audience feedback

1. Araksan Abubakar 5363
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*There had been many times where we had received feedback
leading to our construction area, the first being our target
audience research. Here, we had created a survey, of which
10 people had answered, to understand what the audience
would like to see in our trailer. This included whether we
should have flashbacks in our trailer, if our protagonist should
be a male or female depending on which gender is suitable
for our genre and whether we should have a dark trailer or a
dark trailer with elements of light, from example some
romance.

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* Beforehand, we had decided on our genre to be a psychological
thriller, so in order to recreate this genre we had asked
questions based on what is more suitable for this genre. We
also asked what type of music would be appropriate for our
trailer. At first, 70% of the audience had said instrumental music
would suit our genre, however later on; this had changed when
we had received feedback during our construction section.

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*In our focus group interviews, we had asked why certain things
would be appropriate, such as the plot (although we had
changed this after much consideration). We had expanded many
questions from our questionnaire to see why they had suggested
those things . From this, we tried to improve our work based on
the feedback we had received.
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5. *
*Another time where we had received feedback was from the
showcase. Before the screening, we had asked the audience to focus
mainly on the narrative and the music used. We found out that we
needed to make the role of certain characters important. We were
also told that the characters voice is not heard much in the
therapist scene as the soundtrack is too loud, so we had adjusted
this so that the dialogue is heard clearly. Also, we were told that
instrumental music did not suit the atmosphere of the trailer, so we
had challenged the conventions of thriller trailers and used a
soundtrack instead. This had improved our trailer and made it more
effective as the lyrics of the songs used related to the mood set.

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*Fortunately, the audience had understood the
narrative clearly, but they wanted to see more of a
montage, a quick succession of cuts to increase the
tension. We therefore began to film extra scenes
that could be useful, mostly filler shots. Our final
feedback session was great as we had made changes
to our trailer, the only area we were told to focus
on was smoothing out the transitions from scenes to
scenes. Other than that, some of the decisions we
had made prior to the showcase were great and
other areas had changed and become better due to
the feedback we had received.