AUDIENCE FEEDBACK

What to expect from the audience

I expected my primary audience to be sophisticated due to us aiming at A-B income brackets so they would want to challenge the stereotypes as they are active

An active audience??My primary audience feedback member was quite active in how he noticed some stereotypes but wasn't as active as I suspected him to be. He didn’t seem uncomfortable meaning that we may have overestimated our audience.

Both my primary and secondary members thought that the business man looked out of place, however oddly my primary audience member didn't think that Ethan dressed too stereotypical as he thought he could have not been poor and wasn’t represented like that as well as it could have been.

Active audience membersMy primary audience member noticed how he thought that due to the kitchen being so sophisticated that then gave him the impression of Ethan not being working class, showing again that we didn't show our representations well enough. This is probably due to lack of planning and not enough thought going into the display of the working class life. My member thought that the performance of the actor was good and portrayed the working class well however there again is not enough detail with mise-en-scene. So if we were to do it again we would have to pay more attention to setting, props and costumes.

Audience feedback

The audience gave some helpful feedback but did not really challenge the stereotypes that we put out for them, giving us the reflection on that our audience have just accepted them as dysfunctional and reckless and not attracting them by challenging them.

This could be because of the questions not being representation specific however I believe my questions would have at least gave them a chance to express their opinions.

Why??

This may be because that the audience are now so active that they don’t see just the working class being represented like this as my member said that he couldn't tell the difference. This could lead to us having to make our representations even clearer so that the audience can see them so that in hand will then allow them to challenge them.

My secondary audience member noticed the stereotype more maybe due to her getting personal identity from it and can relate to it, meaning that maybe we should of had our secondary as our primary.

Extra feedback

Both of the audience members found the plot of the film hard to follow as they had to watch it a couple of times to actually put some of the enigmas together. This would suggest that we made it too complex and this had put our secondary audience off, however the primary audience were keen to discover the enigma s and put them together meaning that they would be intrigued to watch it.

They both though that the locations especially the urban train location was used effectively , as it represented a working class and would associate someone in the working class to be using local transport instead of a car due to them having a lower income.

Extra feedback

My secondary audience member found the flashbacks rather confusing and couldn't put them together which could mean that again we made it too complex as this is shown again as the primary audience didn’t really understand the meaning behind it, so got a bit confused by this, however after I told him how this would be explained later on in the film he then became intrigued to watch it and find out what happens.

Was it the right audience?

I think it was the correct audience as even though they didn’t understand some parts, I think it was our fault for overestimating their intelligence as it would be confusing for most. So I would say that the use of a sophisticated audience is the best choice as any audience who is less sophisticated would stand no chance at challenging the stereotypes.

Audience feedback

However due to the audience feedback being very small we could have possibly done an online survey to include more people by using web 2.0. However last time we put an online survey up it was not answered so may be a waste of time.

Maybe our audience would have enjoyed the production if we made it simpler as we underestimated them as they don’t always want it to be intellectual for example the title as the majority wanted ‘alone’ instead of ‘Reflux’.

To conclude...

After seeing the audience feedback, I have come to the conclusion that our audiences could have been improved if we did more research. As we could have had a younger audience as they may have related to it more with the main protagonist being a youth. This could mean that instead our secondary audience should be E income class and 18-24 years old