Evaluation question 3: What have you learned from audience feedback?

Audience feedback

This is an award we recieved from channel 4 for the most original sound effects.

What I have learnt from audience feedback: 

• Our trailer could be improved by using a wider variety of shot types, for example, shot reverse shot during conversation. 
• Sound was used very well in our trailer.
• Our trailer could be improved by making it clearer what the trailer is actually about, however, I also have learnt that we used titles well to tell the story.
• We could improve our shot transitions during the editing process.
• Our characters are developed well, therefore appealing more to a target audience.

All in all, I have learnt that our trailer could be improved in many ways, but we had good editing, it was shot well and sound was used very well.

Some feedback from facebook 

Whilst making our trailer, we were getting feedback from friends to see if the plot to our trailer actually made sense or if anything needed to be done to improve it. At first our audience told us that it looked good but the plot wasn't clear, from this we learnt that we had to go back and develop the plot more through a few extra shots and more titling. After we did this we showed it to them again to see if the plot had been developed, they told us that the titles worked really well to tell the story and were used well. This audience feedback taught me how it's possible to tell a story not only through shots, but also through titling. Furthermore, we were told that the music was used very well to create an atmosphere and to increase the tempo of the trailer.

After getting audience from the people from channel 4 and from  younger age group, such as mine, I have learnt that our trailer is more suitable for the younger age group. This can be taken as good and bad, our main target audience was for 15-25 year olds, so our trailer did appeal to our target audience, but it would've been nice to have had a wider variety.

Some people weren't able to tell what some of our characters roles were, for example the girl who gets killed, people weren't able to understand why she was in the trailer. After watching it a few times, i've realised that it actually isn't very clear on who she is. I learnt that every character who is shown in a trailer has to be introduced in one way or another and she wasn't, next time I would be more clear on who the character is and what her actual role is.