To show that we appreciate audience feedback, we're show what we have learned from our audience feedback, we ended up reflecting on feedback that we actually already received throughout the development of our project and also we chose to use different methods to obtain new audience feedback about our finished trailer, poster and magazine.
Our Survey...
We have decided that we shall do another survey to assess how the audience that watched our trailer found the elements of our trailer, magazine and poster. Here below are the questions that we chose to ask the audience. We provided a variety of answers for each questions and asked each individual to fill it out.
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the results
Reaction survey
We asked 10 different people the same questions. | = 1 vote for the answer given
How did you find the trailer?
Did you find that the trailer made you want to watch the film?
Did you feel that the music made the trailer more tense and scary?
What images were more effective and eye catching?
Did you feel that our trailer got tenser as it developed?
Were the titles easy to follow?
If so was using red for the main words in each titles effective?
Was it clear what our genre is?
What age range did you believe our target audience should be?
We asked 10 different people the same questions. | = 1 vote for the answer given
How did you find the trailer?
- Exciting ||||
- Interesting ||
- Tense |
- boring |
- Scary ||
Did you find that the trailer made you want to watch the film?
- Yes |||||||
- No |||
Did you feel that the music made the trailer more tense and scary?
- Yes ||||||||
- No ||
What images were more effective and eye catching?
- Eagles |||
- Graves||
- Dark figure |||
- Knife |
- Hammer |
Did you feel that our trailer got tenser as it developed?
- Yes |||||||||||
- No
Were the titles easy to follow?
- Yes |||||||||
- No |
If so was using red for the main words in each titles effective?
- Yes, looked good |||
- Yes, Made sense |||||
- No, looked bad
- No, didn't make sense ||
Was it clear what our genre is?
- Yes |||||||
- No |||
What age range did you believe our target audience should be?
- 15+ ||||||||
- 18+ ||
- 21+
- Yes ||||||||||
- No
Reaction Videos...
We came to a decision to film some reactions to our trailer and then analysed the reactions to our work
We came to a decision to film some reactions to our trailer and then analysed the reactions to our work
Jon's Reaction
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Kai's Reaction
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What these clips showed us...
- In both reactions the viewers watched the trailer all the way to the end proving it was interesting and grasping to watch
- Kai was laughing through parts of the trailer, we believed it was because he was nervous to be filmed and used as an example
- Kai said it was good overall, he also said the old later was maybe to old to be included
- By the end of the trailer both viewers were impressed but both showed different emotions
- Feedback from Jon was that some of the sound was off and feedback from Kai was that he didn't like the scream from the old women at the end
- Both viewers successfully were able to read the titles throughout and can confirm they're appropriate, eye-catching and clear
More reactions to our work...
We chose to quote some of the stuff people said after watching our trailer, then after we then could work out what we could improve from their input.
'The trailer in a whole is good, what I found excellent was the way you got a birds-eye view shot.' - Kai phillips, a friend of the group.
We're happy that the trailer comes across good to other viewers outside of our group, it is also intriguing that one of our best shots in the trailer got picked out and mentioned. The are many different types of shots in which we used throughout our trailer, a compliment on our shot using is excellent feedback for us.
We could improve our trailer by using even more difficult shots and perhaps use more realistic acting, at times you could notice some bad acting and it does make the trailer look less effective. As a group we agreed to it would be interesting to see what kind of feedback we'd get if we used simple shots, we feel the responses from a trailer with simple shots compared to more difficult shots would be interesting as most trailers we studied use a wide variety of difficult shots.
We're happy that the trailer comes across good to other viewers outside of our group, it is also intriguing that one of our best shots in the trailer got picked out and mentioned. The are many different types of shots in which we used throughout our trailer, a compliment on our shot using is excellent feedback for us.
We could improve our trailer by using even more difficult shots and perhaps use more realistic acting, at times you could notice some bad acting and it does make the trailer look less effective. As a group we agreed to it would be interesting to see what kind of feedback we'd get if we used simple shots, we feel the responses from a trailer with simple shots compared to more difficult shots would be interesting as most trailers we studied use a wide variety of difficult shots.
'The trailer would be better if dialogue was included' - Media teacher
This is a piece of feedback in which we received from one of our teachers after we had finished our whole project. Originally, we chose not to use any dialogue and we stuck to our word as we thought using clips and background sounds would look effective and good. The same teacher helped us to decide that this was not particularly effective because we need to include some sort of dialogue, in the end we had some creepy dialogue over the top however it wasn't diegetic sound. Also, the person's voice that we used doesn't actually feature in the trailer, so we were concerned that it would cause confusion however it sounds effective
This is a piece of feedback in which we received from one of our teachers after we had finished our whole project. Originally, we chose not to use any dialogue and we stuck to our word as we thought using clips and background sounds would look effective and good. The same teacher helped us to decide that this was not particularly effective because we need to include some sort of dialogue, in the end we had some creepy dialogue over the top however it wasn't diegetic sound. Also, the person's voice that we used doesn't actually feature in the trailer, so we were concerned that it would cause confusion however it sounds effective
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Conclusion...
Overall, we felt that the audience feedback we received was really helpful to us when trying to make choices about our trailer, poster and magazine throughout our project because it showed us what kind of thing people are most interested in. We all agreed that making something in which the audience wants to see is the most important thing when you are hoping to profit from your project and create something that is going to be popular throughout it's time released.
Our feedback also showed us what we need to work harder on in future and what we could change which was helpful. Some of these things are that if we had more time for our project, we could have had a bigger advertising campaign and we could have made another trailer with more dialogue in to see which trailer people prefer more.
Overall, we felt that the audience feedback we received was really helpful to us when trying to make choices about our trailer, poster and magazine throughout our project because it showed us what kind of thing people are most interested in. We all agreed that making something in which the audience wants to see is the most important thing when you are hoping to profit from your project and create something that is going to be popular throughout it's time released.
Our feedback also showed us what we need to work harder on in future and what we could change which was helpful. Some of these things are that if we had more time for our project, we could have had a bigger advertising campaign and we could have made another trailer with more dialogue in to see which trailer people prefer more.