EVALUATION-Q3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Since the first draft of my trailer, poster and movie magazine i got individual feedback off different people all the way through to my final peice. It helped me extreamly because as i am working on my own, it was helpful to have a different set of eyes to point out things i would not have noticed on my own, to improve my work.

When i had completed a final draft for my film trailer, the whole class got to see it so they could give there feedback. The main negative feedback i got was that the narrative needed to change or more shots needed to be added in to make it make more sense and so it was clearer what was happening. I acted upon this by firstly changing the text at the beginning to explain what was happening more, instead of having to film extra shots. The text said originally 'Falling in love is susposed to be a beautiful thing...But what happens when...You fall in love...With a serial killer?...' People said with the text like this it's not that clear whether all the clip's of him killing are in the past or wether he's still killing whilst falling for the woman. I re-watched my trailer myself after the feedback and decided to best way to change the narrative would be to show that all the killings were in the past. To do this i turned all of thoses clips into black and white and in as the romantic scenes were just finishing and the scenes from the past were coming on, there was a flash of white light to indicate they are in the past too. After the the trailer this leaves the audience wondering what the murderer is going to do with the girl in the beginning: whether he's going to kill her too, or wether he is actually falling in love with someone. Leaving the audience questioning is what's going to make them watch the film.
The only other negative feedback i got for my trailer was that the second half is mainly concentrating on the girl's, so it needs to be more clear that the man in the first half, who is suposedly falling in love is the same man in the second half, who is killing the woman. To overcome this problem i simply shot ab few more clips of the man and added them into the second half so there was more footage of him.


Once i had completed the first draft for my film poster and magazine cover i also shown these to the class.
I had created two poster's and wanted to know which one people liked the most and about 90% of people said they prefered the second one. As for the feedback for it everyone said they really liked it and that nothing needed to be changed. They thought that the layout of it was alot more effective and worked well in black and white. Also the picture of the girl is made alot more effective in the second poster than the first. Therefore i obviously chose the second idea for my final.

First Poster Second Poster

For my magazine cover i asked people which background they liked most out of two pictures of different trees and the set background called patina. I had had it orginally set for the first set of trees but after my feedback everyone said they prefered the 'patina' background so i reset it to that.

The other feedback was just small things after that, for example the shapes that were placed behind the advertisments were solid blocks and people thought that they should be less obvious. To do this i changed the opacity down from 100% of colour to 65% which made them more see through then solid colour. Then people just gave advise about moving the positions of things around a little but, like they said the text 'All new movies reviewed and rated' could do with being moved down a little bit so it's not blending into the white shirt of the main picture.

I welcomed everyone's feedback and asked people to be as critical as possible, so i could change my work accordingly so i could get the best possible outcome.