Evaluation question 5

I do believe we meet our target audience. When we produced our film we used a young cast because we thought this would appeal to a younger audience (the replies to the first questionnaire showed that most people was between the ages of 11-20 so we aimed it towards 15-20 year olds), each character was dressed in a different style too, to appeal to a larger audience (each fitted into a cliché that made that cliché want to want the film). We made sure no scenes were too disturbing, (another reason it’s aimed at 15 and above).

We used a young person’s room, with a lot of posters. All the posters may have attracted an audience, because they shared the same taste of music. The bedroom wasn’t too feminine or masculine, so we didn’t aim it at one gender. Although we made the antagonist female because we knew our target audience was slightly more female than male, because of our questionnaire results.

I believe we managed to attract horror/suspense lovers, as our two minute introduction had some suspense and shocks in it.

Our camera angles were successful, and looked professional, except for two shots where heads were cut off (looking at the gift instead).  Good camera angles help the audience feel like they’re part of the film, and in the scene, poor camera angles make the audience more aware of the fact they’re just watching a film.
'Good, but in one shot the characters heads were cut off'
'I think you have used a variety of different shots to make it more interesting, especially when the boy goes up the stairs.'
'Nice camera work! Expertly done!'
'Good but sometimes their heads were cut-off.'

What do you think of the editing?

63% said 5/5 while 38% said 4/5.

What do you think of the lighting?

19% said 5/5, 56% said 4/5 and 25% said 3/5.

What do you think of the music choices?

56% said 5/5, 31% said 4/5 and 13% said 3/5.

I believe the editing was very successful, and the replies show this. I believe the music choices were fairly successful, but might not have been to some peoples taste. I believe the lighting was the least successful thing, and would need to be changed in the future.

Next time we could ensure the lighting is better in rooms, and light up the characters faces better, and send out questionnaire about what music they’d like to hear in horror films.