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Question 3 What have you learned from your audience feedback ?

Audience feedback Is the most important thing to consider before attempting to create any media product . Audience feedback will help you put together your product it will allow you to listen and understand other peoples point of views, if you do not have anyone else is opinion on a product you are making your product may not be so successful as it will only have one view which is yours. You cannot be to biased.

Why is audience feedback important ?

Negative feed back for trailer- What do you think of our plot?

1) All of our audience who were interview said that the killers motif wasn’t very reasonable , they said that he cannot go around killing victims because his mother has left his family . However during research on slasher/thriller movies we learned that killers in slasher films normally have a psychological problem which leads them to being troubled in the mind , psychological problems can come from home . Our killer in our film trailer was troubled as a young boy which made him very different in the sense that he could not tolerate females. We chose to not go with the audience feedback on this negative feed back due to the fact that in our trailer we knew how we were going to emphasise the killers motif to make it clear. I personally think that the audience didn’t understand the killers motif clear enough because they didn’t research the genre as deep as me and my group did .

2) Another negative feedback we received was from our teacher and also our class mates , during the editing process me and my group had made a lot of changes and extra filming we were told that in our trailer there were too many long scenes which were giving away the next scene they were to predicted and also that there was too much of killer stalking but not enough of the females acting upon his actions . It didn’t really look like a stalker slasher film there was not enough of a setting up for the story for example too much of the villan and lesson of the females victims ( protagonist and antagonist).

3) We were told that our main character the killer was not wearing clothes that was suitable for his character in the trailer, he looked too casual , even though this was honest opinions from a class mate we could not really act upon it as it was too late and also as a group we thought that it was good that the character looked like an everyday person because his character was meant to be mysterious .

4 people were interviewed individually by me and my group we created questions that would be suitable for our trailer. Before starting the filming we gave the 4 interviewees a brief summary of our plot we made sure to include the most relevant bits of information.

Our pitch for trailer.

Survey monkey I was able to ask my audiences different question which were related to my film trailer, the questions which I had asked my audience allowed me to gain a better understanding of what they were looking for and expecting in my slasher film trailer, some of these questions were also included in my pre production audience feedback when I interviewed 4 people ,we interviewed are audience visually.

Here is my genre mood board it was one of the first moodboards I created before researching my genre in depth. Personally I thought that creating a mooboard would be very leading for me as I would gain ideas to present to my group about what I have found and researched to help us put together ideas for our trailer.

Masthead ExperimentsThese are mastheads that my target audience looked at with me , most of the mastheads were from the font website called DAFONT.com . Throughout my production I only used some of these fonts for my drafts and practice magazines . I subverted from some of the masthead ideas that my target audience picked out for me to use for my film magazine and poster because as I was looking at real media text magazines such as the “Scream Magazine” I realized that the masthead experiments that I picked were very different to slasher film magazines , slasher film magazines were big bold and simple , so during the process of creating my film magazine and poster I did more research on mastheads. For my Poster I used a very big bright masthead which I was sure would attract the readers.After explaining to some of my classmates why I chose these two fonts for my anicallary tasks they understood and accepted my choice on selecting the two fonts.

Film magazine masthead.

Poster Masthead

Are the motives of the killer clear ? yesno

Do the charcters approrately repre-sent the genre ? yesno

Chart Title

does are killer and victims conform to the stereotypes yesno

do you think our tagline sins can be forgiven is ap-propriate for our genre ?

yes no

4 main people were interviewed

“No his point is not valid , you cannot kill because of the killers background the reason s are stupid “?

“ Yes , the characters are typical and expected characters in this genre. However I would say that the genre of your film is slasher and not horror “.

“ Yes you would expect characters in this genre to have a motif like the killers as he conforms to his character but I personally feel that the killers background to kill is stupid and unnecessary”.

“No because it gives a sense of religion and your film has nothing to do with religion”“Yes, because your trailer is about family and revenge”.

Chart Title

what do you think of our plot in relation to horror and slasher genre ? yes yes

“Really good and unique you thought of different elements to include, other films of this genre can be really predicted and boring”.“ overall the plot is okay however it would be better if you change the killers motif as it doesn’t make so much sense to why he is killing females from the business industry only.”