once we had made the changes suggested by the rest of our A-Level group, our work was shown to a group of year 11’s for further feedback. To gather this feedback, we created a questionnaire that would determnine the effectiveness of the trailer and tell us if people would be interested enough to watch. All the feedback we received from our A-Level group was to speed the whole thing up as it looked too slow. We were also told to re-film a section of the trailer to make it as good and effective as possible.
The questionnaire we created to gather this vital feedback consisted of four questions. Those were;
· Would you watch our soap?
· Do the stories used in our soap relate to you?
· Do you hink the editing was done effectively?
· Do the titles help split the scenes?
Each of the answers will be presented in the form of a chart as well as an overview in writing.
To begin the year 11’s were asked to give some general feedback. Most of it we received was stuff that we knew wouldn’t be good enough to use for our final, final piece.
For a start we was told that we couldn’t use the song we had searched for. We decided after so long of searching to use the opening to The Progidy’s ‘Firestarter’. As this is actually a copyrighted song we knew we wouldn’t be able to leave it in but decided to until we could find a better replacement. They also said that they didn’t recognise it as a soap but a drama. At the start of the trailer they wasn’t informed it was actually a soap but they had to guess for themselves.
Q1. Would you watch our soap?
The results for this really didn’t go the way we hoped. Only 1 of the 16 people availible to give us feedback said they would watch it. This feedback was however, really beneficial as they compared the trailer to drama’s such as ‘Skins’ which is aimed at the same target audience as ours. Having this information allowed us to continue with the progect in the same way we had be doing.
Q2. Do the stories used in our soap relate to you?
After some debating, 13 of the 16 year 11 students said that the stories we created for the use of the trailer would effect them. Knowing this pleased us as it meant that we were heading in the right direction and would have more chance of developing an audience.
Q3. Do you think the editing was completed successfully?
to answer this question we received quite a bit of feedback. As our soap was only in the draft stages when watched by the year 11's, we knew we needed to do some more work to it. however, having this feedback was very useful as it helped us determined what should be done to gain those extra viewers. One of the scenes that had the most attention paid to it was our drug one. We assumed this was because of how un-stereotypical it was in terms of appearance, mise-en-scene etc. the first piece of feedback we received was that the editing needed to be filtered. this was most evident during the 'Family Problems' scene midway through our soap.
As we didn't want diegetic sound, we wanted to express emotions through facial expressions. However, due to some poor filming by a stand-in camera man (Philip Gatward), this was not possible. Because of this we had to shorten the scene right down as the chance of re-filming had gone. We was also told that this could be sorted through switching the scenes about a bit to simply break the trailer up. During the trailer we also switched from our title music to The Prodigy's Firestarter. This was because we wanted to make an impact and felt it could best be done with a change of song to one with a higher tempo. Even though we couldn't.'t have the song and ws searching for a replacement, we was told that the two song didn't necessarily work.
We was given another piece of advice as a way to express the drug use which was to play with the colours e.g. black and white or psychedelic colours to emphasise the effects of the drugs and try to relate to the audience watching. Finally, we was reminded to add in the text on the title screen at the end of the trailer and also to add in the BBC One logo all throughout. As well as this we were told the voiceover needed to be re-done as it wasn't the bast quality due to the equipment used.
Q4. Do the titles help to split between the scenes?
13 of the 16 asked agreed that the title screens we used help to split the trailer and inform the audience of the stories involved.
Q3. Do you think the editing was completed successfully?
to answer this question we received quite a bit of feedback. As our soap was only in the draft stages when watched by the year 11's, we knew we needed to do some more work to it. however, having this feedback was very useful as it helped us determined what should be done to gain those extra viewers. One of the scenes that had the most attention paid to it was our drug one. We assumed this was because of how un-stereotypical it was in terms of appearance, mise-en-scene etc. the first piece of feedback we received was that the editing needed to be filtered. this was most evident during the 'Family Problems' scene midway through our soap.
As we didn't want diegetic sound, we wanted to express emotions through facial expressions. However, due to some poor filming by a stand-in camera man (Philip Gatward), this was not possible. Because of this we had to shorten the scene right down as the chance of re-filming had gone. We was also told that this could be sorted through switching the scenes about a bit to simply break the trailer up. During the trailer we also switched from our title music to The Prodigy's Firestarter. This was because we wanted to make an impact and felt it could best be done with a change of song to one with a higher tempo. Even though we couldn't.'t have the song and ws searching for a replacement, we was told that the two song didn't necessarily work.
We was given another piece of advice as a way to express the drug use which was to play with the colours e.g. black and white or psychedelic colours to emphasise the effects of the drugs and try to relate to the audience watching. Finally, we was reminded to add in the text on the title screen at the end of the trailer and also to add in the BBC One logo all throughout. As well as this we were told the voiceover needed to be re-done as it wasn't the bast quality due to the equipment used.
Q4. Do the titles help to split between the scenes?
13 of the 16 asked agreed that the title screens we used help to split the trailer and inform the audience of the stories involved.
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