The document discusses the importance of getting feedback from peers and the target audience during the creation process. The author created a draft of a film trailer and showed it to a peer who provided constructive criticism. This helped the author identify areas that needed improvement. For example, one scene in the first draft was misinterpreted, so the author was able to modify it based on the feedback. Showing subsequent drafts to peers and others in the target audience helped ensure any issues with story flow or clarity were addressed before finishing the trailer. The feedback received was helpful for improving the trailer.

1. Raheem Gray

2. Its vital to have peer and target
audience feedback when producing a
something like a film. Their
constructive criticism will help to
make your work more engaging.
After doing a draft of my work I
showed a peer who helped me with
the concept of my project (Niall
Murray who is also seen in the
credits at the end of the trailer). I
would often ask Niall a few question
about my visual and written work to
just double check I’m on the right
path with my targeted audience.
Without the feedback given, the
texts and film won’t be clear nor well
presented. Feedback/criticism given
will allow me to make improvements
where necessary..

3. While editing the first draft of
Warblock, there was a scene which was
misinterpreted by my targeted
audience which was important it was
identified in the first draft or else the
whole trailer would not make sense.
Because of this, I was able to adapt my
film so I could modify the fault made in
the trailer. As I was creating the trailer, I
thought some things were very clear
whilst I thought about them, but just
because it was clear to me doesn’t
mean others won’t find it confusing.
“The film is well set and the story is
straightforward and simple. However,
because it’s very simple, you cannot add
daytime scenes including another topic in
the trailer because it did not follow the
story properly.”

4. After I made adjustments in the
second draft of the film trailer, I went
back to the peer who first identified
the fault to see if the confusion is
gone. Just to confirm the clearance
of the fault, I also asked another
person of my targeted audience to
see if there’s any problem with the
story flow. They both give me the
reassurance that nothing was wrong
with the plot of my film trailer which
helped a lot as I could now forward
on with the rest of my trailer.
Feedback at this point is very
essential as you have time to edit the
problem before you even declare the
trailer finished.
“Yeah, problem is gone now, I like
how you kept the trailer in scenes
that follow each other (continuity in
the scenes/shots) because it doesn’t
confuse us as the audience”

5. The feedback I received for my
magazine trailer was positive. I had
one other magazine frontpage but
my targeted audience made it quite
clear they preferred this magazine
frontpage as it looked more youthful
and appealing to our young
generation. Although feedback was
quite useful whilst creating the
magazine, I felt that my magazine
would be more successful by
comparing it to the industry type
magazines which gave me a lot of
tips for my own. For example, the
EMPIRE magazine inspired me with a
lot of little things in my magazine.
One of my magazine frontpage concepts
which wasn’t favoured by my targeted
audience.

6. Look back over my work, as a whole I
feel that was very helpful in the
filming process but not with written
text analysis and my magazine. Most
criticisms given to me were ones I
knew I had to attend to so it weren’t
useful in that aspect. Regardless, it
was good to receive tips from others
about how to improve my film trailer
even more in order for it to become
a successful trailer.