The document discusses audience feedback received for a documentary film. A survey was created to gather feedback, which revealed that the non-diegetic sound was too loud over interviews. This issue was addressed by increasing the volume of interview footage and decreasing background sound. The documentary was also screened at a film festival, where more surveys were completed and the film won an award for best documentary. Overall, gathering audience feedback through surveys and screenings helped improve the film and confirm its positive reception.

1. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM YOUR AUDIENCE FEEDBACK?
Audience feedback is a crucial stage of the film making process.
This is because it enables you to allow others opinion and what
have been created and how it could be improved. My initial task,
to gain audience feedback, was to create a survey. I Created a
simple survey for potential audience members to complete after
watching my documentary. This was a task that I found very useful
because it allowed me to discover issues that I did not realise
myself, this is why I believe that it is always beneficial to have a
second opinion on my work. One of the faults that was made
evident, was the non-diegetic sound over the interviews was
dominating because of the volume. As an outcome I increased the
volume of the sound on the footage and decreased the volume on
the non diegetic sound.

2. Documentary Film Festival.
Whilst my documentary was in working progress, a documentary film
festival was organised. This enabled me to showcase my documentary
again, but to a much wider audience. On the day of the film festival I
gave a brief talk about the documentary, as well as asking for critical
feedback, as this would have been that last opportunity I had to reach
such a large group before the final completion of the editing process of
my documentary. The film festival was a huge success as we had
members from all over the academy attend to watch and critique my
documentary. This was an opportunity for more surveys to be
completed.
In addition to this, there were 2 awards available at the film festival; the
winner and the special mention. The specification of ‘The Winner’ was
the documentary that was technically most proficient and the all round
best example of documentary film making. The ‘special mention’ was
for the documentary that the audience enjoyed the most. My
documentary, ‘Breakthrough Mentoring’, was the winner of the
documentary; which I was really pleased about. This portrays that the
reaction to my documentary was a good one.

3. Final Summary
Finally, I believe that the completion of my documentary and ancillary
tasks was a huge success. I am significantly happy and proud of what
have been produced. Especially the documentary. This is because the
Breakthrough Mentoring project have made a huge impact on my own
personal life and I had the opportunity to show other people how good
the service is. Whilst planning to film this, I knew that some parts would
be challenging because other young people would need to talk about
their own lives.
It would have been great if I would have had the opportunity to create
a full feature documentary and not just a five minute section. If this
would have been the case I would have had the opportunity to include
more contextual and background information about the service and
how the referral process works, as well as more stories from young
people. However, I believe that what I have produced sets the story
about the service really well.