The link was posted on Facebook, this gave us a wide range of contacts to review our film particularly our target audience of 16 - 24 year olds. Also we interviewed class members to gain more direct feedback.
"this is really good! i though the video had a clear storyline, it followed on and made sense. I especially liked the ending of the boy waving the piece of paper and the intro was clever."
"I thought the first shots worked very well, sets the doc up properly. I think you've created and portrayed the character of Lola brilliantly. The slow motion works well too, like where she's smoking, it looks like she's loving it, but you're having fun at her expense. Works in that sarcastic c4 kinda way.The one criticism I would have is when you write "hidden camera footage" it should either just be overdubbed, or maybe footnoted? Make it a little more subtle. Also, it's good you've got the "fans" involved! Helps to make it feel realistic!"
"A fast paced, funny documentary, i liked the use of hidden camera footage and thought it was very well filmed all together."
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Even though we allowed people to post comments on YouTube this was not enough. With limited access to YouTube accounts we set about interviewing people in class directly along with our friends on Facebook via the links we sent. In class we were able to receive direct feedback and were able to set about on any problem brought up quickly. However time was as an obvious restraint to how much we could actually change about the film. One student noted upon how the exterior of Lola's house wasn't seen during the film and it would work well as an establishing shot if we could find a building to use as the outside of Lola's house.
We were able to find a block of flats not far from college and able to generate a quick establishing shot outside to solve the problem. This was not time consuming and was one of the few problems brought up through the audience feedback that we thought personally would affect the quality of our film.
