A2 Media Coursework Evaluation

1. What have you learned from
audience feedback
Question3

2. What I learned 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

3. The results of the Questionnaire
0 5 10 15 20 25
Thriller
Horror
Series1
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
yes
no
Series1
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.

4. 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
yes
no
Series1
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.
0 10 20 30 40
yes
no
Series1
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

5. 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
yes
no
Series1
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
yes
no
Series1
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.

6. 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.

7. This is draft cover of my trailer that I showed the
people who watched my trailer.
I asked these questions:
Is the writing clear
Do you think that this image represents my trailer
Is 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”

8. 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.

9. 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”

10. 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