Focus Group for Test Footage

Our focus group described our props as:

"Very atmospheric" and "Reminds me of a haunted house"

This shows that the props we decided to include were successful and shows
 that they had identified genre conventions within our test footage.

They said that the candles were:

"Good lighting"

"Dangerous"

Some may say that the description "dangerous" is a negative comment. However, 
we believe that it is positive and relates to our genre. Our film includes danger,
therefore the fact that the candles were described as dangerous proves that our 
props are successful in the fact that they promote thriller conventions.

Garvey mentioned the darkness, quoting:

"There's a beauty of having darkness with very little light" 

Our choice of using low key lighting was effective in our shots and has aesthetic
 qualities about it which is positive because it means the audience will remain 
engaged and intrigued throughout the entire duration of our opening.

We also asked some questions about angles:

Over The Shoulder. 

"Gives all the info action without being boring"

"To be fair, that is a good camera angle, I'm not going to lie"

Over shoulder shots feature multiple times in our opening, making it 
important that we received positive feedback on it.

Low Angle

"Does nothing for me"

Negative feedback is also very helpful in the sense that we can  keep this
 in mind whilst filming so that the majority of our audience are pleased.

Birds eye view

"Someone looking down on you"

"Oppressive view"

These comments suggest that our birds eye view shot makes the 
audience sense dominance and control and makes them feel slightly 
uncomfortable.

 We can use this to our advantage and feature a birds eye view in some 
of our more tense scenes.