Audience Feedback Questionaire

1) Before watching the short film, what is your first impression of the title. 'at first sight'? What sort of genre did you expect from this title?

This question is at the start of the questionnaire because it is snout the persons first impression of the movie, we have done this as one of our main aims throughout the idea was to have a twist throughout the story to show an unexpected message being shown. It will also show us peoples stereotypical view of a romantic drama film, this will help us understand if we have conformed to these stereotypes or not.

2) From watching our short film, how realistically did you think we portrayed the situation of an abusive relationship? Was it believable or was it surreal? And why?

Many short films focus on real life situations in order to pass on an important message to their viewers just like our abusive relationship message. Therefore we wanted to make the film look as realistic as possible, through key features such as lighting and camera angles.

3) What part of the film do you think was done well and what sections did you think could have been improved?

As any project there are always improvements that could have been made, it is a good way of understanding what we did well in and what we were as confident in. This helps for further projects as well as shows us the most popular parts of the movie and what emotions, themes and genres were liked.

4) Do you think our choice of shots and camera angles were affective within the context of the film?

Camera angles play a massive part in the audiences view as it's all about what they are watching, with a variety of shots and angles the film it unlikely to be boring however we had to remain focused on being realistic as well. This meant we used natural shots such as medium length shots as well as the match on action shots, which show development of our skills as well as keep it entertaining. This question will also help us establish if the differences in angles and shots have had an emotional effect on the audience as well. For example the fast pace of the fight scene with quick disorientated shots.

5) Do you think the music used was suitable in the areas is has been used in which it emphasises the certain emotions in each scene.

A lot of our music is mostly used at the tension building parts of the movie when there is more emotion to be portrayed which is why we used crechendos, the music is used mainly to provoke the audiences reaction to the characters feelings.

6) How did you feel towards both the young girl and the boy in this short film? Who did you sympathise with and why?

There are two ways of looking at our movie and it's characters. The boy can be seen as the Gillian due to his abusive behaviour and the girl can be seen as innocent and naive. However some may sympathise with the boys sweetness and argue he only acts violent due to her constant pushing and he is first to hit. This question will give us a greater understanding of how the characters are perceived and if others may feel differently to them after we have pushed them to feel one way through scenes and music.