Most criticism given was about the genre not being evident enough. A lot of people thought our film opening was either a drama, thriller or crime which evidently isn't clear that it is in fact a documentary. Having three different views of our genre wouldn't give us potential of high marks so we researched more documentary's such as The Imposter and were given lots of ideas from that which would hopefully make our genre more evident.
Although our feedback about the genre wasn't great we had some good feedback given about our editing. We were given comments such as 'good mix of shots. music worked well' and 'music is good at adding tension and an atmosphere'. The majority of the comments were 'good editing' but we knew there were some improvements that we still needed to make as we still did get some criticism such as 'need to try a few new effects' so I took this criticism on board and added effects dissolving different scenes in and out and changed the volume of the music at different scenes.
It was vital that we considered what people believed we needed to change. When asked what we needed to change people said 'make transition between scenes clearer' so we changed the close up of the door handle and made it flow better. We noticed that a lot of people criticized our interview so we made this shorter and only used the interesting parts of the interview. I also noticed how the interview didn't flow with the actual film and was a bit random so I made it link better so it made more sense.
When given our mark out of 60 we were given a big range and were rated between 20-45. Although some marks were good we also realised some weren't as good so we knew we had to improve on this.
