Audience feedback

We wanted to know what everyone thinks of our thriller, get some useful feedback and see what they thought worked and what didn't. We printed out some questionnaire sheets, asked a random group of teenagers and asked them to watch our thriller then fill in the questions. The questions were: 1) What do you think the basic plot to this thriller is? 2) What do you think are the key strengths of this thriller and why? 3) How do you think this thriller could be made even more effective and why?

Answers for the first question were all very close, people easily get the idea of the detective plot (but we should have made a clearer relationship between the detective and the femme fatal because few people remarked on it or noted it) and a lot of people mentioned that "it reminded them of a thriller from the 1940s which was exactly what we wanted so we are very happy and our efforts of making it looking like the 1940s paid back.

The comments about the key strengths of our thriller mainly are mainly compliments about the soundtrack, how it fits really well with the time and effectively helped building tension, Emma Smith said "the music is very atmospheric and effective". Once again the set was mentioned a lot of times, saying it was very well made and realistic as a detectives office.

For the last question there were two answers in particular that were most consistent and that we also as a group agree to, 1) People commented on how the death scene (gun shot) could be a bit more realistic and if I could to make out thriller all over again I would do exactly that and spend more time on sorting out the murder and how realistic and effective it looks for the audience. 2) a lot of the people mentioned that the thriller should be in black and white and this is something that we ourselves are still deciding too, we originally thought that Film Noirs had to be in black and white however have since learnt otherwise and that many are in fact in color. Honestly We don’t like the colors in our thriller at this moment, they look kind of fake and it’s way too bright, but we also feel that a black and white filter would be way too simple and too obvious. Therefore we have decided to saturate the film considerably and that a cold blueish filter should be added to make it more effective.

Overall I feel very pleased with the feedbacks we’ve received and have taken into account the comments on the color of the film and will change this.