2 Minute Character Study - Screening and Feedback

We screened our film on Thursday to the whole group and the tutors to get formative feedback as well as a chance to see everyone else's film and see the quality that everyone was producing at. Everyone else's films were very good, all with an element of comedy in them which was interesting as well as entertaining to watch as not many of our course have done comedies before so it was a nice change.
When we screen our film, I noticed there were some unpolished elements to it in terms of the edit as well as sound, but this was to be expected considering we only finished the film on the same day as the screening, a few hours before hand. The colour was also a bit of a disappointment, as it looked fine on Media Composer and on the mac when I exported it, however when we played it on the projector in the screening, it looked very red, especially on the male characters face which was annoying. Whether this was due to the projector or to the actual colour correction I applied on it is something to look into when re-editing it.
The feedback we got from the tutors was surprisingly mainly positive; they really enjoyed how we portrayed the emotion of grief across to the audience, as well as how this was constructed around the narrative and they also liked the experimental and ambitious style that the film was made in, both in terms of lighting, cinematography, narrative and the edit. This being said, they also agreed that it was unpolished in some areas, mainly being that the coherence of the film is shaky in some areas and the metaphors within the film are initially hard to understand at first. This is because of the 2 minute limit we had on the film not allowing us to explore and let the audience dwell on the imagery long enough, and instead having to use jump cuts to progress the narrative, instead of the longer shots we originally intended to use.
All in all, I am pleasantly surprised in the reception of our film by the rest of the group and our tutors, as I was very nervous and unsure on how the ambiguity of it would be interoperated and absorbed by them. I am pleased that the film has turned out the way it has, especially due to the time restraints we were given in the post-production side of the film and I look forward to applying what we have learnt in the final 5-10 minute piece.