Audience Feedback Half Way through Editing

As a way to ensure that our film opening was easy to comprehend and what we had put together was good, we decided to ask a few people what they thought was good and in their opinion, what we could improve on. Here is the feedback which we received and how we aimed to tackle any of the problems that would be highlighted to us.
It was said that there was a lack of variety of shots, for example, our shots were consisting of close up and extreme close up shots as well as, a tilt shot. Immediately we thought of being able to incorporate a point of view shot as Daisy is in the cellar looking at the man as he is coming down the steps. In addition, there was another point of view shot added, in the park, but it was the kidnappers view. We also added a pan shot, this is demonstrated when a random girl is crossing the road at the beginning. The news report manages to incorporate a medium distanced shot, furthermore.
Secondly, it was mentioned that the frames were held for a longer duration than needed and this was made more obvious when there was no movement occurring in the scene, this also made our opening seem very bare in content. When we went back to editing, one of the first tasks we did was to reduce the lengthy shots to a more appropriate duration. This can be seen 0:49 seconds into our film when one frame is held for 2 seconds, as opposed to five/six seconds.
It was noted that it was very effective when the music grew louder when the title came onto the screen gradually, the only criticism on that point was we could make the title bigger, to have more of an impact.
In contribution to all of the other points mentioned, there was one more, and that was to get Daisy's character to react more to the entrance of her kidnapper, and film some interaction between the two of them. For example, to get the man to reach his hand out to touch her face and then to get Daisy to  pull back and try to compromise with him to let her go. We took this on board, that there needed to be speech somewhere to fill the silence, this is when we filmed the news report and taped the voice of the man shouting "Look at me!".
In conclusion, it was extremely helpful to receive some input from an outsider as it allowed us to see if they understood everything and to see if they picked up on something my group and I would have missed. Also, when we got good feedback, saying that the slow motion used was very effective as it helped to create a suspense/tension to the opening, it made my group feel positive and look for other ways which would enable us to recreate those feelings.