Audience Response To Film - Hide & Seek

After completing our film we watched our film and others groups during a lesson with our tutor, assessing each others films and commenting on the strengths, and weaknesses of each film. Below is an audience response on the strengths and weaknesses that pupils in our class commented on about our film (Hide and Seek).

Strengths: 

• Good use of sound and sound effects; screeching sounds whilst words swiped in.
• Good use of special effects e.g. the slow motion and swiping of words effect.
• Good variety and wide range of shots used; establishing shots, close ups, panning shot etc. 
• Good use of camera angles;  high angle and low angle shots.
• Good build up of tension through sound and editing
• Good use of enigma codes.  

Weaknesses and improvements: 

• Few camera shakes whilst filming. 
• A minor jump between transitions affecting the flow in camera shots.
• One pupil said the zoom we used was a little to fast, although we felt we needed a fast zoom in order to be safe in not exceeding the 2 minute film time limit. 
• Another pupil suggested when the camera cuts from Louise counting one... two... three... to where the people were hiding, we could have carried on the counting adding a voice over at these cuts, instead of going back to Louise counting five... six... seven... and missing out the number four. 
• Also we could have filmed the outside establishing shot of the house during dusk, instead of filming at daytime, as someone mentioned this would add to the codes and conventions of a Thriller, also adding to the suspense. 

If we were to reproduce this film we would take these improvements into consideration and use these points to improve our film.