoyed the extreme close-ups and they heighten the tension and emotion in the piece, the shots were realistic just like most film noir’s and not too impracticable similar to action or horror films. On the other hand, they did not like how it ended, some shots were missing as we didn’t have time to film them, they thought there could have been some shots of the other person watching her in the room, and because we didn’t see them it made our sequence edge towards the horror genre. Numerous shots were a success with the audience, favourites include the “camera as a mirror shot” and when the girl is writing in her diary and it changes into the wedding register.
The location worked well, the wedding looked realistic and they enjoyed the modern twist on it, with the costume; females in the audience were fond of the pixie boots and unruly hair, not a typical traditional wedding. Using stereotypical features, such as the actress downing the bottle of alcohol was effective as the audience obviously guessed she was depressed and upset. Nevertheless, they thought the bedroom was quite bare, ideas to improve this included placing a wedding photo or more makeup and little pieces would make the room look more 'homely'.

Sound in the piece went down extremely well, it’s was obviously not a typical noir theme, yet everyone thought it added to the emotion of the piece, the lyrics went well with the storyline, as well as the voiceover. The title and voiceover added to the enigma as the piece, it wasn’t too dramatic.
The characters we used weren’t too stereotypical in appearance but students agreed they would definitely relate to the target audience (15-24yr olds), the storyline is quite complicated but many of the audience got the main ideology of it and thought we used the conventions of film noir suitably, and liked how we had challenged them using modern costumes and a contemporary sound.

The audience watching concluded they would like to watch the whole of our film and we effectively filled our brief given at the beginning of the project.