A level, A2, evaluation, question 3

1. 3. What have you learned from
your audience feedback?

2. For my media production I needed to make sure
that I was able to make a film trailer, poster and
a magazine cover that would meet the codes
and conventions for a social realism film aimed
teenagers/young adults 15 – 24. I have asked a
number of different students from my school to
give me feedback from my media text and from
taking their feedback on board would help me
improve my work.

3. From all the students I asked, they thought the trailer was
good through its camera shots and its quality as it was
filmed with one of the latest phone, As we used the I
phone 5s we were able to do some editing on the phone
so we made some footage in slow motion which would
make more of a dramatic effect in scenes with, slow
motion effect were liked most by most the viewers. On
the other hand I received some feedback that the music
was kind of off from some scenes, Having heard this I
now know that I have to change footages, change some
edits to being quick snaps and rearrange some footages
around.

4. From my feedback I now know that the music
and footage would need to go well together
otherwise it would not make sense and it would
not be appealing to the viewer. I learnt it is also
important to use more footage of facial
expressions in the trailer as the feedback we got
was stated “you only see the back of her head
all the time” by some of these students.

5. For our poster and magazine the feedback we got was
that the second drafts turned to be the better ones as
they had more colour on them and there was a mid shot
of the main character, in the first draft there was an edit
of a person walking back to front and in black and white
which doesn’t make it appealing, also the same image
was used for both magazine and poster. In terms of the
magazine I learnt that the colour scheme should consist
between 3-4 colours and to have suitable information on
the magazine which will make it appealing to the readers.
I learnt the writing was too quick for some of my
audience due to the time constraints of my teaser trailer I
had to be quite quick.

6. • Overall what I would need to do make a good
trailer is to make sure music and the film
footage go well the together, the music has to
be suitable and to keep my edits fast paced so
it doesn’t make the video longer. Overall I
learnt that making a 1minute 30second trailer
takes longer than expected.

7. • Mikaela - “I think that the music did no suit the trailer as much and
should have had a slower vibe, overall with the editing and camera shots
looked good.”
• Hassina - “I liked the ending of the trailer as her personality seems to
change because at school she seemed invisible, from this I can tell there
were 2 sides to her.”
• Mustafa – “I liked the slow motion edits on the trailer and it creates some
type of a dramatic effect, throughout the trailer you can see the back of
her mostly and not enough of her face.”
• Ajay – “I liked the music as it could tell the story of the film through the
trailer, but it seems the writing was a bit rushed.”