AUDIENCE FEEDBACK-

SHORT FILM
To gain audience feedback from our short film, we
devised a questionnaire and asked 15 people to
view the short film at the same time. There were 6
questions to the questionnaire, which included
such things as asking what genre fits best to the
film, and if our short film was successful enough,
the target audience would successfully identify it
as a rom com. Further questions were added in
addition to see what needed to be improved or
changed and what worked well, which would help
us in our evaluation.
 This is the
questionnaire
we gave our
target
audience aged
16-26
 1. WAS THE MEANING MADE
CLEAR THROUGHOUT THE FILM?
DID YOU UNDERSTAND IT
FULLY?
 THIS SHOWS THAT THE PLOT
WAS CLEAR TO UNDERSTAND,
THEREFORE OUR TARGET
AUDIENCE COULD APPRECIATE
THE SHORT FILM, MAKING IT
SUCCESSFUL
 2. WHICH GENRE
BEST FITS THE FILM?
FROM OUR QUESTIONNAIRE IT IS CLEAR
THAT THE MAJORITY OF PARTICIPANTS
BELIEVED IT TO BE A ROM COM, WITH
THE COMEDY GENRE IN SECOND PLACE.
OUR IDEA WAS FOR A ROM COM BUT
MORE HEAVILY BASED ON THE COMEDY
SIDE, WHICH SHOWS THAT WE WERE
SUCCESSFUL IN CONVEYING THE RIGHT
GENRE. THE OTHER GENRES SELECTED
WERE A MIXTURE OF EITHER ROMANTIC
DRAMA OR DOCUMENTARY-COMEDY, IN A
WAY THE SHORT FILM FITS ALL
CATEGORIES.
 3. WAS THE CAMERA WORK,
STYLE AND EDITING SUITABLE
FOR THIS FILM GENRE?
100% said yes. Specific feed back was;
“The shots of him looking at the camera was
effective.”
“Interview scene was effective, very catchy”
“subtle editing, liked the labels underneath the
photos”
“smooth editing”
“subtleness of the waitress in the background of
each date”
4. HAVE YOU SEEN ANY OTHER
FILMS OF A SIMILAR GENRE?

“not really, no, good idea!”

“yes, but not a lot which good”
There were a mixture of answers to this question,
but the fact people said it was innovative, makes
our film effective as its not a common type of
media short.
5. WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE THE
FILMS STRENGTHS?
6. WHAT COULD BE IMPROVED?
FROM OUR AUDIENCE RESEARCH IT IS
CLEAR THAT WE HAVE DONE A GOOD
FIRST ATTEMPT OF OUR SHORT FILM,
AS THE GENRE IS CLEAR, THE PLOT IS
EASY TO UNDERSTAND AND THERE
HAVE BEEN A LOT OF POSITIVE
COMMENTS TO ADD. HOWEVER TO
IMPROVE IN THE AREAS SUGGESTED,
WE WILL GO BACK TO OUR FILM AND
SORT OUT THE SOUND LEVELS AND
SMOOTH THE EDITING SO THAT THE
FILM ANSWERS THE CRITICISMS OF
THE TARGET AUDIENCE. FOLLOWING
THIS OUR FILM SHOULD BE FINISHED.