Questionnaire interpretation – rough

edit Audience research.

Genre – murder mystery

Do you understand the narrative of the movie? Our audience was made up of 10 people We asked them as a first question if they

understood the narrative of the question in order to get the idea of how did they watch our movie.

All of them said that they understood what was going on on the screen and that they recognized that it is about a murder mystery movie which was good because it means that we managed to express our ideas for this movie properly.

Did you feel the tension?

Another question on our questionnaire was about the tension that we wanted to express through our movie. Since it’s a murder mystery movie, there has to be tension.

Half of our audience answer positively about the tension in our movie, the other half having different opinions about it. Two of them said that they didn’t feel any tension in our movie without giving us any ideas of how to make it better but the other three, gave us some ideas of how to bring the tension in our movie and improve it.

The overall conclusion from their ideas was to add music because this would bring the tension as well. They specified that we should add a song that would give the idea of suspense.

Do you think we chose the actors accordingly to the character they are portraying?

When we started to plan on how to do the movie, we thought about the criteria that every actor has to meet in order to fit in the character they had to be physically speaking.

We asked our audience if we did that right because we really wanted every character to be portrayed by the right person.

Our audience answered positively at this question saying that we chose the actors very well and according to every character. This means that the struggle of finding the right people wasn’t for nothing and as directors, we made the right choice.

Do you think that the mise-en-scene is used well?

The answers to this questions were all positive which means that we made the right choices when it comes to costumes, make-up and how we set the scenes.

Do you think we should change the fonts that we used for the credits?

We were concerned about the fonts as well because we wanted everything to be linked with our genre and this includes the fonts too.

What we found out from the questionnaires is that the fonts were chosen properly but only for the cast’s names so we are going to make sure that we will chose them carefully for the credits as well as for the cast and make them similar.

Should we add some music? (Rhythm – fast or slow)

All of our audience was of the opinion that we should add some music and more than half of them specified that it should have a fast rhythm especially when there’s the crime scene going on. This should add up more suspense to our movie and make it look more as a murder mystery movie.

We decided that we are going to listen to the audience and add a fast rhythm when is the crime scene and add a slow pace at the beginning in order to get the audience’s ate

Do you think that we used our shot transition well? If not, what should we

change?

At this question we got 7 positive answers saying that we used the transitions well and the other 3 answers involved new ways of improvements.

The audience said that we should work more on the flashback as it’s expressing a trailer feeling rather than a memory and also that the fades in the crime scene are too jumpy.

As a conclusion, we are going to edit the movie again and follow the audience’s point of view

Do you hear the dialogue loud enough?

10 out of 10 were positive answers which means that the dialogue is heard properly and we don’t have to worry about that anymore.

Does what you hear, match with what you see? (the dialogue

between the characters)

We asked this question to see if the dialogue is synchronized and by this, I mean that the sound should match with the image when the characters are speaking.

The answers were positive which is good because it means that the characters understood the dialogue and who is speaking in the scene/shot.

Is the lighting used properly?

At this question the answers were different. Again we got some ideas of improvements from the audience. 7 people answered saying that yes, we used the lighting properly and the other 3 gave us some new ideas of how to make it better.

The overall conclusion of the ideas was that we should make the flashback lighter and also, be careful with the contrast because it’s too much.

How do you think we can improve for our final

piece? In the final question from our questionnaire

we asked for specific improvements that we could use in order to make the movie better and the answers were divided in half.

Half of our audience – 5 people, said that we should definitely add some music and the other half said that we should work on the cuts because they are changing too fast.