From feedback on his media productions, the student learned several things. For the trailer, strengths included camera angles and slow motion video, while weaknesses were the music choice. Feedback on the poster noted that changing the image from black and white to color with more activity improved it. Image quality needed improving when merging images for the poster. The magazine cover received some negative feedback, as the orange color did not coordinate well with the other pieces, and using the same image was seen as lazy. Overall, the student learned that music, images, and conventions must work well together in a short trailer to be successful within the genre.

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

2. When constructing my media production pieces
including the ancillary tasks being the magazine front
cover and the poster, i had to ensure that i was
meeting the codes and conventions that i had
researched commonly that are displayed in a social
realism film. The film trailer and ancillary tasks
constructed were aimed at audiences around the age
of 15-24 years old. In order to gain feedback, i asked
members of my school and also people i know outside
of school to get a wide range of opinions of my
productions to i can take their feedback as a way to
improve my productions.
Question Introduction

3. Trailer Feedback
From the feedback that i obtained, it became clear what the weaknesses and
the strengths were from the trailer. Throughout peoples responses, they found
that the main strengths were the camera angles and the use of the slow motion
video that had been put into the trailers. As we used an Iphone 5s, we found it
rather easy to do this as the picture quality was good and the slow motion
effect was a feature on the phone already making it easy to add to the editing
process on Adobe. one other positive was the camera angles, many of the
students i asked felt that the face of the girl was very hidden in most of the
footage, this made them want to view the footage more as they wanted to
reveal her identity rather than see her from behind or the side.
Yet some of the drawbacks included the music. I found that some people
disagreed with the music that was played in the background yet this may have
been due to taste in music therefore could be a biased view. To fix this, i would
pick a more instrumental song that is not well known, that way the music will
not be recognised and may encourage people to enjoy the trailers music a lot
more.

4. Poster Feedback
When asking the questions for the poster, the feedback focused entirely on
how much different the second draft was to the first draft. The feedback
included how different the picture was and how the personalities were
displayed through the use of the half images. In the first draft, the images
were in black and white and were both of a girl in school which was not
entirely appealing, appearing to be very bland and blank looking. Yet in the
redraft, it was evident that adding colour and a different image of the girl in
a run down suburban area made the appearance of the girl more attractive
and eye catching due to their being more activity in the image.
One thing i did learn even from the redraft was the image quality, as the
images were merged together, it was hard to have them blend in exactly
which did make the image look slightly distorted. Therefore if i was to
improve again i would make sure the image quality was a lot better and
accurate.

5. Magazine Front Cover
For the magazine, the feedback was slightly more negative than positive. I
found that people made comments on the shade of orange used for the
headings and the name of the film. This was slightly darker than the trailer
and the poster, which meant that the people did not recognise the magazine
cover as well in coordination to the other products. Also, people were a little
disappointed to see the same ‘bad girl’ image used on the poster and the
magazine front cover, this made the magazine look slightly lazy and less
organised and made the audience want to see more but not in a way that was
because they enjoyed it. yet some of the audiences agreed that it was a good
piece of work and the image did stand out a lot on the page. If i was to
improve this, i would ensure that the image was different and the colour
scheme was exactly the same as the other production pieces.

6. Overall Comments
I felt that overall, i was not knowledgeable on how many of the
conventions would be noticed by the audience and how many of them
would pick out little things that are wrong with the trailer that would
make a massive impact against other media products that fit the social
realism genre. I have learnt that together, the music and the images or
trailers conventions need to work well together in order to make a
successful piece, and that making a piece that fits within a 1.30min
production piece is a lot more challenging that i anticipated.

7. General Audience Comments
Patrick : “during the
trailer is was interesting
to see her personality
change. She went from a
quiet school girl to a
misbehaving thief. It was
evident she had a secret
side it was intriguing”.
Mikaela : “I feel that the
music was very off and
did not suit the trailer
very well, she is a girl and
the music seemed to
aggressive for a young
girl to be portrayed by”.
Jordan: “The slow motion
editing was awesome, it
really made the trailer a
lot more advanced, i did
feel the text displayed
could have been more
interesting and lengthy”.
Kirsty : “I liked the
poster, especially the way
the two images merged, it
was really suited to the
name of the trailer, yet i
felt the magazines colours
did not match as much as
the others”.