Feedback from Draft

To get feedback from our peers we had to set up our video on a computer and allow each other film team to view it and give comments and constructive advice, their responses were laid out as:
Name:
Audience:
Successes:
Improvements:
Comments:
Level:
Most of the feedback was brief but still extremely helpful in showing us key areas of failures and needed improvements, these were generally pointed out by just key words such as 'Lighting' but this helped us list the problems and reassess the video our selves with these aspects in mind.
The most mentioned problem was the lighting which was said to be poor and lacking 'close to the end of the film', this was by far our worst problem. Other points raised were the lack of music and titles which didn't give the film much presence and left them feeling confused. And finally a small comment was made on how the actors looked too young, but this was the least of our worries.
However out of the bad points many good points were raised such as the use of shots which were 'constantly changing a different' and the clever use of a new board in part of the filming. but oddly enough one of our peers thought that the lighting was great and a clever use of the dark was used, we put this down to sympathy and took little notice.
The final comment each peer would leave was a grade, for the filming a 1 is the worst possible and a 4 is an epic success. We averaged a measly 2 but had a few 3s creeping in which shows how close we were to a success.

Finally was our teacher's feedback which came in a much smarter format and gave extremely blunt yet in formative advice, they cleared up the problems with lighting and music but then started to comment on deeper and more pressing issues we should have looked into. Firstly was the comment on how the chase was too long and left them feeling bored, even with music very little suspense would be achieved. Then to resolve this they pointed out that the problem was lack of narrative which would have been presented in our film with flashbacks (unfortunately we never got round to that bit). A quote given in person from our practical teacher was 'just looks like a couple of guys playing tig' in a really ironic way we found this to be the most constructive comment made. The final addition was asking for more 'dramatic tension' which they said would be achieved by giving a close up of the gun.
With all this in mind me and Ollie decided it was best to start again with a new idea and learn from all the obvious mistakes made to produce something quite different to a chase.
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