Question 1 asked viewers if they thought our trailer conformed to the conventions of a coming of age genre. Common codes and conventions in a coming of age film involve settings of schools, parties, general houses. They involve characters such as misbehaving adolescents, cheerleaders, geeks. Props are often alcohol, drugs, books, cars. The feedback revealed that just over 65% of viewers agreed that we used certain conventions in a coming of age genre. This highlights that to some extent we successfully portrayed the coming of age genre.
Question 2 asked viewers if they enjoyed watching our film trailer and if it was made into a film would they go watch it. Just over 55% of viewers answered yes, this revealed some positive responses from our trailer. Around 35% of viewers answered maybe, this highlights that in some way the trailer did grab their attention and they would consider watching it. The final 10% answered no, we do not necessarily see this as a negative, as many genres and films do not please all types of viewers. This viewer may have been an older male or female who does not enjoy the coming of age genre.
Question 3 asked viewers if they thought our film trailer conformed or subverted character stereotypes. Just under 70% thought our characters conformed to stereotypes. This is positive feedback as we particularly focused on trying to make her characters relatable and generic to the coming of age genre. Out of the remaining 30%, 20% answered that they weren’t sure. This just highlights that they didn’t necessarily understand the context of the question.
Question 4 asked viewers if they thought our film trailer would attract our target audience of young teenagers/ adults, predominantly female. Just under 90% answered yes. This is significantly successful as it means that our trailer would appeal to who we would target to sell our film to if it was released in the cinema for example.
Question 5: How would you recommend we improve our film trailer?
From the responses that we got most of the feedback was constructive criticism. They gave us advice on how to improve which was exactly what we asked for. If we were to do this project again, or if we had time to adjust our final piece we would take all the ideas on board on how to improve. One issue we had with getting back feedback was that they were all anonymous so we couldn't approach people to elaborate on their answers.
Below are some of the feedback we received:
'Have a shorter opening section to allow more drama in the middle.'
'make the texting scenes more readable?'
'More catchy start, more colours, more text on screen, quicker flashes of brother, home, babysitter, mum etc with more precise speech around it to make it more snappy and focused to begin with.'
'The beginning sections when filming in the house maybe use alternative shots/ different lighting? This may give the trailer a more professional finish.'
'Do many different takes then when editing you can choose the best ones'
Question 6: Any other comments/ suggestions on our film trailer?
From analysing this response, again it was very positive feedback with a lot of responses being 'no'. Again we had some constructive criticism which can be seen below, this would help us improve if we had time to edit it. This, as a group, made us feel as if we'd done a good job on our editing and we are pleased with our final product.
Below are some of the feedback we received:
'No'
'Really enjoyed watching the film trailer. It was very gripping towards the end and particularly thought the voice over made the trailer successful.'
'It was excellent!'
'Really enjoyed watching. I particularly liked how you used a variety of settings and props.'
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