What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Evaluation 3

For my focus group I got a group together of about 30 16 – 18 year olds (my target

audience) to see how they reacted to my trailer an movie poster. I gave out a question

sheet for them to fill in and this is the result's from their answers.

Do you understand the plot of the story?

The focus group helped me to understand that the storyline

for my movie trailer was a little too confusing for the

audience to understand and for some of the people who understood the main idea of

the storyline but at times they felt it was more became a little

bit unclear.

I could have improved this by having a better clearer

voiceover and possible some text on screen to help direct

the storyline more.

YesNoA little

What did you like most about the trailer?

I listed down all the things that my audience said worked best in my trailer and I was happy

to see wide verity of things that they liked. Out of my focused audience each person seemed to like a different aspect of the trailer which shows a persons

personal opinion.

I am very happy that Make-Up came up because it is

something small but shows that people pay attention to it

still.

Close ups The river scene The subject of bullying Fights Voiceover The music Make up Effects Characters Costumes Tone (Mysterious)

What do you think could be improved?

I looked through my audience feedback and found that a few appeared frequently through the questionnaire.

Fight scenes – People thought that they could have been more realistic

Storyline – Need to be clearer through the whole trailer Voiceover – Needed to be louder and clearer but it could also have

been better worded. Editing – The editing was too chopping at times and could have

flowed much better.

I know that I should have re-shot my voiceover so that it was louder and came across clearer but also to re-write it so that it helped to show the storyline more and let it come across better to the audience.

Dose the trailer give away too much of the movie?

NoYesA little but not much

Its always good that the trailer doesn't show too

much of the storyline but I think that the main reason

that people felt that it didn't was because the

storyline was more confusing and most of the

audience didn't get the main plot of my trailer.

Dose the music work with the trailer?

No one in my focus group thought the music didn't fit my trailer which i am happy

about but I think to make my trailer much stronger I could have timed some of the lines of the songs with certain scenes of my trailer

or even added different songs with different moods to other parts of the trailer to help get the audience into the right mood for each cut in the trailer.

YesNoSome-timesAt times

Could you connect with the characters? Why?

Two main comment came from this section of my questionnaire

No because the storyline was also unclear so that characters couldn't come across well enough.

Yes because both of the main characters showed a emotional development with them through different ways. Juliet with her sitting next to her mothers grave and Connor through the idea of him being bullied.

However some people did find it hard to connect with the characters because they were vampires and werewolf's which works well in some way because it helps to keep a Mysterious tone to the whole trailer. But it is also no good if the audience finds no middle group with a character so they will not like to see a film with them in it.

What genre do you think the movie is?

Genre is very important to come across in a movie trailer

because it is a key aspect so that can get a audience to

watch your trailer. More people will watch a trailer that is a

genre of movie that they like and enjoy watching.

I like that the supernatural element came though most of all but I also understand why Horror was so high and that

because the difference between Horror and Thriller is

very slim so its normal for people to get confused by

them.

What did you think of the movie poster?

Overall I got good comments about my movie poster my

focus audience thought that it worked well with the genre of movie that I was trying to get across. But

also that the colours of the red and black which

showed in both the trailer and poster, were a big part of the theme and worked well and helped to get the

audiences attention.

What would you rate the trailer?

8 7 6 5

I got between 5 – 8 when my audience rated my movie. I

can see why however because I know that my

storyline could have been better show so that more

people understood it.

Even though I know I had a few points that needed

improvement I am happy with a rating of 5 -8 because it shows that the good points of my trailer outweighed the

negatives.