What have you learned from your audience

feedback?Richard Jones

Could you tell it was a trailer?

Yes

No

As you can see from these results my work is clearly recognizable as a trailer. This is due to following the codes and conventions of similar trailers that I researched which include; the certificate slide at the beginning, the montage of clips throughout the trailer and the soundtrack I chose.

Did the music fit the trailer?

Yes

No

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Most people agreed that the music fitted the trailer. I used a track that would build tension and fit the genre of social realism. Unfortunately the music isn't to everyone's taste as it is a specific genre.

Could you understand the storyline?

Yes

No

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I am happy that most people understood the story line as I spent a lot of time editing the dialogue to make it flow well. However there are still more things I could of done to make the storyline more understandable. If I had a bigger budget I would of recreated the actual car crash and maybe a funeral to follow after. I also would of got more actors in to the club scene to make it look more realistic. These things would all help I making the storyline clearer.

Did it give too much of the storyline away?

Yes

No

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Most people said that the trailer didn’t give to much of the storyline. I am happy about this as the most important role of a trailer is to make the audience want to see more and I believe I did this.

Did you enjoy watching it?

Yes

No

I am very pleased to see that everyone who watched my trailer enjoyed it. I am happy that all my hard work has paid off and has seen positive results.

Why?

Here are just a few comment that people made about my trailer.

“It was very well made and had a good story”

“it was interesting and edited well”

“the characters seemed realistic” “intense”

“very clear storyline and professional”

“camera angles were really good”

“something a lot of people my age would watch”

What could I have done to make it better?

“show him partying more in clubs” “ there were too many shot of the car at the start” “ made it a little longer” “make the characters voices louder”

From the feedback there are 3 main things that were apparent

1) 5 people said make it longer. I feel if I had the time I would of filmed more for each scene but because of my limits I spent a lot of time on each bit to make it the best I could.

2) the voices of the characters voices should be louder. When I look back on it now I feel I should of more carefully matched the characters voices as some get drowned out by the music.

3) less shots of the car. Although this was only one persons comment I feel I could of taken one out to keep the suspense throughout the trailer.

Out of 10, what would you mark my film trailer at?

7

8

9

10

From these results you can see my lowest mark was 7 and 50% of the audience that watched my trailer gave it 10/10. From reading my improvement comments if I repeated the process of making this trailer I feel I could get 75% of the audience to give full marks.