Evaluation!

Results of Audience Comments

After viewing and analysing our video, we can understand that there are differences and similarities from the participants results. Firstly, from the montage, there is a series of facial expressions that contrast from confused to amused, but this doesn't give any definite qualitative answers. Therefore, we chose to ask five questions on top of simply videoing the sample group, as well as recording their results.

Here, I will divide the five questions we asked, as well as the participants different answers - with analysing their responses.

QUESTION 1: 'How much did this video entertain you out of ten?'

Participant 1 (jenna): 'About 9'
Participant 2 (lucy): 'I'd say a 9'
Participant 3 (mollie): 'Quite a lot, I'd give a 9'
Participant 4 (ian): '7'
Participant 5 (katie): '10'

Overall, the feedback from this question was very positive, with high results over the middle barrier of five out of ten. The median answer was 9, making our results almost 100% which therefore makes our video very watchable. All of our participants are very enthusiastic with their results, and appear genuine - as one can view upon the feedback video.
Moreover, our aim was the make our video entertaining - and we have achieved this.

QUESTION 2: 'What was your favourite scene?'

Participant 2: 'I like the use of the red hood'
Participant 3: 'I thought it was a santa hood, when the girl appeared'
Particpant 1: 'The bit with the girl in the hood'
Participant 5: 'The part where Emma stood there with the hood and it flashed'
Participant 4: 'The bit where it cuts to the girl in the hood, in loads of different random locations'

The most frequent answer refers back to the character with 'the hood', described as both 'red' and 'santa'-like. The participants seem to recognise the change of locations relating to the change of character, as well as the symbolism of her through the red iconic hood - making this a possible useage of iconography for this piece. They seem to refer to the use of edits, too, with the use of 'cuts' referring to this change, also highlighting change within our footage.

QUESTION3: 'What genre do you think this falls under?'

Participant 3: 'Weird'
Participant 1: 'Thriller'
Participant 4: 'Horror or spooky'
Participant 5: 'Horror'
Participant 2: 'Horror/thriller?'

The most common answer is of 'horror'. Overall, most of our participants presumably found our piece quite uncomfortable and creepy to watch, due to choosing this genre option. The clips, from their reactions in the video, correlate the 'spooky' and 'weird' responses, as they obviously find our film a scary piece. Only 'participant 2' refers to the thriller genre, which was our main aim, as through our research we believed our media piece would fit inside the psychological thriller genre best. However, as this genre has both 'horror' and 'thriller' conventions, we could view this part of audience research successful.

QUESTION 4: 'Do you think this music matches the footage?'

Participant 2: 'Um, yes'
Participant 4: 'Erm...yeah!'
Participant 1: 'Yes'
Participant 5: 'Oh yeah, very good choice'
Participant 3: 'Yes'

We are overall successful in this part of audience research. We aimed for our narration and range of music selections to correspond and parallel successfully alongside our imagery, which all of our participants positively agree to.

QUESTION 5: 'Would you watch this film?'

Participant 4: 'Probably now I've seen it, yeah'
Participant 5: 'Yeah, definantly!'
Participant 3: 'I would'
Participant 2: 'Yes'
Participant 1: 'Yes'

The main financial outcome of producing a film is luring in an audience, in order to consume revenue in order to make a profit. Moreover, if we were to produce our piece as a actual motion picture, from this short selection of the opening of 'Rouge', this niche audience agrees that they would like to watch the film. Although only five participants were asked, those asked range within our target demographics, therefore adding to a starting success to a successful movie.

Audience feedback from our film

This clip below underlines some feedback from our video. We asked a series of participants ranging from 17-19 years old to view our video, going on to ask 5 of them 5 questions. We did this in order to recieve an outcome from our video, in order to understand what a niche audience's thoughts upon our footage were. On top of this, reasons for the age range were due to our targeted demographics: 16-24 years olds, making the age group we asked of approximatley the middle of that range.
Below is the video, representing two montages of the participants facial expressions to show a series of reactions, alongside the questions asked and their responses clearly divided up, in order to be easily presentable and viewable:

Outtakes

This short video is a piece that we put together to represent the footage that we did not put onto our video. It shows that we filmed a series of shots to experiment through our production, rather than the ones alone that were placed into our finale piece. Although we used more shots than these, the shots below feature a range of ones that almost made it into the film, as well as 'out takes' where we made mistakes through filming. We made this film mainly for a mixture of entertainment, but to highlight us experimenting through our picture.

Our video

This is our finale video. We have finally completed it after our initial ideas, lengthy planning, shooting schedules and storyboards. We are both feeling positive about our work, as it converges with both our original and progressed ideas, as well as enjoying the production and editing of our piece. Overall, our video 'Rouge' has fufilled our expectations.

Editing our production logo

After completing our final ideas of our production logo, we have made a small video that shows it

This represents the opening of our entire footage. It shows our production logo of 'Magnified Productions', converging with a quick beat that we found on www.freesound.org that both match each other well. This follows alongside other production logo and distributors, where the main logo is represented with a jingle. Although sometimes silent to highlight the image alone, a tune is usually used to alert the viewer to pay attention to this part of the credits. We also decided to use a cross fade edit to black afterwards within this short opening, as this takes the attention from reality of production and the financial sideo of film, to absorbing the viewer within the actual film itself.

Although this part of the titles may not appear important, I have learnt throguh my media studies that it is in fact a large part of the production of the film, and overall the film can not even be produced if it does not have backing budget and commercialism - unless the director and those working behind the piece are to produce money for their picure themselves.

However, I feel opening our film with alongside this typical convention is important as if we were to both promote and produce 'Rouge', we would need support and 'Magnified Productions' would be key for our behind the scenes.

This week

Throughout this week, me and Jess have uploaded our video onto the Mac computers and have continued to edit our piece throughout our Media lessons. So far, it is going successfully and the sounds and images from our original ideas are idealistic, therefore showing our plans are running smoothly. We are previously experimenting with different colours to make our video appear more alarming to the audience, converging with the unusual storyline and bizarre sounds we have also used.