Evaluation-What have you learnt from your audience feedback?-Audience Feedback

There were many ways I wanted to collect audience feedback from our short film and ancillary tasks to get as much feedback on my work as possible. This allows us to learn what was effective in our work and what could be improved upon. Getting audience feedback is vital with any work, as for example if we were a large leading film company and our initial audience feedback of an idea or trailer for a film was negative, it would be an indication of how successful/unsuccessful it would be. Saving time and money.

Our first way of getting audience feedback was through posting our film onto Youtube, and the link of this on Facebook. Allowing people to comment on both giving their opinion.

We got 11 likes from this, and all positive feedback. This shows an initial positive start to our feedback process.

We also put our film on Youtube. Below is an image of our film showing how many hits we received after the film being up for two weeks. Also we received a personal message by a viewer of which we have print screened as shown below:

Again this shows really good feedback for us. We have a large amount of people who have watched are film in such a short space of time and all seem to have enjoyed it.

We also carried out questionnaires. We felt this was the best way to get statistics into public opinion from both our target audience and others. To compare and see if we succeeded in targeting our specific audience. Also if we made the film entertaining and look professional etc.

Firstly we got together a group of 15-16 year olds, played our film for them and handed out are questionaires. We then did the same again but with a group of 17-18 year olds. This was to see how effective we made the film for our wider age range audience ensuring both found the film sucessful. Below shows our questionaire, and some responses.

This questionaire was carried out by an over 40 year old. This again was positive feedback, revealing that our film could have possibly exceeded our target audience and appeal to and even wider age range.

Here a Male within our target audience answered a questionaire. This shows that are film appeals to males from our target audience age range, through positive feedback.

Again someone within our age category for our target audience, however female, showing that our film has been sucessful in appealing to both genders.

This questionaire was carried out by a 15 year old. This just about makes the age certificate we gave our film. They have said that the film made them feel 'scared', therefore showing we chose a good age boundary as it is suitable for the viewer but wouldnt be if they were any younger, as it would become too scary.

Here the person has said that the film 'kept them interest'. This was something both myself and Abigail wanted to fulfil within our film by building tension and suspense constantly, and including the element of surprise through our repetition.

After carrying out our questionaire we decided to create some diagrams to visualise our results, to see how positive or negative they are and in what areas.

We also sent our short film off to a few professionals within the filming industry. Below is the feedback we received:

Overall I am very pleased with this feedback as it shows we made the most of the equipment and funds we had, also showed that the more major desicions of a dual narrative and no dialogue proved succesful.

                                                   

After receiving public feedback from our questionaires, emails and online advertisements, we also wanted to here what the actors of our film had to say. I beleive this is the most effective way of seeing how well we worked together, how effecient our filming production was, and how they feel about the final outcome.