What have you learned from your audience feedback? Evaluation question for Media A level looking at our short film tabula.

1. What have you learned
from your audience
feedback?
Tom Billington

2. Prove knowledge of how you engaged with your T.A.
• Out target audience was fans of paranormal horror
films.
• These people are usually teens or young adults
who like the thrill and excitement.
• We decided to ask several people for feed back o
both our first and final draft
• We filmed the replies from our audience

3. Strengths of what you did, and weaknesses
Strengths Weaknesses
We asked our target audience
detailed questions that were relevant
to our short film.
Not enough people were asked
The answers can be understood
easier as you can see/hear tone,
pitch, facial expression and body
language
The camera could be pressuring and
so only short answers are given
Easily assessable to the production
team and they can refer to it when
necessary.
The answers bay be a bit shaky in
terms of there not being a simple yes
or no answer

4. Feedback on the music (First draft VS Final draft)
• When we asked 3 people what they though of the
music 100% of them said that they though it was
too quiet and wasn’t dramatic enough.
• When we edited the music and showed our target
audience the final draft, 66.6% said they like it and it
added a lot of tension however 33.3% said they felt
it was too dramatic.

5. How did the feedback inform and change your project?
Topic of feedback
Feed back
received (first
draft)
Changes made
Feedback
received (final
draft
Music
As I said in the previous
slide, we were told that
the music didn't really fit
the film.
Added in a variety of
crescendos and
accidental sound to add
tension.
Most people said that we
used music that was
dramatic enough however
someone said it was too
loud.
Camera work
The camera work was
sometimes at the wrong
angle at it as difficult to
know what to look at.
We re filmed the
majority of our footage
at different angles and
choose the best.
Everyone said that they
couldn’t take their eyes off
the screen and knew
exactly what was
happening.
Editing
The editing was good
but at some points too
slow and it made the
short feel less tense.
We went back to the
editing and for the parts
where we wanted it to be
scary had the shots
change quicker
People felt the effect
and the tension
increased
dramatically.

6. What were the limitations of your methods of gathering
feedback? Why? How would you improve it?
Limitation Problems caused Solution
Questions not being
answered in enough
detail.
The answers weren’t
accurate enough
Give the people we
ask more time to think
about their answer
Not enough people
were asked
Not a wide range of
answers- everything
we got was similar
Ask around 20 people
for feedback.
The camera could be
pressuring and so only
short answers are
given
The answers were to
short and shaky and
people seemed very
nervous when
answering questions
Rather than having a
camera, just record
their voice and get
people who were more
confident

7. Why is feedback important for you as film maker
• The feed back is important as it lets us know what
they think and how they think it should be improved
• We changed the ending of our short film to suit the
audience more and make it more effective
• As well as this the feedback is important as we get
the audiences perspective and we can understand
what emotions they feel when watching it and how
we can get those emotions through out