My audience feedback has shown me that there are ways of reading my film that I hadn't thought about when coming up with the idea. For example, when showing my film to my target audience several people asked me if the person the main character was texting was going to be an old man pretending to be a teenage girl. It was the amount of people commenting this that prompted me to put the silhouette of the friend on-top of the footage of the main character texting on the bench.
This made me think more about the different readings of my film.
The preferred reading is that this girl who gets bullied has one best friend who she's never met but it turns out is one of the bullies so she stops talking to her and then they make up and have a happy ending.
One oppositional reading of my film could be that there's not enough dialogue in it. Obviously I have made the conscious decision to omit this and so haven't 'failed' in this way but if you prefer films with a lot of dialogue in then you would be within your rights to read my film in this way.
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