Welcome to our blog. Here, you will be able to follow the progress we have made on our A2 media coursework. We are creating a teaser trailer for a romantic comedy and this has involved a lot of planning, production and evaluation which can all be viewed here.

Friday 8 April 2011

Sam's Evaluation - Question 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?


Initially, after research into the codes and conventions of film posters in our chosen genre we created a set of 12 images that could be used as our posters. While they were all aesthetically good, we couldn’t choose between them so handed out a questionnaire to other students to see which they thought was best.

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It helped us decide which image was right to promote our film, alongside the trailer and magazine cover.

We also received some audience feedback on Youtube about our trailer.

The feedback regarding the soundtrack was helpful as it shows our trailer is easily recognisable as a romantic comedy which will help draw in audiences, as they can decide instantly whether they want to see the film or not. The comments that the plot is easily understood are helpful too as it shows our title screens were effective in helping piece together the story.

Thursday 7 April 2011

Sophie's Evaluation - Question 4

Sophie's Evaluation - Question 3

“What have you learned from your audience feedback?”

We firstly received audience feedback about our poster. I sent out a class questionnaire asking which background image best goes with the theme and style of our poster and trailer. This was useful because it helped me to decide which image to use as they were all acceptable, just picking the best one was difficult. It also allowed me to see which one looks the most professional and so which one would help to sell the film more.

I also received audience feedback on the trailer itself, through comments people left on YouTube. They thought that the music is catchy and really suits the storyline and that all features of the trailer work well together to make the genre automatically identifiable. It is important to me that the music works well with the trailer because if it is catchy then it will stay in people’s heads and it also helps to tell the story, which some of the scenes and title screens may have left out. I am also pleased that people thought the genre was identifiable because this means people will be able to instantaneously decide whether they may be interested in seeing the film at all based on whether they like rom-coms.

Sophie's Evaluation - Question 2