For our audience feedback I sent out the questions below to a range of different people over the social networking sight facebook to see what they thought of our film (rough cut) and to see what they would improve. After I received this information we adapted our film as to what the audience suggested we should improve. Due to the access I gained over facebook I was able to send out a lot of questionnaires/surveys to a variety of different people. The answers below are some of the answer I received as I could not publish the entire data/ feedback I collected due to the vast number I sent out/ got back.
These are the questions we sent out to gain our audience feedback:
1. What do you think about the documentary?
2. Would you suggest any improvements?
3. Were there any aspects of the documentary that you didn't like and why?
4. Would you improve anything to the editing techniques?
5. Would you watch this if it appeared on Channel 4?
And these are just an example of the answers I received:
1. I think the documentary is really informative and gives a good insight into the fire service!!!
2. On one of the parts when the equipment was laid outside the voice over was really quiet and I couldn’t hear it so make sure that its able to be heard!
3. The first part of the documentary when you were filming the fire engine was a little bit too long but apart from that it was very good!
4. The only thing I would improve would be the voice over thing that I mentioned earlier
5. Yes I would watch it on channel 4 if I wanted to know about the fire service because it’s very informative and all the different aspects to it make it interesting to watch
1.The purpose of a documentary is to learn something new that you wouldn’t be able to find out quickly. I feel that this has been achieved in this project, by using a combination of interviews, voice over’s, location and close-ups. The speed of the documentary is well balanced with a good break in-between interviews, this aids viewers interest.
2.Personally, I would look to white balance the camera again before and after shot’s. As the colours seemed to vary, especially the prominent red. The sound needs equalising, so that volume doesn’t increase and decrease randomly. Some of the shots were slightly jerky in motion, especially the opening panning shot, and Finally not to include the questions being asked, this makes it more a Q+A session record the answer and not the question.
3.I would have liked to have heard more about the equipment being used, especially as the fireman seemed to be very open, and obviously very helpful with the project. If I wanted to be a fireman I would have liked to have seen a focus on either recruitment and what it takes to be a fireman.
4. Personally, I would involve sharper cuts, Longer opening and closing sequences, and Larger, Bolder titles. As well as ensuring that shot construction from one to the next had certain symmetry, using light, composition and character position. The angle of the camera seemed to be slightly cantered in places; I would just have it level.
5. Certainly, I would be interested to see the goings on behind the scene’s in a Fire Station, Classic example of a documentary, got me interested and keen in the subject matter.
1. I enjoyed the documentary it gave a good insight into the day to day life of a firefighter as often they can be accused of spending a lot of time sitting around, I also thought it was useful from a careers point of view as they set out the basic requirements to become a firefighter
2. When the first firefighter was being interviewed there was a lot of background noise that would be better if there wasn't any
3. No
4. I would maybe put some background music in at the beginning on the film
5. Yes
1. Was really interesting, kept me intrigued.
2. Improvements I'd say is just the volume and noise control but that’s it.
3. Nothing I didn’t like about it.
4. Again just volume and noise control, everything was fine.
5. Yes I would watch it, I like stuff like this
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