QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS (task 3)

After viewing our trailer, 10 volunteers filled out a questionnaire which I had put together to analyse their understanding of our trailer and get the feedback relevant to the evaluation question: '3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?' 

The questionnaire was mostly multiple choice to keep it simple for the people who were taking part. 

To asses our effectiveness at portraying genre conventions, our first question asked why they thought the genre was. 100% of candiadates said they felt it was a romantic comedy, this would suggest to us that we were successful in keeping to genre conventions. 


The second question was about the quality of acing in our trailer, all candidates felt this this was either 'good' or 'very good'. This was reassuring to us as it meant that the handwork we had sent of writing and directing would not be wasted due to a poor standard of acting.

The third question was about our choice of music in the trailer. Although one candidate felt that this was 'average' the rest all felt that it was ether 'good' or 'very good'. The music had been a struggle for us as we had to find some that was un-copyrighted, so it was nice to get feedback suggests that this time in post-poduction had not been wasted.

The forth question asked audience members what they thought of our choice of miss en seen in the trailer. The Suburban London setting was something that most people found was 'good', and 2 felt was 'very good'. I think this was down to the way that the suburbs of London can offer the bet of both worlds in the sense that we can portray globally iconic London characteristics, such as red buses alongside the tranquil setting for a British Romantic-Comedy.

The Final Question asked the audience to rate their enjoyment of our trailer/film overall. This was where we were most pleased with the results as almost all audience said that they thought it was either 'good' or 'very good'. I feel that this was important and whilst film making is, of course, an art form, if our piece was the being professionally released it would be driven to success or failure by the consumers.

There were also 'further comments' and questions on what age rating they felt the film would have were also coherant with what we were going for when we set out to make the film. Therefor I feel that overall our film has been a sucess.

Questionnaire (task 3)

.AUDIENCE FEEDBACK.

What genre would you say our film coheres to? (tick one)

[     ]Romantic Comedy

[     ]Action Adventure

[     ]Thriller Horror

[     ]Drama

How would you rate the acting in our trailer?

[     ] Very Good

[     ]Good

[     ]Average

[     ]Poor

How would you rate the music choice in our trailer?

[     ] Very Good

[     ]Good

[     ]Average

[     ]Poor

How would you rate the choice of loactions (mise en scen) in our trailer?

[     ] Very Good

[     ]Good

[     ]Average

[     ]Poor

How would rate our film overall?

[     ] Very Good

[     ]Good

[     ]Average

[     ]Poor

What age range would you say our film is best suited to

[     ]  U (Universal)

[     ]  PG (Parental Guidance)

[     ]  12

[     ]  15

[     ]  18

Any further Comments:




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Evaluation task 2

'How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?'

The following is a magazine article on how our main product (the 'Plus One' trailer) is linked to our ancillary texts (the poster and magazine cover).

Evaluation task 1.

'In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?'

story board

FILMING PLANNING - Previous Productions.

Before filming it was important to analyse As a pair, Sam and I have done many previous productions together. Most notably our AS film 'Downfall'. This was the story of a wealthy man living in central London who loses everything.

Here is a link to our opening sequence and teaser trailer on another blog:

http://samrichardsa2mediablog4173.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/sam-richards-and-charlie-palmer-cogan.html

Looking back, I think that we relied far to heavily on the Mise En Scen in this production, and therefor the characterisation was not as strong as we would have liked. We also had a lack of establishing shots, something that we will be careful not to miss out in 'Plus One', our current production. On the other hand we have lots of good time lapse shots of famous london landmarks, such as the houses of parliament and the London Eye that can be re-used. Saving us valuable time when we begin our final filing.

Magazine Final

Our final magazine cover contains, the main character at the centre of the page, the rules of thirds has been implemented to ensure the poster is balanced and all parts are proportionate. We also moved some of the side features so that they were not in the characters eye line. By opting for a simplistic background, we can be sure that no focus will be drawn from the main image and Title of the Film or Magazine. I feel this magazine cover fits well to the conventions of Romantic Comedy film magazine cover.