Final Blog Post

Name: Katie Maher

Candidate Number: 8149

Centre Number: 20299

Centre Name: Bishop Walsh Catholic School

Evaluation - Question 4

Evaluation - Question 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

I asked a range of people of ages and gender to watch my film trailer and look at both my film poster and magazine front cover and give their own opinion. I received all positive feedback off people when they had seen my trailer and other products, this is what they said: 

Improvements

Although the feedback I have received from people who have watched my trailer and seen my products is good, in the second class viewing of my trailer, I received constructive criticism in order to make some improvements.

My peers and class teacher watched my trailer and gave feedback of what I could do to improve. I was told that I should make my shots quicker so that there are more conventions of a trailer used and to build more tension. As well as this, I was told to include music in my trailer as I had not yet included this. 

As I received these improvements prior to finalising my trailer, I had enough time to complete them in order to make my trailer more effective.

In addition to this, within my research I found that Blumler and Katz stated in their 'Uses and Gratifications theory' that films are mostly watched by audiences to achieve entertainment, escapism, information, social interaction and to identify. I decided that to improve my trailer I would have to ensure that some of these areas are addressed. I did this by ensuring my trailer was entertaining and creates escapism through characterisation. This was confirmed through my audience feedback.

Evaluation - Question 2

Evaluation - Question 1

Final Film Magazine Cover

Final Film Poster