In order to find out what people thought of my film, poster and magazine I decided to ask them all some questions, in the hope I could find out what I should improve/change if I were to ever do this again.
film feedback
From the questions I asked people about my film I managed to find a lot out. One of the main things people said they liked was the hologram effect I used for the butler. They said it made it obvious it was futuristic and also made it much more scary, as its something not usually experienced. I also found out that people liked the idea of the story line, and said its unique with lots of suspense. however along with my feedback I also found many things which I could have improved. One thing mentioned multiple times was the smoke at the end of the film, it appears to come from no where and is also very thick on the screen, meaning you do struggle to see what is happening. My problem when making this was that i'm not very experienced on adobe after effects so editing was difficult, however if I were to do this again I would definitely spend more time finding out how to do things properly, so it gives it a more professional look. another thing which was mentioned multiple times was the tripod left in some of the footage, when filming I didn't see this and didn't have many takes at all, meaning once it came to editing it made it difficult to disguise this.
I asked a total of 37 people this set of questions, and for my final question 'would you recommend this to friends?' I got a total of 20 people saying yes, and 17 saying no. I can't say I am pleased with this response as obviously i'd always like it to be higher. However as it is the first short film I've made I think it is an okay response. I know now what I could do better so hopefully I could improve this next time.
magazine feedback
Once again from doing this research I found out lots of interesting things. Some improvements which were mentioned included, adding page numbers, the name of the magazine, the colour combination and also adding more text, there were a few more but I believe these were the ones people thought were most important. All of these are very small improvements which wouldn't take me too much time to do and from the sounds of it doing these would improve it massively, which definitely gives me things to do next time I do it. Some things which people suggested they liked included the idea of a short piece of text about each of the main actors and also the verdict section in it.
For this questionnaire I got a total of 27 people to answer it, and for the final question of 'Does this make you want to go and see the film?' 15 of the 27 people said yes. This is a very pleasing result that's over half the amount says they would like to see it and for my first film I think that that is a fairly good result, one I am pleased with.
Poster Feedback
My poster was the first poster I have ever made, I made this on Adobe photoshop, something which I am not very common with. However despite this I showed people my poster and asked everyone to give me their feedback. One thing a lot of people said they liked was the smoke effect over the text, due to the film being called 'Gas man' I decided to make the writing look like gas, which people seemed to like. One other thing people said they liked was how the evil Arb was much bigger than the two robbers, because he is the dominant one in the film. however there were also things which people didn't like so much, for example the fact there isn't a release date, no actors names, not many reviews and the fact it was a little bit plain. I agree with all of these things, and think that they should definitely be added to future posters.
For the last question 'does this poster make you want to go and see the film?' I asked 20 people and 13 people said yes, which once again is just over half, which a result for me is one I am very pleased with.
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