AUDIENCE FEEDBACK

After attending the listening party myself, I got to see the audience’s reaction and afterwards receive audience feedback on our drama. There were a few reoccurring points that were made about ‘The Unseen’ as follows:

Good vocals and good acting
Effective attention grabbing opening
Good use of sound effects
Overall storyline

However as I listened, I could note down a couple things that still needed to be altered and perhaps added at the late stage we were at. There were definitely a few things i agree with the audience on:

Sound levels needed to be decreased in some places
Vibrating phone wasn’t as recognisable and was too loud
Sound effects began very well but some were inappropriately placed or needed replacing with more specific sounds
The ending was confusing and made storyline unclear
The scene changes weren’t transitioned enough


So we ended up noting these proposed changes to our radio drama:
Decreasing levels of sound where necessary
Replacing vibrating phone with typical ring tone
Recording specific sound effects tt weren’t available to us I the fist place, such as walking on carpet, buttons being dialled and pressed on a telephone, strangulation (to replace multiple confusing gunshots), pushing and shoving of bodies, dead body falling to the ground, and general shuffling of coats to communicate the removing of clothes.
other new sound changes included recording a small section of narration to add authenticity to the overall media form fro example closing with he credits/who acted in each part etc.

We did re-edit and record the new dialogue which we learnt would help our finished piece. Generally speaking, audience feedback was extremely useful. It highlighted all of the obvious points I noticed as I listened, however also brought o attention those things I didn’t suspect as we created and edited first time. After implementing them, I was confident we had fixed all the issues that were highlighted.