5) How did you attract/address your audience?

After finishing and exporting the film I put a link to the YouTube video on my personal Tumblr blog and asked my followers if they could view it and send me their views on the project and to fill in a modified version and retweaked version of the original questionnaire I created here (x).

 

The majority of people who filled in the questionnaire with positive feedback were adolescents ranging from 15-19 in age.

Comments from the older demographic involved things such as;

“The protagonist, Nick looks too young.”

“These plot tropes have been overused.”

But other more encouraging comments included;

“This is a good attempt at creating the introductory scene of a movie – I’d watch it.”

In order to address these dissatisfactions, we would probably have to refilm and shoot everything again but with a better suited actor to fit the role as well as better make-up / costume design to give the impression of a more mature in-depth character rather than stables of youth culture such as hoodies... However, the audience feel that Faye’s character was well constructed mise-en-scene wise and I feel that Faye is a good character. Other things that people liked in particular was the overall tone and feel of the film but wanted to see better camerawork and more angles.

In future productions I will take all of this into consideration and add more interesting, variant editing such as a graphic match to convey meaning such as in Psycho’s famous shower scene. I think that Enslaved can be heavily improved and as I have a perfectionist mindset I feel as though everything is deeply flawed and I struggled a lot during editing and shooting in trying to get everyone to understand my perfectionism. I feel that my inexperience with camera equipment, time schedules and editing software held quite a few drawbacks in these aspects.

- Pictured here is the graphic match used in Psycho