What have you learned from your audience feedback?

What Have You Learned From Your Audience Feedback?

Farhana Noor 5621

Survey Monkey Survey Monkey is a website which allows you to create questionnaires

and surveys and also turns them into graphs/charts when you have got your result or ended your questionnaire.

Survey Monkey is very easy to use and allows you to create many

different types of questions, it can be YES/NO answers, multiple choice, comment boxes ect.

This is a great way to find out what your audience want to see, it has

been very helpful as it allows us to ask the audience about some of the ideas we have and whether they like it or not which helps us improve our existing story. It has also allowed us to find out what the audience look for in a Horror film which was very useful to us when improving our film.

We asked our audience what they would want in a horror film, most of the feedback was to see jumpy scenes. As our film is a horror film we wanted to ensure that there where a few jumpy scenes. This helps create a eerie and spooky atmosphere which is essential in a horror film.

We found out that most of our audience wanted to see a psychotic or an unsuspected person as a villain. The feedback we got from this question was very helpful in the planning stage, as we were not sure about what type of villain to have and whether they should be revealed.

We had decided that we did not want to show the face of the villain as it would be more scary to keep it unknown to the audience, although we do have a scene where there was a girl that would make the audience jump, or get them scared.

From this response I have learnt that the audience like the typical locations for a horror film, there wasn’t one that really stood out. In our film the two main locations are in a school and a graveyard. Although the school location had received less votes we had still used it as our location as it was a very important part of our film as it is bout a teacher. However, the school that we had used was very dark and had a ‘scary building’ feel.

Most of our audience wanted a female as the main character, in a horror film it is usually a female as the lead role/victim, this response had helped us decide for the main character to be a male. This is because we wanted it to be more of a surprise to our audience, we did not want to do everything that they would expect in a horror film.

Most of the responses was for the character to be aged between 15-20, again it is normal to see the characters to be in this age range in horror films. In our film as there is only one main character he is not in this age range, we wanted him to be much older as it is less expected for him to be the victim in the film.

In these two questions the answer with the most votes was for characters to die and there to be silence.

I our film no characters die, as our film ends on a cliff hanger we wanted the audience to decide or assume what they thought would have happened to the character.

Throughout our film we have a lot of silence, from the response to this question it is obvious silence is an essential part in horror films.

Over half of the total amount of people that had done our questionnaire had wanted the film to end in a mystery.

Our film ends with a cliff hanger as well a mystery, as it is unknown what actually happened to Mr Smith. This is response had helped us during our planning stage as we knew that most of the audience wanted it to end mysterious and we wanted to make sure that we had followed through.

Again, over half of the total amount of people that had done our questionnaire wanted the film to be set in the night, we had decided to keep our film looking dark although we did have scenes which were in daylight.

For a horror film it is important to create that spooky atmosphere, and our location had really worked well when it was darker.

Overall, I have learnt that the responses we got from the questionnaires where very typical features you would find in a horror film.

As a group we wanted to make sure that our film had those essential features of a film but also do things that would surprise our audience, and some aspects of it to be different from other horror films.