What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

Positive Feedback: From our audience feedback, we learnt that many people had been impressed by our choice of location and thought it fitted well as a horror convention. The idea of the newspaper also went down well with our audience, some comments including 'really professional and more realistic', the idea of the return of the repressed also caught our audience's eye. Through audience feedback we have also recognised the comments suggesting the build up was shown at its best through the montage of clips closer to the end of the trailer. Another positive comment we recieved was about the point of view shots through the fence watching the protagonist running. Our audience research also came through positive about the repetition of clips, such as the candles and also the 'hand held' camera footage.

Thing to be improved on: From our audience feedback we have learnt that our choice of music could have been better. Many of the comments we receieved suggested that the music was more suited to the 'action' film genre. In some of the settings throughout the trailer were said to be too light and would have been better to have less light and a darker environment. The scene with the protagonist running away from the building many have suggested to be too much.

Overall, I think the effort of finding a good location was well worth it, as we got most of our positive comments came from our location. Although some people had suggested that some of the outside settings could have been darkened, mostly people seemed impressed by the darkness and lighting in the other shots, such as the spotlighting and candle light. Considering mise-en-scene, most comments were good on this topic, although some said that the ouiji board scene could be improved as they did not know what they were meant to read, or whether the actions were supposed to be meaningful in any way. On the topic of soundtrack, the frequency on improvable comments about this were high. Although the audience agreed the 'booms' worked well with the clips the main soundrack they believe to be better suited in an action film.

Although considering the feedback, our group had decided to keep some elements the same as we believed they worked well with what we were trying to achieve and also brought the feeling of a horror film. I believe we edited our trailer well and the location and also our choice of shots and montages worked well. If we had the chance to start again we have agreed we would have liked to shoot more gore and torture to make the trailer seem more realistic.