Focus Group (Music)

We were unsure whether to use dialogue throughout our short film or whether to keep it silent with a musical piece playing throughout. For both options we had lots of ideas on how it would work but instead of deciding ourselves we decided to ask our focus group what they found would be more effective.

We sent out the following message to our focus group:

Here are some of the comments we received back:

'I personally would prefer to have dialogue through the film, I think it would show more of the effects of the way people speak down to each other and the direct impact sexism has' (Claire Jarman)

'Having no dialogue would leave showing the emotion in the film to the music which I think would be easier to portray rather than speech' (Jamie Todd)

' I think that having just the music playing throughout would be much more effective than having speech as I think sometimes in short films its the script that can let the piece down, especially on such a strong idea as this' (Roy Gillham)

We had many more responses but these three were the ones that most swayed our decisions, we are going to choose to use music rather than speech because in the scenes in the school the film would be mostly silent anyway, and the scene with Theo and Gabby arguing will hopefully be more effective is you can just see the screaming with the music.