Collecting Feedback

I have just tweeted my survey and teaser trailer on my Twitter account, as you can see I have 557 followers, who are mostly within my target audience as they are nearly all teenagers.

I know not everyone will take the time to give me audience feedback, but I am hopeful that I will receive a number of responses.

The Dissenters Teaser Trailer Second Draft

Feel free to complete my survey for feedback:

Create your own user feedback survey

Adding Foley Sound

I recorded foley sounds of myself running in my back garden to add in to replace the original footsteps sound as it was too windy; the problem could not be fixed with editing the audio on Final Cut Pro as seen in this blogpost.

I copy and pasted the best part of the running to signify the urgency, especially as there is a group of characters running.

Here is the original sound:

Attempting to reduce wind sound

This failed.

After looking at tutorials and other students' work, I discovered that the sound of wind can be reduced in audio files. However, the sound of the wind was still audible in the clip, so much so that it was distracting when it occurred. It is now urgent that I use foley sounds to replicate the sound, with no wind.

Title Screen

The title of my film and some credits need to be added in my trailer. To do this I shall add the title design from my poster for continuity across my media products.

This is what it looks like, I am testing it in my film to see if it would be better for it all to fade together, or for the credits to fade in and out, this can be done by adding the text separately.

Focus Group Audience Feedback

After showing the initial Teaser Trailer in front of a small focus group, I have received some improvements:

• The fight scene acting is fairly poor because the actors are smiling and are too happy
• The wind is loud when filming outside
• The characters' names should be added
• Credits at the end of the film

To overcome the problems I shall cut the fight scene to minimise it, I can reduce the audio in the windy scene, but I need the amplified sound of footsteps; I may have to foley the footstep sound and add that later. In the close up of each character, the names can be added during the close up scenes at the end of the teaser trailer. The credits from the film poster can be added to the teaser trailer.

Young Chamber-Creative Careers Event

Last night my media poster was displayed in Young Chamber's Creative Careers Event, the second poster on the board.

This was displayed in front of over 100 members of the public, including a variety of children and adults.

The event has allowed me to receive a large amount of feedback about the poster to determine whether it works or not from different demographics.