What Have You Learned From Audience Feedback

What Have You Learned From The Audience Feedback

TO get the Audience more involved with the project i shot a couple of interviews and questionnaires so that i could find out what the target audience would like to see in a horror trailer. with the responses i found out that people would like to see less blood and death in the trailer because they would like to see all of it in the film. also the ages to go see a Horror film were 15- 33 year old which i thought was useful information because it will help me classify what audience i would like to go see the film. i also found their feedback for my poster useful because at first my initial idea for the poster was zombies crowding over a dead body, but the audience found that squeamish and felt uncomfortable with it because they easy they also didn’t like too much of the story was given away. so i revamped the idea and changed it to half human and half zombie

because it seemed more effective and was what the audience’s wanted. i showed the first ten people who purchased my magazine a chance to get a sneak preview of clips of the films and the unfinished version of the trailer and got alot of positive feedback. they liked the fact that it wasn't a typical horror that followed a linear narrative but that it is a survival horror film which has a lot of twists and turn which make it one of the most exciting films of the year. what makes the film different is that it doesn't aim for fear that you can see but fear of the mind and fear of being alone. What is more scary than being alone for the rest of your life with know one around. thats the point i wanted to get across with the film and most of the audience ran out of the screening because it had affected them sub consciously, this is why my film could win Scariest film of the year. what made the trailer successful was what the audiences asked when i gave out my questionnaires and these were quick shots because they wanted to see alot of action but not for long because they didn't want the story to be ruined, they also wanted a slow shot at the beginning which i made the establishing shot to show off the hero and his location. I also added a voiceover which i thought was typical in trailers just to give the audience more of the story line and what it is about. alot of the audiences commented on the editing and the use of various effects such as quick shots,m Freeze Frames, mid shots and voiceovers. they all agreed that these things made the trailer very effective and interesting. the audience also liked the font i used and the different captions i used for my Magazine front cover, they liked how i included interviews and at top 40 list of Horrors of the 21st century, they thought this was effective because it gave the impression that this was a genuine magazine and not just a cheap excuse for a magazine. the magazine caught the attention of the audiences because of its Font which was large and eye catching and ‘Very Colorful was one of the responses i got’

The font itself was very effective because it highlights the darkness of the film and i gave it a kind of see through look to highlight the hero was all alone in the world and gave it a black background to show that he is alone and that something evil is lurking in the shadows. the audience agreed with this technique because it is a chance for them too look deeper into the text and reveal the secrets and reasons why are did things the way they were and not just as a cheap imitation of a cover. I looked on Pearl and Dean and looked at similar Horror films that are compared to mine and found out that most of the films are share a similar linear story line, which is Some is in the world alone, he finds survivors and then they fight and unknown life form and then it ends with them together. i made my story line different and broke off from the linear-ness of such story lines and made my story line about a boy who is alone and thinks he is alone but is actually being watched by a government association who are putting bets on his life where he lives or not. I got very positive feedback when i first explained this to the audience to see what reception i would get and i got some very positive feedback and they said they liked my originality.