Feedback from Focus Group

Feedback

We put forward our ideas for our group for our short film production and soon realised from this that some changes needed to be made to make our film a success. This focus group was very helpful for our group because, by having newer minds/people looking over our work they were able to see the errors that we as a group failed to realise. The errors that were noted were:

Instead of having our main character as a nerd, we would have the main character as the most popular boy in school that has the beautiful girlfriend but bullies nerds and other unfortunate people. By having this feature, it then gives the reason for why the ghost possessed him. The ghost represents Karma and Karma is out to Nigel because he bullies the unfortunate (the main character)

Another change we would have to change is our montage in the beginning. Instead of having short clips of him being bullied and showing his rubbish life, it would be the opposite. So it would then show his life being great for him and him bullying others.

We also had an ethical issue that drew the attention of the focus group and everyone agreed that it should be taken out to avoid certain issues. What we planned was that because Nigel’s life would be so bad but then he would become a Christian and he feels better with himself and his life starts to get better. This would be a bad thing because the ghost is trying to ruin his life so to do this he tries even harder to make his life horrible and begins to break him down mentally until Nigel has so little self-esteem the ghost possess him. Everyone said that this would raise red flags and cause problems so we had to take it out. That was when the idea of Nigel being popular and not a nerd came in.

With these changes we also had to change then tittle from “Jasper the unfriendly ghost” to “My name is Karma, PUNK!”

So overall this focus group was very successful for our group and we are now focusing on these new things and how we can fit them into our short film.