To the moderator,
This is my A2 Media blog for the film poster,magazine and trailer unit. I have created a trailer for my film idea 'The Grim Truth' and along side this i made a magazine front cover and poster. All of these can be found below starting from September were you will find my research and planning progress. ( http://bethhawleya2.blogspot.co.uk/2012_09_01_archive.html ) If you go to the march posts you will find my evaluation pages. (http://bethhawleya2.blogspot.co.uk/2013_03_01_archive.html ) Feel free to look through my research and planning pages, evaluation pages and completed media products.

Hope you enjoy,
Beth Hawley

Thursday, 21 March 2013

Evaluation Question 3- What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

Audience feedback for me and my partners trailer, our poster and magazine:

The audience feedback I have gathered has been really helpful in the development of my media products. I have been collecting audience feedback at the beginning from pitching a story line in the research and planning stages. Here are the cases where I have used audience feedback.
Audience Interviews:
At the start of the process I filmed audience videos to see their expectations from a film trailer which is where the base of my ideas came from. The interviewers told us what was expected from the horror genre such as the fast pace of a horror trailer, what interests audiences to see a horror film and what is typical background music. We learnt that the possession/stalker element would be a good and interesting idea to develop for our plot.

Audience Interviews:
 

These are two audience interviews which i edited on an IPad app called 'FilmCut', i couldn't download the actual video so i recorded it separately.

Questionnaires:
Me and my partner created questionnaires across our college peers to find the typical codes and conventions of a horror trailer. This included asking if people would prefer a lot of transitions between shots, the ages which we found would appeal to 16+, with an even score of the gender who would be interested in our trailer. A helpful element which we took from the questionnaire was whether to use a handheld camera throughout our trailer, which we found people liked the sound of.
Feedback from the Media Class:
We pitched our trailer ideas to our college tutor, it was then decided that our first and more in depth plot would be more realistic to create, and was overall the better more thought out idea. We then took these ideas and filmed a short sequence of flash back scenes, of our main character in a mental hospital. After viewing this to the media class we received helpful feedback with improvements being to make the fact that she is a mental hospital more clearly. An element of our trailer which the class really liked was the fast pace editing which we then developed and worked on through the whole trailer. After 3 viewings to the media class of our trailer to show our progress we were given help for improvement each time and strengths to expand, the feedback from our class was really helpful and influential throughout the whole trailer.
Social Network Feedback:
Throughout the whole process of creating the productions I often asked people from my target audience to give feedback on my work through Facebook and twitter. This helped gather the opinions and again make changes were needed and also decide the names on my film, magazine name and production company logo/name. I found it really helpful getting social networking feedback on my film poster; I struggled to make my poster fit in with my other products so the suggestions received helped me a great deal.
Overall Progress and Work Class Feedback:
Through the year I gathered feedback of my Trailer, Magazine and poster from my class and social media which were very helpful in the process of creating my media products and was very influential regarding the genre, and representation of my products.


Trailer commentary:
This is our trailer commentary showing our trailer before social networking feedback and after. On the first cut of our trailer majority of the scenes are flash back asylum sequences and our animatic storyboard. We took the advice and areas of improvement from our media class which can be seen on our final trailer.

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