Audience Feedback Questionnaire Analysis

These are the results and feedback that we received from 20 people about our trailer from the questionnaires we handed out.

1.       The graph shows that the most popular answer, surprisingly was the Variation of shots followed by the narrative as the second most popular answer. This was a surprise to us as we expected the narrative to be the top answer because it is our unique selling point (USP).

The results conveys the point that our variation of shots was an element that our group worked well on, even in the continuity in editing, which is important to show that our trailer  is of good standard.

2. As the pie chart shows, the majority of the audience we asked thought that the non-diegetic sound used in our trailer matched the action on screen. However, only a small few considered that the sound that didn’t sit well with the action on screen.

3.  From the graph above, all of the audience agreed that they could clearly see the effects of the drug taking by the main character Nicole, with various shots used in our trailer conveying the effects the drug has on her.

4.  From the options of the different biopic movies listed above, the most frequent answer of what film does our trailer remind the audience of is Nil by Mouth as it portrays biopic elements with a string narrative but more notably a common ground with our trailer as it shows the effects of drug abuse.

5. The graph portrays that the audience agreed unanimously that our biopic trailer conveyed codes & conventions that are usually found in a biopic for e.g a strong narrative,   sad incidental music to reflect the mood of the character as well extreme close-ups of character’s face which are elements that visible in our teaser trailer.

 

6.  What was bad about our teaser trailer? (Open Question)

The negative points that we received about our teaser trailer was that they would have liked to have seen more on how the main character ended up as a drug addict which is a fair point raised by members of the audience, but however must remember that this is a tease trailer.

7. What could we do to improve our teaser trailer? (Open Question)

The main point that was frequently put forward to the group was by having a wider variation of camera angles as well as more explanation on the story how the main character, Nicole, started to become an addict.

Also, many mentioned that a good idea would be for the narrative to show how nicole obtained the drugs i.e. by drug dealers.

Others points put forward were that whilst the main character was walking on the pavement towards, it could have been screened in black& white & show it as a flashback.

A few enthusiastic people commented in our questionnaire by saying they thought there wasn’t anything bad in our trailer and there was nothing to improve on it!

8.  As you can see from our graph, there was an overwhelming majority in people who would want to watch the whole film having seen our teaser trailer.

They thought that the trailer appealed to them to follow-up their interest in the film so they may know what will eventually happen to the main character because they thought the narrative was intriguing &attention- grabbing, which are the given reasons why they would want to watch the whole film.

The people that said they wouldn’t be interested in watching the film gave reasons such as the genre of the film is not their type i.e. Heroine being a biographical film, although they thought that the trailer was of good standard.

By Mohamed Al-Mousawi