Audience feedback

We were delighted when we were given positive feedback from a viewing we held, presenting our thriller on a large screen with an audience of 6th formers. The feeling of horror and the impact on the audience was incredible; Rosie Cammack was drawn in by the piece and was well and truely scared, "I can't watch that it's minging, what is he doing with his head?". In receiving a comment like that we had noticed that the masked characters had been instantaneously viewed as antagonists, which was intended. A student from year 13 Chris Hollington who took Media Studies and did the same project as last year was impressed by our work, "I am truly a big fan of this". I also gathered various students that did not take Media or Film and asked them to watch our piece. They enjoyed it and when I asked them the genre one person Jordan Sargent replied "Is it a horror?" and they said that they thoroughly enjoyed the piece.

In addition on the audience feedback above on the 30th April i proposed that we did our own premiere. We burnt 'Regent House' on to DVD, i then persisted as many people to view our thriller during free time. We had a projector, the lights were off, and around 25-30 people saw are thriller for the first time. This is as close as we could get to knowing how our thriller would go in an actual cinema. Whilst nervous of what the feedback would be it was resoundingly positive, a small laugh emerged when they realised a teacher was on screen (something that wouldn't be an issue when showing publicly) strangely everyone went silent, until a round of applause as it finished. A 10 minute video has been put unto the blog documenting the audience teaching and their feedback. From the feedback, we are extremely happy to see that it was positive, and from fresh eyes (having no idea of how any of the processes behind making the thriller) acknowledged a media product we knew so well.

Peter McLaughlin, Tim McNiven and Oliver Fitch