Audience

For a short film it is hard to pick a certain target audience. short films are watched and viewed by niche audiences whom normally hold an interest within them be it avant garde art house or political. our aim was to kill two birds with one stone and create something for a younger audiences due to there not being anything relevant about unlicensed cabs for younger adults as well bring a better awarness of short films to a younger audience. we planned to accomplish this by our style and editing as well as distrubution. through distrubution we posted our short on facebook as well as uploaded it to youtube and vimeo. this way it was a lot more accesible for a yougner audience. as well as this we passed the link onto our friends whom could then pass it on and give us some feedback. we used a scenario which isnt very well publicised for a younger audience and which is still very truthful. to bring aware the dangers in a short film young girls can emphasis with and understand may help them be much more cautious. through the costumes used and dialouge used and the type of actors chosen these will all appear to the wider target audience we aimed for. Overal from our questionnaires our aims were met and and the age group we had planned to aimed at found our video very intreserting and appealing.

1.To open our short film we started with a black screen with the main character starting her dialouge and then faded to the shot of her on the sofa talking, do you like this opening of our short film, if not do you have an idea of what could have been more effective?

Yes No

What could have been more effective:

The majority answered yes but also gave us feedback on how it could be even more effective. things such as leaving a longer pause when its black with diegetic sound of the up coming shot sould help create suspence.

2.‘Our goal was to show young people the dangers of getting into unlicensed cabs and to advise people to organise safer travel arrangements prior to a night out’

Did our storyline illustrate our aim suitably?

Yes No Could have been made clearer

all students said yes.

3.For the flashback scene of Felicity walking home after the attack did the experimentation with colour give the scene a good effect?

Yes No

the majority of our audiences liked this effect they sad it gave a perception of distorted relaity something in which they felt our character was experiencing.

4.Do you think the use of music would have added more to our short film?

Yes No

Reason Why:

this question brought the biggest debate. half said yes and half said no. the fact that we didnt even experiment with music or extra sounds is our fault as we didnt even investigate our options t maybe even improve our short film. some said that they feel it could have brought a much more intense effect to the plot and other said the helped create a much harsher piece.

5.We purposley didn’t include footage of the attack do you think withholding this scene makes the film more powerful? Or do you think it would have been more powerful with it?

With Without

again the majority of our audience said it worked better without. doing use scences always risks making your piece look less serious and rather immature and could spoil or even offend as it is an extremely serious topic. one person said the fact the she says she doesnt even remember is harsh enough.

6.In terms of entertainment, What did you find most effective in our short film and why?

Use of camera shots Locations Sound Actors Visual Effects

Reason Why:

things that the audience picked out was mostly the camera shots and choice of sound. a couple people also said that the choice of locations helped our piece as well as the choice of actor and the pub scenes.

overall i am extremely happy with everybodys responses. the feedback i have gather from not only this showing to the year 12's but on facebook and youtube as well as from our class has been really encouraging.