Evaluation: Question 3

What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

In this question I am going to evaluate my audience feedback and what I learnt from it.


I started to show members of my target audience in my media studies class, aged 17-18 the beggining of my film to see what features they liked and disliked about the film and what I could improve.
From this I gathered information on details that I wouldn't have noticed in my film such a slight shake of the camera blurring the shot at the begin of the pan of the wooded area.
This was useful as it gave me information about the target audience wanted therefore I knew best how to connect with the them in the short movie. It also helped my to improve the film and alter to how the audience wanted it to be.
From watching the students watch the film I could tell which bits people enjoyed or not.

I also showed a few older people that fit into my target audience range the film to get a different look at it. They mostly seemed to say the same as the younger people.



After my target audience had watched my film they told me what they enjoyed and did not enjoy and where I could improve. I wrote this down so I could use it as advice for the rest of my film and what to change, some of the things they said were;

- It had lots of good shots although some of them became  a bit repetitive
- At the beginning the protagonist walks for too long which bores the audience and needs something else going on to keep them interested.

- The knife made a few people laugh rather than scaring them so they suggested using a bigger one.




I used audience feedback whilst creating my ancillary tasks as well.

My original film poster was shown to the same group of people who I showed my film too so I could find out their views on what they liked and diskliked, and what could be improved.

This is my original poster before changing it after feedback. I thought that having the two main characters names at the top was a good idea as it was a common convention of film posters though, after showing the audience I realised that it was a bad idea as the actors weren't famous and recognisable.

They recommended adding a slogan instead.