evaluation 3- What Have You Learned From Your Audience Feedback?

Evaluation 3

Psychosis trailer

During the whole production of our campaign, for our thriller film psychosis, when creating and developing different parts of our campaign, whether that was the actual trailer, the film poster or the magazine cover, I was given feedback from many different people, such as my teacher or other students in my group, but due to there feed back, they helped me develop three different media texts that I felt was very effective in terms of my whole campaign. When asking my teachers and other students in my group what they felt I could change to improve my film trailer, the main change that my teacher encouraged me to change or in this case include in my trailer, to get more effect, is the use of transitions. For instance, at first when there was a change of scene in my trailer, the scene basically just quickly cut to the next scene, so after my group received the feedback of adding some transitions, we decided to edit our trailer, so when there was a change in scenes,instead of just cutting quickly to the next scene, we included a fade to black transition which helped create more tension into the trailer. Receiving the feedback from our teacher, was a success for my campaign as it made our trailer look more professional like it is an actual trailer. Furthermore, we also received even more feedback for our trailer, from other students,which again helped create a much more effected trailer. For instance,when we asked some other students what you think we should include or change in our trailer to help improve it, we received some feedback, saying that we should change the production company name and logo as, they felt that both the name and logo, suit our thriller film and they also said how it looked a bit unprofessional. The name of our production company was called 'Prophit productions, and the logo was the very mystical looking women. From the feedback that we was given from other students, they made us realise that the name and logo wasn't suitable for a thriller genre film, so we changed in to 'Eclipse Studio's' and again from feedback from other students, they felt that the change in name was a lot better. Due to the name being eclipse we felt that the logo should obviously link to the name, so we used an image of an eclipse, which again was a much more suitable name to use. Listening to this feedback again was a big success as the new name and logo for our production company suited our trailer much more than the first original one.

Film poster

Again, like our film trailer I also decided to ask our teachers and other student in our group, for some feedback again, for what they reckon I could include or change in my film poster, that they think could improve it. After talking to my teacher, the first thing they said I could change, to help improve the poster is to change the position of the 'Psychosis' because they felt that placing it at the bottom of the poster, positioned in the centre didn't exactly make the poster look professional and it also blocked the two main images. After spending some time, changing the psychosis title about, I realised that the best positions where I felt the title should be placed is either at the top of the poster in the centre of the poster or to keep it where it originally was but move it too the right. I showed my teachers what two positions I felt was the best and they gave me some more feedback, explaining that they felt that if I moved the title up it made my poster look more professional and clearer, as the title didn't block either of the two main images. In addition to this, I then asked some of the students again what change or inclusion, they felt would improve my poster. I was given, some feedback from one of the students, who said I should edit the light bulb image that was apart of my poster, so that it actually shined. I felt that this feedback was a very good idea, so when I included the shine onto the light bulb image it made parts of my poster look much more realistic and it also gave my poster much more effect. After receiving feedback from both my teacher and other students, I felt as though the feedback they gave me help me create a much better film poster overall.

Magazine cover

When asking my teachers and other students again for some feedback on what they think I should change or include in my magazine cover, I was given some very helpful feedback. For instance, when asking my teachers, they gave me some feedback, which was to include some other images of other films on the cover, as it would make the magazine cover look a lot more realistic and as well as that, originally my magazine did look quite empty, so adding the images would take up more room on the cover, which is what real front covers look like. So after getting some images from, other groups, I included the images which I felt did thoroughly improve my magazine cover, so overall this feedback was another success. Furthermore, after asking a few of the students in my class, what they feel I need to include or change to help improve my magazine cover, one of the student said that they felt that the images was to clear, which decreased the amount of tension being created in the image, so he said that I should edit the images to give them a much more distorted face, to create much more tension and eeriness in the magazine cover. Doing this would improve my magazine cover as the film itself is a thriller and those film do have a lot of tension in them, so my magazine would be much more suitable to the film that it is advertising. So if I was to decide whether the feedback back the student gave me, was good, I would say that it was very successful feedback and again has really helped improve my magazine cover.