Post Production Analysis
and Evaluation
Rough Cut, Peer to Peer verbal
feedback
After a
rough edit of ‘Limbo’, I asked two of my peers for feedback, to critically
express their feelings and opinions. They watched the introduction of Limbo
once and listened to a piano composition composed by Kevin Macleod. They went
on to answer a series of questions.
Bhavna and Ben’s feedback was
positively inspiring, but I would have liked some critically negative concerns,
in which I could have addressed. However, Bhavna’s response to explain how
effective the close up shots were in the first scene; identified what I had
initially set out to achieve. I had planned to keep an air of “mystery”,
and “curiosity” concealed within the two opening shots. She then
mentioned that these shots effectively “explore the character”, which was
my primary aim.
By peers, liked the effectiveness of
the music and would be interested to view Limbo as a full product. Bhavna
explained that she was “curious of what happens next in the story” and
the introduction “pulls the audience’s attention”.
Rough
Editorial Cut – Peer to Peer Research
The initial
objective to this research was to establish whether I had included enough hints
of how gender was represented in Limbo’s extract. The results indicated that my
eight peers identified micro elements of makeup that would have initially been
stereotypically associated as a female possession; highlighted the
‘Transgender’ theme. Liam, also indicated that gender could be established
through my protagonists “Anxious, secretive motions and facial
expressions”.
This exercise proved interesting
though, that not one person identified my protagonists interest in female shop
or the beauty tip page of the magazine. This leads me to believe, the opening
shots to ‘Limbo’ instantly grabbed their immediate attention.
Post Production Questionnaire
In order to
obtain critical feedback I conducted a focus group session, that was selective
of age and gender. I showed them two previews of ‘Limbo’ and played them the
acoustic guitar soundtrack that was primarily composed for this extract.
The results indicated several
interesting factors
Question one – Effectiveness of Titles
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Five out of the six participants decided
they were effective, but one male responded how they did not relate to the
genre, I was representing. This was a convention I was trying to challenge.
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Question two - Theme
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All participants commented that the
theme was instant and easily recognised within the extract.
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Question three – More Hints to the
Theme.
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Two participants confirmed that I did
not need to place any more in the introduction.
Two participants suggested that Mark
should have put on a dress with one going further to suggest that he could
have placed a wig on.
One suggestion was that a dress should
have been laid out on the bed.
Another response was to have the
protagonist put his makeup on using a hand mirror.
I felt that putting the dress on was
not necessary, for the theme to be recognised, but the hand held mirror
suggestion was a valuable point, and one I would have liked to implement, but
at this stage of my project I felt that it would not benefit a reshot.
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Question Four – Instrumental musice
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Five out of the six participants
preferred the piano instrumental piece, as it successfully evoked empathy and
emotion. However, one respondent clarified that they preferred the guitar
instrumental piece. However, they would have liked the tempo to be a lot more
subtle.
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Question Five - Title
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Five out of the six liked the title I
had chosen and even had their own ideas –
Me referring to identity
The In Betweener – Extract explored
two sides of Mark’s identity.
It is fair to say that the title
‘Limbo’ reflects the mood and representation of the introduction and
therefore I feel it is appropriate.
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Question Six – View Full Film
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All the participants indicated that if
‘Limbo’ was made into a film, they would be very interested in viewing it.
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