Post-Production Questionnaire Results - Question 10

The tenth question we asked was 'Do you think that the suburban shots of the boy walking down the street are a cliche? Do you think they should be taken out?'
This question links to the feedback our teacher gave us when we finished editing our first draft. Our teacher told us that the shots of the boy walking down the street to the park were 'familiar'. She liked the narrative idea because it was something that could happen to anyone, anywhere, but by placing a sequence of the main character walking down a street places him in one spot when we should try to keep it universal. So we asked this question to our audience to see if they gave us the same or different feedback, and then edit our video to respond to the comments.

8 out of 15 people said no, the shots shouldn't be taken out, here are some of their reasons; 'they add to the suspense', 'it was interesting and showed the emotions he felt', 'they were evocative', 'they were effective' and 'they worked well with the story line'.

However, we did receive some criticisms for the shots; 'it didn't look good quality', 'maybe cut some of it, make it shorter', 'they worked well, but I thought a tiny bit too much' and 'it maybe lasted for slightly too long'. This is definitely something we can work on, and now we know that we don't have to take out all of these shots, just shorten them or maybe even speed them up (as long as that works with the music).