P12 - Effective ideas and improvements

We've spoken to members of our audience to find out what seems good about our film and discuss ways we can improve it. 

From discussion we've found a lot of improvements which we can make and ideas which we can incorporate into our film. 



These are what we found were effective:

• The mid-shot of the villain's eyes accompanied with music (or a sting).
• The contrast of colours of the surrounding in the main character's nightmare and in reality. (For example, in reality the colour of the surrounding is normal but in the nightmare it will be cool toned - almost greyscale).
• The scene where the main character opens the door of her house after she wakes up from her nightmare and sees that there is nothing outside - it's just completely white, blank and empty with no one and nothing.

And these are what were mentioned to improve our film:

• The villain should look realistic - This is so it is believable to the audience as they are watching the film. So the overall aesthetic of the villain should impact our viewers and create fear rather than make them lose interest.
• The main character should be younger - We've set the age of our main character (Hannah) of 16. It was pointed out to us that it would perhaps be more interesting if Hannah was 12 or 13 years old as at it is a vulnerable age.
• Include something symbolic - One idea we think is really good is to add something in the film that is seen in reality and in the nightmare to show that Hannah's nightmare is real as nothing has changed.
• After waking up from nightmare, Hannah should act normal - Instead of having our character realising just shortly after she's dead we've decided that after she wakes up, Hannah goes to get a drink of water, just to show a bit of normality before finding out she's dead.
• Move the grave scene after Hannah wakes up - One person mentioned that the scene where Hannah's mother is at her grave should be shown after Hannah wakes up so the audience knows that she's dead in reality. We've decided to agree to this and push that particular scene forward as it would make sense in the sequence.
• Include the demon at the end of the film - Before we planned on having the demon shown only in Hannah's nightmare. However, we're now going to include our villain in the very last shot of the film. We want to make it apparent to the audience that Hannah is still living her nightmare even after she is seen waking up, so we think this a good idea to show that. 

This has been really useful as we've now got a much clearer idea on what our audience would like to see and how to make our film stand out so it can really impact the viewers.