Group: Audience Feedback

We presented our pitch to an audience to receive feedback on what they thought about our ideas and if anything needs to be reconsidered in order to make our opening the best it can be. 

The audience brought our attention to the following aspects of our opening which may need to be rethought, such as:

• making the party atmosphere look realistic and not staged - we will combat this by using actors who are friends so can act natural and be familiar with each other to avoid any possible awkwardness in the piece, we will make it very relaxed and act as if it were actually a party.
• filming on two different days as certain circumstances are not guarranteed to stay the same, such as weather, costumes, hair, etc. - in order to make the opening look as if it were filmed on the same day, we will ensure that everything is the same right down to the last detail and make sure that our actors know this too, however, we will try and get all the filming done in one evening, but we know this will be very pressurizing. in response to the issue about weather on the two different days, we will set another provisional date in order for the weather to look the same throughout.
• getting good shots on a motorbike might be difficult and look amateur - rather than trying to achieve static shots on the motorbike, we will be using handicam as we feel that this will be very effective because the audience will be positioned with the characters; as if they are on the motorbike too, but we will ensure that the motorbike isn't going too fast, not only for health and safety but to also allow the audience to absorb the characters' surroundings.
• there is potential not to get enough shots in the opening due to the fact that quite a lot of it is the party and the audience may get bored if there is no variety - we will storyboard loads of possible shots that we can include in the party scenes in order to not bore our audience and to keep it interesting, we will also enhance this by keeping the editing pace reasonably fast between different shots.

Despite this feedback we received, we also got a few positive comments about our ideas:

• the use of the handicam at the party will be very effective and almost make the audience feel like they're actually there witnessing the party - we are pleased that our audience think this because it involves them more and it also ensures us that they will not get bored whilst watching it.
• the way the time and battery power etc., will be shown on the screen of the handicam will make the opening look more realistic - realism in our piece has been our aim and priority since the beginning of the project and it is encouraging to see that our audience notice that.