Evaluation question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?
Questions for our audience.
 If given the chance would you like to see more of the film? 
Is there anything you think would improve the film? 
Is there anything you find confusing? 
Was there anything you didn't like or found distasteful? 
Do you relate to the film?
Do you think it fits with the conventions of a Gothic horror film? 
Did the poster attract you to see the film? 
What did you think of the colour scheme and the music?

This is a video showing the opinions about what the audience thought about our main task. In this video there things such as what we can do to improve our movie and what was good and bad about it.

The feedback we got from our target audience has made us realise what we could have done better, what we need to do in the future and how we can work better at creating films.  With this feedback, I know what we could have done better in the film and how we can improve our technological skills in the future. Our interviews could have been a bit longer but  we didn't have enough time to conduct the interviews quicker.

Answers from our audience.
The audience said that they would like to see the film because they wanted to know more about what happened and also because it seemed really interesting. One of our audience said that they liked the shot where the protagonist was in a coffin. This was a bird's eye view.This shot was really hard to get right because the lighting wasn't exactly that great and also the fact that we did the shot in a cupboard which was much harder. This shot is very interesting because it gives the audience a sense of wonder as to what is going to happen to the protagonist or whether she'll be rescued. We could have made it better especially with the lighting but i feel that we managed to pull it off in the end. 
One person said that one way we could have improved our film was if we had a bit more shrieking. Another said that we could have made our title more clearer because she couldn't see it. We had done that at the start but then it just didn't match so we cut it out. We do however agree because it would have made the title clearer and better. One of the people said we should have improved the second credits in the film because it didn't flow with the film. One person said that it fit well with the convention of Gothic Horror because of the props we used and also the colour we used(black and white). One person said she related to our film because the protagonist was a normal typical teenager. We made we used a teenager because we wanted our audience to relate to her.

Most film posters depict the faces of the actors or characters who play a prominent role in the film. However, we decided that was to typical and instead used a simple headstone in a graveyard. We thought that this would leave the audience more interested and wouldn't give away too much of the plot itself. It does however indicate, even if only subtly, the genre of the film. On this poster, we decided to use fake names instead of our real ones. We used the black and white colours to reflect what how our movie is actually going to look like before our audience sees it. We out the posters around half of the school for display, including the main common room and the canteen. This was to attract different people from our year group to come and watch it.   Personally I had wanted to use an image of the protagonist and the antagonist but then I thought about it in detail and decided with the group that using the headstone is much better and has a better Gothic feel to it than it would have had if we had used the image of the protagonist and antagonist.

This was one of our inspirations for our film poster, they also use a headstone which could show that someone probably dies, because headstones in most cases depict death. The film is about a woman lurking in the shadows and anyone who sees her dies. This is kind of similar to our film because there is a stranger who is lurking in the shadows(not necessarily) but he is still stalking the protagonist and then she gets buried alive.