Audience Screening

Me and Naomi have finally managed to finish all the editing that was necessary for our audience screening, this has enabled us to carry out the next step towards our final edit of the documentary. We have received great critical, analytical and praiseworthy feedback from the people who we have showed it too. The audience's feedback was noticeable on their facial expressions and also through the written and verbal comments we've received. For example some of the students laughed at some of the answers given by the younger interviewee's of the documentary as they spoke in a very abrupt manner this was a great sense of relieve as we were worried that the controversy of the topic may have possibly caused an uproar within the classroom as students may have wanted to share their personal views, perceptions and opinions on the subject at hand. At the beginning of the audience screening we explained the purpose of the documentary the analysis and the aim. We also established the reasons in which we have asked them to have a look at the documentary we've produced, we honestly expressed that due to the fact that it was our personal documentary we have become too bias and attached to our piece of work to notice any flaws or errors therefore, we were in desperate need of an objective opinion of the public in order to help improve it. We also asked them to pick their favorite print advert as Naomi had originally designed three different ones and we found it too hard to specifically choose one out of the 3, therefore, we decided to rely upon the opinions of our public. The first question we asked was 'Did you enjoy the documentary?' 99% of our audience said 'Yes' and only one person said 'No' due to the fact that they felt as though it would not interest them because they are not mixed race themselves. We also asked what they liked the most many people loved the variety of the difference in opinions which we addressed in the documentary, they also liked the Happy Mixed Race Faces shown at the beginning to manifest the new upcoming 'race'. We also asked what they did not like many said the that they could not hear the introduction of the documentary as it sounded very echo like and this hindered the understanding of the documentary itself as this was the introduction. We have found out that people found the music very bias and they did not feel as though it contributed to the overall purpose and meaning of the documentary it sounded too subjective and one sided. The reason why we specifically choose the reggae music in the documentary is due to our target audience from the previous questionnaire that we done we found out that afro - Carribeans seemed most interested in the subject. However, due to the criticism we have received we'll have to change the music style. Many people also said that the titles were not big enough some did not stay on for long enough. We also failed to identify the speakers presented in the documentary so many people got confused with who was who. The audience also voted on the third print advert we presented they also mentioned that there was no changes necessary and it was just 'perfect' the way it was. Most of the people managed to identify our target audience by stating that it was for 16-25 however, they also felt as though any age range was able to watch it with pleasure. The main changes we was asked to make was to add new scenes on such as asking more people from outside the school environment for example, members of the public.