The document summarizes feedback received from focus groups on a film trailer, poster, and magazine created by the document's author. For the trailer, feedback was mixed but identified that the visuals and soundtrack complemented each other well and represented the intended age range of the audience. However, viewers felt there was too much dark imagery and wanted more context for the film's narrative. Feedback on the poster was mostly positive, noting that the weapons depicted linked it to the post-apocalyptic genre. While the magazine layout was called professional, feedback identified ways to improve the splash text and footer text contrast.
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2. Trailer
From the focus group we received both positive and negative feedback through both the written responses
and the verbal questions. The questionnaire revealed that the age rating we were aiming for was captured in
the trailer as it was a half and half split between 15 to 20 years and 18 to 25 which was what we were aiming
for as an audience member stated “It represent the characters age.” Which is the response we were looking for
as we wanted our audience to be able to relate to the characters.
We asked the question weather the visuals and soundtrack complement one another, the response was that
the group was in mutual agreement it “Fitted the theme of the film” and one member of the group also made
the link that it can be seen to represent / “resemble the heart” or its beating. This was an effect we aimed to
create from the start and so to hear that someone had identified it was relieving.
They also gave us some improvements for our trailer. They all agreed that the trailer itself contained to many
patches of dark, although they said it worked well in the ending with the build of suspense, but apart from that
it was too prolonged throughout. “Too much black, not necessary.”
Also the majority raised the question about the narrative, in particular the cause of reason for the downfall of
society “needs more evidence” and some suggested things like showing shots of “nuclear waste” containers to
justify the narrative. We on purposely gave the viewer little to go on as we wanted there to remain an era of
mystery in the trailer to entice the viewer. Also as we followed The Road quite closely we fond that in their
trailer they did not show the distinctive evidence of an apocalypse of any for of overall reason for the world
ending, so we felt we didn’t need it either, as we liked the effect it produced.
3. Here are some of the pie charts showing the results from the written focus group response.
(For all charts look for deprived focus group written feed back on blog)
4. Poster
For my poster I received a range of feedback from piers,
people of different ages and backgrounds to my target
audience. I asked a series of questions like “Do you think
the poster represents the genre of post apocalyptic
film?” To which most replied yes. One individual talked
about how the use of the bat and the other weapons
allowed them to make the link between them and the
genre. “The blunt weapons help to link it to the thriller/
apocalypse genre.” This is as it is a common convention
in the majority of Post-Apocalyptic films and so people
can now link these to certain genre. One of the most
commented on areas is the sky, some said that it was
very eye-catching and creates a mood of the piece, also
they liked the use of the birds as it brings out the themes
of nature. Another good comment from a audience
member was that they said they “didn’t notice the
hanging man at first” but once they did it gave the piece
a lot “darker feel.” I was very please with this response as
I wanted this to happen to the viewer, to at first see a
relatively peaceful setting bar the blood on the
character, only to then see this dark figure hanging from
the tree.
The only negative feedback I received was on the billing
block, that it seemed to stick out amongst the rest of the
piece. And someone commented “it doesn’t fit with the
colour scheme.”
5. Magazine
The positive feedback on my magazine was
predominantly surrounding the layout of the page.
On more than one occasion the viewer said it had a
“professional” look to it and that they liked the
clean background with the grey fade. The colour of
the fonts make for a classical look of the page as I
haven't used to many different colours so as to
keep it simple.
This is the piece in which I received the most
criticism from , for possible improvements. Three
key areas I found I needed to improve were my
Splash my footer area and my spacing around the
page. With regards to the splash two people out of
those I asked said they didn’t think the black
background behind “The Deprived” looked very
good, which I understand as I only used it to bring
out the plash more because of the light background
the white deprived font would have been too lost in
the also light background. Also I only realised when
I had been gives feedback that my font colour at the
bottom of the page was not suited to the
background, it would have been more effective to
have white text instead of black to contrast with the
grey background.
