Audience Feedback

I had created a questionnaire on microsoft word and gave it out to my friends to complete regarding my horror trailer. The answers to the questions which they had given are shown below. Five students had taken part in this questionnaire.

1) What gender are you? Male: 4 Female: 1

2) Do you enjoy watching horror movies? Yes: 3 No: 2

3) Does the horror trailer give away too much? Yes: 1 No: 4

4) Does the horror trailer give you an insight as to what the film could be about or include?
Yes: 5 No: 0

5) Does the horror trailer make you want to go and watch the film? Yes: 3 No: 2

6) Do you think that the horror trailer was effective? Yes: 3 No: 2

7) What did you think was effective or good about the horror trailer?

Answer One: Gave the outline of the story but did not give away too much.
Answer Two: There was a variety of different shot types and camera angles.
Answer Three: The music and sounds.
Answer Four: The rapid change of scenes.
Answer Five: There was just enough included in the horror trailer and it didn't give away too much.

8) If you think something in the horror trailer could be improved, what would it be?

Answer One: The quality of the sound could be improved to be more clear.
Answer Two: The quality of the sound.
Answer Three: Less use of text on screen
Answer Four: The acting could be improved.
Answer Five: Better lighting could be used in the trailer. It was too dark at too many times.


Audience Feedback Evaluation
From the answers I received, I gathered that people didn't think the horror trailer gave too much away but still let them know what the film is about or what it includes, which is the initial idea of a horror trailer. I do think that in this sense, my group's horror trailer was definately successful. Three out of five students said they would go to watch the film which suggests that some improvements could be made to grasp the rest of the target audience. Improvements were suggested, such as "improve the sound quality" and for there to be "more use of lghting as the majority of the horror trailer was quite dark". Despite this, three out of five students still believed the horror trailer was effective. However, this statistic does tell me that the horror trailer didn't give the excitement or thrill that it should do, otherwise that statistic should be higher if it did.

Students generally beleived that the horror trailer was good and effective according to question 7 on the questionnaire. The most common answer was that "the horror trailer gave away just the right amount which is neither too much nor too less". By those who like to watch horror films, they said they would go to watch this film as the trailer generally inticed them and gave away just the right amount for them wanting to see more.