1. The reactions most obvious to me form reading the comments, are that 10 out of the 12 comments mentioned the edits/effects/techniques. And all of these were positive. I found this extremely promising as the editing was aspect I was most worried about. All the comments mentioned that the editing was smooth or that the effects were good, which is something I’m very pleased about. The effects on the swing seemed to particularly appeal to those who watched it, as there are 6 mentions of this, again all positive. However one negative about the swings was that it “dragged on for maybe too long”. This was another thing I had concerns about. We shortened the swing clip many times before the final one, as we also felt it was too long. In fact I think we actually halved its time. As the rest of the film was so fast-paced, I feel that if we’d made the beginning shorter as well the binary contrast wouldn’t have been so obvious and it could have made the film opening even more confusing.

2. Finally there are the comments on our choice of music ( not sound). There are 6 comments specifically for the music, 5 are positive, 1 negative. The negative commenter felt that the music was “ a little cheesy (was it meant to be a bit funny?) but still good”. The rest felt that the music fitted in with our genre and that it was a “good use of music” and the sound climax was good also. My feelings are that the music was quite in-keeping with the genre. I can see why it could be perceived as “cheesy” as it was made very dramatic, almost to the point of being over-the-top. This was done purposefully as horror genres are usually loud and tense. I wanted to make a point of the music, as it emphasises what’s happening on the screen.

3. All of this feedback was very useful, and the reactions seemed positive. The biggest worry was that there was some aberrant reading. We really should only have got this from people outside of our target audience. So… I got reactions from a small group of people outside the target audience to see what these reactions were. It’s here that the opinions are still important, but it’s not as important for the audience to enjoy or accept what we are showing. These 2 video clips are from one man and one woman. Both outside of the age range of our target audience, and in the socio-economic grouping, they are A and B’s. They are basically not the target audience at all.