What have you learned from your audience feedback?

I held a screening of Skate or Die to my peers after which I interviewed 3 of the viewers who gave their honest opinions about my film and what it represented.

These interviews helped me to deem my film as a success in meeting it's genre and personifying a skateboard. When talking about camera shots one of the viewers refers to a shot as 'a close up of his face' referring to the skateboard which of course doesn't have a face, but this is a clear indication that the viewers have seen the skateboard as having human features because of camera shots and editing. Also, all of the interviewees refer to the skateboard as 'him' or 'he' at least once during the interviews, meaning that the viewers see the skateboard as a human, and a male. This means that I have successfully personified the skateboard and successfully created a male friendship between the man and his skateboard, and the viewers never saw the relationship between James and the skateboard as romantic or a friendship between a man and a woman. The audience also correctly identified the genre as a comedy or dark comedy which is what I set out for, the audience managed to identify key moments in the film, ones that added comedic value and ones that made you feel 'depressed' or 'really sad'.