It was really nice to get some critical feedback as well as the rewarding good feedback. The group commented on the use of the music played by the musicians as a good underlay and also mentioned the recording quality was good. They liked the sound bridging over the piece and said this helped to create a flowing piece. We got good feedback on the use of the public interviews, they were used to effect and helped bring our piece together as well as some comments on nice transitions, saying the documentary was well paced throughout.
Esther and Debbie thought that the piece was charming and engaging, commenting on the structure being good with well thought out choices of which quotes we included. There were some mentions of inconsistent dialogue levels, which on hindsight were more obvious than we'd anticipated and the intro and outro were appreciated.
One criticism that I would definitely take with me into my next documentary project is to ask the contributors to introduce themselves and what they do as this could have benefitted our piece but I think that without them, the piece doesn't suffer immensely.
The main issues were the grain and some of the framing of the piece but this couldn't be helped in the editing stage so we will just have to accept that criticism and take it into consideration during the next production.
I'm very pleased with the feedback, I think the positive feedback reflects our input into the project and the criticisms are things that we were expecting and can learn from in the future.
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