Audience Feedback

Michelle and I then revisited our storyline, after taking pictures for our storyboard. We realised that we could develop a better storyline to fit a theory on race. Using the theory and ethnicity, after reading ‘Abstract race and race theory’ by Howard Winant we found that during the 19^th century, different sociological perspectives have developed shifted and changed. We related this to our view on black youths- in the 21^stcentury; black youths are viewed as disruptive, aggressive, intimating and commonly materially and culturally deprived especially those who are from the working-class background. The Chicago sociologist department found that, neighbourhoods inflicts youth’s behaviour; they stated that criminal transmits their skills to young apprenticeships, although race is not really our main focus, we thought that we could refer to it during our film trailer.

WEBSITE: which was used for secondary research and theory  

{AUDIO TO BE INSERTED HERE!  DISCUSSION ABOUT STORYLINE}

[USE OF CAMERA FOR INTERVIEW TO INSERRT HERE]

We then decided to conduct a survey to gather people’s opinion on film trailers, Michelle and I, created a questionnaire using Microsoft Word our questions was based on public opinions on film trailers and how media represents working class and youths. We used quantitative and qualitative data; quantitative data was used for our statistical results, it is faster and more accurate for set results. We can conclude our findings faster and teenage crimes. My partner and I this is because it would be easier to convert into statistics to help us with the project.

This is my questionnaire that. We used a camcorder to interview members of our taget audience,  youths, working-class. The people asked, represents our mainstream audience which are students in urban areas and also middle-class area.

In the questionnaire we used closed questions, the respondent only required to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ however we did require that they also gave a reason, however some respondents did not have a reason for their answer.

  Below is a copy of our questionnaire, we asked this because, we wanted to take into conisderation the general public opinion on teaser trailers and what they portray.

Questionnaire for media

1.      Do you enjoy watching teenage films?

Yes                                          

No

2.      Do you think the working-class are portrayed negatively in films?

Yes

No

3.      Do you think there is a positive review on teenagers?

Yes

No

4.      Do you feel that film trailers make you want to watch the film?

Yes

No

5.      On average how often do you watch film trailers on your own accord?

(Independently not when there is an advert)

0-5

6-10

11-15

16-20

6.      Camera work, is the key feature in teaser trailers

Yes

No

7.      Please select your preferred film trailer

Donkey punch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6kxswnHn3c

Bullet Boy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9HmGBQ9LK8

Baby Boy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhe9MZi-lHk

Leon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns4vh_xAn98

Girl, interrupted http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQlftCpGzUg

 

	1	2	3	4	6
Yes	11	10	5	9	12
No	2	3	8	4	1

Question 5
0-5	10
6-10	2
11-15
16-20
Above 20	1

    

Question 7
Donkey Punch
Bullet Boy
Baby Boy
Leon
Girl, interrupted

1.       Do you enjoy watching teenage films?

2. Do you think the working-class are portrayed negatively in films?

3. Do you think there is a positive review on teenagers?

4.  Do you feel that film trailers make you want to watch the film?

5.  On average how often do you watch film trailers on your own accord?

 

6. Camera work is the key feature in film trailers, do you agree?

7.      Please select your preferred film trailer

We found that people were not very keen with film trailers as they were with watching the film. Apart from the film being promoted through advertisement on television, rarely did individuals take time out to research into the film. From the audience I noted that a trailer is a combination of sound, narration, lighting, camera shots and title graphics, all this is too lure and ‘seduce’ the audience to watch the film.  The sample of people selected to watch the teaser trailers often reacted to the lighting, atmosphere that is created and fast cuts that takes place.

We then exported our recorded interview to a format that would enable us to upload unto our blog. This is how we did this:

After editing the blooper scenes i then exported the clip, by going on file then export then video.

Seeing that the file is quite big i had to

Teaser trailer acts as a stimulation, like an advert is constructed to urge the audience to watch it, teaser trailer ensures that the target audience is passive, meaning that they can not make a decision based on the media text, instead they are made to believe a certain situation. For my teaser trailer I intend to make the audience passive, this is because want then to watch the film produced, we want them to understand the message that we are trying to convey as stated before I aimed to make the audience aware of cultural theory, the belief of working-class being violent or dangerous.

The trailer composition of the trailer is aimed to drive the audience to watch the film. In my planning I thought of lighting, cutting and music effects used in every teaser trailer. It is a convention that cannot be challenged; teaser trailer has a essential structure that needs to be followed by all media institution.

My partner and i then produced a more detailed plan, displaying the intended shots that we wanted to take, as shown above, we included how we were going to construct our teaser trailer-the components of title graphic, sfx, types of shots etc... although we had this in hand we knew that it would change because we hadn't researched into what makes a successful teaser trailer. However we thought that we would still stick with our a plan until we have properly researched into what we were going to do.