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.