What have you learnt from audience feedback

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What I learnt from audience feedback is that when you create something, you know all the sound that should be heard and everything that should be seen and take notice off. Most importantly you know and understand the storyline but with an audience looking at it with fresh eyes things are not always as obvious. Thirty seven people were screened my trailer a lot of which were my target audience so I got a lot of feedback. After they were shown the trailer they filled in a questionnaire.

Two examples of filled in questionnaires

The results of the Questionnaire

Thriller

Horror

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no

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Majority of the people circled Horror as the genre of my trailer, which tells me I conveyed horror well. Even though thriller is also at a high number this could be because horror and thriller to most people are seen as similar or the same.

Just under 30 said they would go see my film, which is a good result. Maybe the others wouldn’t go to see my film because its a horror and not everyone likes horrors.

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Over 30 people said they understood the storyline which a good result however I would have been even better if everyone said they understood the storyline.

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Out of all the questions asked this was the best result as no one answered no. Which gives me a great indication that the titling suited my trailer

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Majority thought that the pace of the editing suited my film. Which is positive feedback.

Again majority agreed that the sound was good but not everyone agreed. This could because from the comments I understood that dialogue wasn’t always clear.

What I got back from the audience was mostly good things and majority of the answers was yes but not all, and I took those No’s back with me to see if there were areas I could change. All the comments on my trailer were about the sound. They didn’t say anything about the music used but they said it that drowns out dialogue and that I need to make the music more dramatic for the demon.

I lowered all the diegetic sound and raised all the dialogue and added another sound track for only the clips that the demon appeared in to address the comments.

This is draft cover of my trailer that I showed the people who watched my trailer. I asked these questions:Is the writing clearDo you think that this image represents my trailerIs there anything that you think should be added

Some of the Replies: “Yes the writing is clear because the font is big enough size to make out what the writing says and the red and white sound out”“ Yeah the writing is clear for me but to someone else the font might not be especially in the smaller size font” “ Yes I do think the image represents the poster because the girl and the dark figure are both in the trailer”“Yeah because it shows the demon behind as if its following which is what it did in the trailer” “I’m not to sure what you should add, but you can put something in the top left corner so it doesn’t look at empty.”“ You should add more headlines because there is usually more headlines than what you have on your cover”

I added more coverlines to my magazine after the feedback I didn’t like the fact my cover looked “empty” and wanted to changed that.

I changed some of the font used on my front cover because I understand that at a smaller size the “you’re not alone” font could be hard to read for some people

I didn’t change all the fonts because I wanted to keep someone individuality to my cover. I wanted the title of my trailer to sound out more so that’s why I kept that font .

I kept the images all the same and the placement of the barcode because I didn’t get any negative comments about them and I didn’t feel I needed to change them.

This is the draft Film poster I showed. The questions I thought needed addressing are what follow:Does the image work? Is the font clear?Is there anything else that you feel should be added?

The replies: “ The image is great I love the close up and how you can slightly see the face of the create”“I really like the image because all you can see is the demon and it looks really creepy”“Other than the writing at the top maybe because its black you can’t really see it, you can everything clearly see ““Yes the font to me is clear”“Usually you see ratings from newspapers and they give the movie stars out of five, you could add that”“No you don’t need to add anything, everything a person needs to know is on here”

Majority of the comment on my film poster were really positive so there wasn’t much for me to change.

I changed the colour of the writing at the top, because some people couldn’t actually see the black writing and that was probably because of the dark background. So I changed it to white to keep with colour scheme I didn’t add the star

ratings because even though many posters include I didn’t think it was necessary for mine. I feel all the vital information is being presented