1. 3.What did you learn from your
audience feedback?

2. My film trailer was shown to at least 40 people during a
screening and they gave feedback at the end of it. The next
few slides are about some of the comments that I received
and what I learned from them.

3. POSITIVE COMMENTS
“Good use of props and makeup”
“This was proper funny, but I really liked it the music was good I
like how it changes”
“It was humorous I enjoyed it”
“Amazing”
“It was excellent”

4. NEGATIVE COMMENTS
“Titles need work, Interesting details – horror conventions”
This was true because the trailer wasn’t completed at the time. This gave me a
chance to do a good job on the title and actually make it work so that it could be
pleasing to the target audience. So because of this feedback I was able to make
amends and actually produce titling that was worth looking at without having to
receive anymore negative feedback on the subject.

5. “Needs titling and voiceover Date and time of the film coming out.
Music was too loud for their voices”
In response to this I included the titling and the date and time of the movie’s release. I
wasn’t quite keen on including a voice-over because it wouldn’t have corresponded with
the research I had done on horror film trailers. My findings were that the use of voice-
over’s was a fifty fifty thing and it was really a must for me to use one. The alterative
though was to include texts at different points in the trailer which would then heighten the
drama and as well elaborate a little more on what the trailer would actually be about.

6. Titling on different scenes of the trailer to create more drama

7. “Sound was too loud. Very good”
I found that this was actually true and at some points in trailer the volume of the music and
sound effects would overshadow the voices of the characters. So I went back to final cut
and adjusted the sound levels until they were at an acceptable level and also coordinated
well with the voices of the characters. I learned that it’s important to have more than one
person listen to the different sounds on your film to make sure that they all work well
together and that the volume level is acceptable or else it just ruins everything.

8. Overall I have learned that feedback is important especially before the
official release of a film in order to see what things you can improve on to achieve
a higher quality which will also make it more compelling to your target audience.
I also learned that the titling and the sound seemed to be my weakest points and
everything else was all right. And since then I made it a point to work on those
two areas and actually make them a lot better.
Without feedback it’s impossible to know whether you’re doing the right
thing or not which is not very good because you won’t know whether your
product is good or bad until it’s too late. So feedback helps you improve and
become better because it lets you work on your weak points hence producing
more quality work.