Evaluation Activity 4 & 5: Audience Feedback

Ready or Not evaluation tasks from hcbrgsmedia

In order to gain feedback from our audience we put together a questionnaire which we gave to a few people who watched out opening. Here are the questions asked:

1.      Gender:

2.      Age:

3.      What genres of film do you prefer?

4.      What genre do you think our film opening was?

5.      What gave you this impression?

6.      Could you give a brief overview of the storyline of what you’ve seen?

7.      If this was made into a full length film, would you watch it?

8.      What was best about it?

9.      What needed improving?

We gave our questionnaire to around 15 males and females between the ages of 14 and 18. One of the most popular film genres was horror, and other answers included thriller, comedy and sci-fi.

Everyone identified the opening as being either a horror or a thriller. There were a number of answers given as to why people thought this, including:

•  The background music and sound effects  
• The font of the titles
• The events occurring in the film such as things disappearing and the dark figure appearing (the people who said similar to this thought the film was horror rather than thriller)

When asked for a brief overview, everyone who filled out the questionnaire seemed to generally understand what was going on throughout the opening. There seemed to be a little confusion over the idea of the knives disappearing, and two people didn’t realise that it was the intruder’s phone ringing near the end and not Holly’s. Most people also presumed Holly was killed after she was dragged from under the bed, however we planned that later in the film it would turn out that she was just kidnapped. 

The majority of people said that if this was a full length film they would go and watch it, however there is a chance that there answers may have been slightly bias due to the fact that they we were there when they filled in the questionnaire and they wouldn’t want to offend us. We got 2 people who said they wouldn’t watch it, one of them was because they hated thriller/horror films. All of the people we asked were curious about what happens to Holly after she is dragged from under the bed. 

Some of the best parts of our film according to the people who watched it:

•        The suspense coming from all the creepy happenings 
•     The cliff hanger ending
•         There were lots of shots which made it look more professional and well thought out

And some areas they thought could have been improved:

•         The video quality
•         The background music
•      The lighting in some parts
•      Some parts of the story could have been made more obvious