Evaluation Question #5 - The Audience

How did you attract/address your audience?

When doing our preliminary task I learnt many things as I got more confident with final cut express this meant I knew where the techniques where that I wanted to use, this helped by cutting down on the time that we where trying to find the correct techniques on the program meaning we could spend more time on it. I also learnt how to import and export music and sounds from garage bang this help our final project as we needed to make music for it, therefore being able to create music fast and effectively what fit the scene and mood. Though this we were able to start research on our final project though a questionnaire asking questions that where possible for us to do.
We found out many things from our questionnaire such as:
· We did ten questionnaires and out of ten 8 where male and 2 where females
· Out of ten questionnaires 3 of then came back as to not like our idea of doing a wartime project this shows that the majority of people will like the idea.
· 3 out of ten people think we should not do the project in all black and white this is a good result as our project has already been planned as to be both in colour and black and white due to realistic features
· In the questionnaire 5 out of ten people said that they would like to see love and loss of people.
We tailored out film to make it what our audience wanted by looking at the percentages of what people wanted and if it was a big percentage then we put that idea in the film. Such as from the findings a big percentage or a majority wanted it in part black and white or all black and white so we put half the footage in black and white. Half of the questionnaires also wanted love influenced in out film so we have made the film based on love and loss.
We have made our genre clear in the opening by including a black and white hue or colour correction over half of the footage this helps to give the audience the idea that the film is based when colour filming was not around, also we have made the props old looking so that the characters are wearing cloths that would be found in the war times.
In our opening sequence we have made it so the audience carried on watching by putting music that attracts people and kept a lot of lose ends open. Such as in the start you see a photo album. We left the question open as why is there one there and whose in it.
We asked people to watch our film to see what that thought of it most of our comments where positive about the editing and filming however we did have some negative so we tried to sort them things out to make it the best possible video.

By Daniel Fanthome