Feedback is one of those tools that is very useful, but
we have to keep an open mind. I remember in our TMA 185 class
we discussed the importance of listening to the audience and not trying
to interrupt or explain what they didn't understand in the story the
first time they heard it. We talked in class how it's important to accept
the feedback received and try and do better to adjust the story in a manner
that fills in the holes that the audience addressed.
Feedback is
something that can be taken offensively and personally. I
remember in my class with Brad one student gave me some feedback about a story
I had written out in the form of a screenplay which I took great pride in and
thought I had did a good job. However, this one student made a comment
that I took offensively due to the fact that the comment sounded very naive.
Yet, I accept the comment with respect; but to be honest in my head I
just disregarded it.
Now there have
been some feedback given in my classes that at first I did question, but after
pondering I can to the realization that I needed to fix the story so that there
was not any confusion or misunderstanding.
In our TMA 112 class I found it to be very useful the
feedback that our group received on the subject matter of our documentary
idea. We had a general idea as far as
what we wanted our film to be based on and direction we wanted it to go in
order to reveal something unique. Yet,
the class gave us some great feedback as far as some question ideas, and
subject matter that would be good to address in the documentary. With feedback a filmmaker, story teller, or
writer can know how they can better portray their imagination, for it is the
audience that they want to appease and if they don’t like it then the artist
has failed the audience.
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