Audience research and feedback from first draft part 2

As I said at the end of the last of the last post, the second half of getting feedback on the first draft to our Thriller opening would be to show it to someone in the local area who had more experience in this kind of field.

He came back to us having viewed it and said that we needed to do some work on the editing and add some more to it, more specifically:

Editing:

The Title needed to be moved back in the sequence - we originally had it put at the very end - because he said that made the opening look more like a trailer and in order to make the end more powerful it needed to cut more abruptly.

Some of the shots dragged on longer than was necessary which killed the suspense.

Even though it would seem a little more tedious to add in even more, we needed to include more titles in order to give sufficient credit to the everybody involved in making it for ALL of their roles.

There were some specific scenes which needed to be cut out (almost) completely because they were either filmed poorly or were utterly unnecessary.

Extra filming:

We needed to make sure that we showed Anna’s face to the camera a little more so that we could see more emotion added into the piece.

We needed to have more shots (e.g. newspaper cuttings/thought process in Anna’s mind) that eluded to what the end would be (without making it blatantly obvious) so as to add more tension to the piece.

Fixing the errors:

The editing was a relatively simple fix, I just needed to cut down on some of the clips, remove the rubbish ones, and move the titles around a little.

The filming was far more complicated seeing as it involved going out again and taking more shots which could then be added to the film.
(See filming day part 4 for details)