There were two main methods which we used to obtain our audience feedback, one through Facebook, and the other through questionnaires that we handed out to people. However what was key about both of these is that we provided pre and post production questionnaires to compare the feedback that we received and see if what we made was what people actually wanted.
In the original questionnaire process we had 6 main questions that we asked to gain the best feedback that we needed. We based these questions on a number of variables. These variables were designed at our specific audience; because we were asking the majority of our questions to people who were at our school our general age base was between 16-18 years of age, this therefore simplifies the situation for us, the most quantifying we had to do was the sex of the participants.
To begin with Facebook, we ran links through all of our statuses on Facebook asking people if they wouldn’t mind filling in a online questionnaire that we had made. This was easy for us to analyse because we could digitally see the results and did not have to quantify them ourselves, whereas the questionnaires that we handed out, we had to quantify ourselves which was time consuming, and not what we wanted when we had so much cutting to do.
Names | Comments | Out of 10 |
Amber Olley | Very good film with fast and exciting shots. The lighting was interesting as it gave a sense of reality. | 8 / 10 |
Kate Sophoclides | I liked the film. The narrative was easy to follow yet I like the way there were flash backs to represent the time passed. | 9 / 10 |
Jonathon Shell | The film was exciting and easy to understand. | 9 / 10 |
Having said this, by handing out questionnaires before our production started it really did help. They showed that people had mainly watched both actions and thrillers. We had only one person who said that they hadn’t seen both, but the majority said that they had enjoyed action more than thrillers. However even having this feedback and deciding that we wanted to make an action films, there were large drawbacks, not only budget, seeing as we didn’t have one and most action films require lots of special affects which are expensive, but also the basic filming equipment, which during filming showed a good picture, but once uploaded to Google lost all of its quality. Not only this, if we decided that we did want to make a stunt ourselves, not only would we be hampered by a budget, but also health and safety would not allow through the risk assessment that we had to follow.
The information that we gathered was helpfull because it pointed us into the right direction to make something that people actually wanted to see, and not over complicate things like we almost did from the start. on originally embarking on doing this we had many elaborate ideas of making drug baron films and things that we would have been unable to pull off, however through analysing our research we were able to make something look the best we could possibly make it without OVER complicating things, as our film is still rather complicated for some people to follow.
Although the post production questionnaire could be seen as less helpful, it was more satisfying than helpful, because we could see what people thought of our film that we had spent hours and hours filming and cutting. This was mainly because it was just when we showed it to friends and family. However the Facebook side was far more analytical. We sent the same questionnaire around afterwards with an additional link to our film, and left space at the bottom of the questionnaire to see how people would rate and genre our film to see what they thought it was, and whether they enjoyed it. We could then compare this against the original data. However, a problem that we noticed by the end is that numerous people classified our film as a thriller, whereas it is meant to be an action film, with thrilling parts in it. So in this case it showed that some of the information we gathered in the original pre production questionnaires, may have actually lead us in the wrong direction
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