At our final viewing we circulated the sixth form building and found several students and staff to come along to the viewing to give us feedback on our final screening of our documentary extract "What About the Families?" The blue highlights are our personal comments.
Questions asked:
Q:what did you like best about this film? Least?
Best:
the people being interviewed
the angles
the begining interview
the phone call
use of statistics
different viewpoints by different family members
shot variation
nice opening
camera shots/ angles
emotional storyline
fluid interviews
great close up
good voiceover
good fades
greatest shot of prisoner
information given
cut aways good
nice transitions
Least:
shaking ( but that was because it became unrendered when tranfering it to be shown)
less voiceover maybe
felt there was unnessessary cutaway( Pat interview but explain why we had to put that cut away in)
shakey fan shot
Q: who do you think is the target audience of this film?(age, gender, interest, area, nationality, etc.)
youth
london
mostly males(16-25)
gang culture
south london
Black
young people from cities
families who have experienced people going to jail
male teens
people in the same situations
teens & adults 15+
Teens/ all young people
those likely to offend
every nationality
Q:on which channel do you think you would find this documentary? why?
C4
Channel 4
BBC 2
BBC
interviews meaningful shows a great & strong message
ITV/ Channel 4- young people tend to watch
Channel 5
not sure, could see it being shown in schools
( nearly everyone said it should be shown on Channel4!!!)
