Audience Feedback

We had a viewing of our teaser trailer to a range of 16-18 year olds and created a questionnaire in order to get feedback from our target audience.
The questionnaire consisted of these questions:

1. What genre do you think it is?
2. Have we portrayed this genre well?
3. After watching the trailer do you understand the title?
4. What part was most effective?
5. Do you think the music was appropriate?
6. Are there any parts you didn't understand? If so what?

We were very pleased with the feedback we recieved as it was mostly extremly positive

We originally had the definition of coulrophobia in our trailer however took it out as it didn't fit well with the rest of the trailer, we were therefore pleased to see that there were enough hints in the trailer to show that the title 'Coulrophobia' means the fear of clowns.


Other feedback we got was that we portrayed the genre well through the lighting and costume and also through the music and sound. People also thought the music was very fitting and said 'It emphasised the fear and urgency'

We were pleased to see that the close up shot of the clown at the end of the trailer made a lot of people jump, and on the feedback questionnaires many people put that this part was the most effective. 

Some feedback we got was that the parts we didn't film seemed random, and therefore we are going to further edit this montage of YouTube clips in order to show more clearly how they represent the back story of the clown showing he is disconnected from society and therefore explaining why he is killing the girls.
 

Audience feedback of first draft

In order to see what to improve in our teaser trailer we asked our target audience some questions about what they liked and what could be improved, and here's what they said...

We have taken this audience feedback into account and her is what we plan to do:

• Cut up the party footage at the beginning to make it look more like a trailer
• Add some background into the clown and characters to make the storyline clearer
• Research into fonts to use
• Add more scary/ gore aspects 

 

Feedback #1

This is the feedback that we have got from our teachers:

• Limit party footage at beginning - avoid it looking too much like a scene. Footage is good but needs intercutting
• Introduce the 'legend' of the clown. Give background - perhaps flashback scene of children's party
• Hand picking up mask to put on? Perspective shot of clown?
• Shots of clown spotted by characters in discordant places (party scene lessens impact). Think 'It'
• More anchorage needed to set up the story
• Festival title is blurry
• Production title?