What have you learned from your audience feedback?

What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

Throughout the process of constructing my soap opera trailer i have created several different drafts; this gave me the opportunity to receive audience feedback for my media product. I created a questionnaire that was filled out by other a-level media students as well as uploading my soap opera trailer onto social networking site Facebook. This allowed people to watch my trailer and give me feedback and opinions, and from here i was able to analysis what i could do to improve my media product. 

I found from my feedback from Facebook that:

*my trailer fitted in with the soap genre

*It was exciting and was targeted at my demographic


However, some one stated that my trailer finished and there was still 4 minutes of blank footage. Therefore, i went back to my soap trailer on Final Cut Pro X and adjusted this problem so that it stops when my soap opera trailer is finished.

I found from my results from the questionnaire that:

*my music worked well with my trailer and suited the soap opera genre

*my transitions worked well to create a fast paced effect

*my editing was appropriate to my soap opera trailer

*i had used conventional soap opera characters

*i had included a variety of camera shots 

However, some of my feedback suggested that my trailer was too long and should be shortened down, i needed to make the story-line a bit clearer and i needed to turn up the volume of the voice-overs as they were very quiet. 


These were a few adjustments and changes after i had received feedback from my questionnaire: 


*I cut my soap trailer from 1 min 41 secs to 1 min which improved the pace of the trailer to make it more exciting and fast so that it appealed to my target audience. 
*I went back to my trailer on Final Cut Pro X and turned down the volume of the music and turned up the volume of my voice-overs so that they could be heard more clearly. 

I went back to my editing programme Final Cut Pro X and decided to add text to my soap opera trailer in order to make the story-line more clear. This screenshot shows a pregnant girl who is worrying about her unborn child. I added the words 'new choices' which connotes that she has a decision to either keep the baby or abort it; I feel that the text i added to my trailer makes the story-line a lot more clearer so that the audience understand exactly what is going on. Furthermore, the audience will therefore perhaps be able to relate to the character through the uses and gratifications theory as they may have gone through it them self therefore creating a sense of realism throughout my trailer.I chose to put the word 'new' with each of my text as i believe it promotes that the soap is new and coming soon. 

I looked back through my trailer and realised i was not promoting what channel my soap was going to be broadcasted on very well. Therefore, i decided that i would introduce my soap opera trailer with the channel logo 'BBC' at the bottom. This helps create continuity throughout my soap opera trailer as well as give the audience awareness of what channel my soap opera was going to be broadcast on.