Audience

Our short film is designed to target a more niche audience, people who are interested in short film and go out of their way to watch it. Not having a mainstream audience means that we don't have to make a film to attract an audience, enthusiasts are our target so we made the short look how we wanted it to. The short has a quirky narrative involving a television stalking a man, this different style of story is what we wanted to make adding a comedic side to it helps engage an audience keeping them entertained and laughing. The music for the short i feel fits well, the start piece is slow blues guitar which sets the mood for the short giving it pace and style completely miss-guiding the audience from what the are to expect. The music that plays when the television is stalking the main character gives great comedic effect, it engages the audience and has perfect timing i feel this is a great pull factor to our short. At the start the pace is slow fitting with the music but when you see the telly for the first time the pace picks up and become really engaging for the audience, but towards the end it slows down and i feel the slow end is the weak point of our short and the audience can start to loose interest.

As a group we showed our short film to a class of year 12 student, students who have not been taught about short film all they know is what they have seen in their own time. After the screening we gave them a questionnaire (group blog) to gain some feed back and the outcome was pretty positive. The feedback showed the audience had i miss understanding off the moral message, we tried to give the impression of technology grip on society today but only two or three got that from the film. They also said the cuts between the stakling looked a bit naff and the end got a bit slow and uninteresting, which is fair enough as i also feel that theese were the film weak points aswell. Overall i think the feedback was pretty positive, they enjoyed the film and a lot said they liked the fact their was an older person playing the main character as it made it look less student like.

The short was posted onto youtube, facebook and vimeo, i did ask people to comment on it but there was only one person to comment was simons mum so there wasnt much interst online. I could have pushed it more but if people wern't intrested i didn't want to force it down them also i was happy with what the year 12 said, if the evaluation had more time i feel people would have stumbled across it and gave feedback.