Feedback From Other Groups

Comments on how we could have improved our opening and which elements did not work very effectively:

Group 1 said:

"The young girl’s clothes in the past could have been brighter to highlight how her life went from happy to sad. However, the main title of the film ‘Changing Places’ could have stood out better to emphasise its importance."

-In our evaluation presentation we illustrated that as a group we also thought the characters clothing could have been used more effectively. We recognized that if we were to do this again, we would consider dressing the younger girl in much brighter clothing.

-We did not necessarily want our titles to stand out due to the smoothness of the opening. However, we accept that the title could have been made much clearer to the audience

Group 2 said:
"clothing could have suited characters a bit more
could have used a few more close ups to represent the emotions"

-As a group, we did recognize that we could have used clothing a bit more effectively to demonstrate the different characters.
-However, we decided to limit the use of close ups as the opening of our film was heavily based on the change of setting. Therefore, long-shots and mid-sets were necessary to create a sense of place and introduce the setting to the audience.

Group 3 said:

"could be made more clear of where she is at the end of the opening"

We accept that the audience were left unaware of the location of the main female character at the end of the opening, and that this could be seen as a negative. However, as a group, we felt it would be more effective to create an enigma about the characters whereabouts

Group 4 said:
"The genre of the film was said to be a romantic-comedy however we
felt that neither of these elements had been shown in the opening."

We agreed with this criticism .However, when producing our film opening we thought that it was essential to show that specific section of the characters life as it introduced the character and her story . Also, from our research we recognized that it would probably be best to to open the film with this story, as this was a convention found in other films from the same genre. We didn't necessarily want our opening to look like a trailer, which we thought would happen if we would have included sections from the characters life in the present.

Group 5 said:

"it doesn’t seem obvious that the title is called Changing Places.From the beginning, it doesn’t seem like a Teen Romance"

-These criticisms are fairly similiar to those raised by other groups. We acknowledge that we could have incorporated a bolder title and introduced aspects of a teen romance genre. However, we felt that the decisions we made were necessary in order to relate to other teen romance openings.