Final Sound adjustments and gaining feedback

Today when watching our final film back, we discovered some slight tweaks with the structure of the sound that could be made in order to build upon the connection with the audience from the character's perspective, which is something we have aimed to achieve throughout this project. Oliver and I stayed in the edit suite for a while to try and work on these, before showing the rest of the group the updated edit and gaining any feedback.
 The group are pleased with these changes, and we have discovered that although they are only very minor changes, they do make a difference to the atmospheric feel to the film.  One of the most effective slight changes that we made was the choice to include a few seconds of complete silence as the character's hand moves towards the door before it freezes. Another one of these is when halfway during the panic attack sequence we chose to take out the ringing, almost white noise like sound, and just keep in the sound of the character crying and hold this for a few seconds, before returning to the ringing noise.

Before putting the finished film onto DVD, we asked some of the other course members in the edit suite to have a watch through to see  how our film was interpreted and if the main ideas that we wanted to get across were communicated. We got some interesting feedback from this - it seems that people understand the agoraphobia narrative, which is positive, and that the theme 'journey' that is outlined on the brief can be understood in a number of ways, such as a journey of progression, an interruption or change to an everyday journey and an emotional journey exploring a fear in depth, which is what we were aiming to achieve. We also found that people were looking into features of the background production design to search for clues about the character and their history, which is another aspect to the film that we spent a lot of time developing and wanted the viewer to work the character out for themselves, leaving them to discover the narrative and back story to our film without us directing them to think in a particular way through the use of dialogue or music.