First Draft Feedback

As a way of improving our soap opera trailer, we allowed friends, family and students to watch the trailer and asked them to give us their opinion. The constructiv critisism allowed us to extend our knowledge on what a target adience expects from a soap. We recieved our feedback verbally, in writing and electronically.

The AS media class were asked to watch our trailer in class and respond to a set of ten yes or no questions provided. They were also doing a similar project to us, creating a film trailer and using the same skills, so their input would be very useful. The questions they were asked are as follows:

1. After watching the trailer, would you say the trailer is advertising the soap genre?

2. Would you watch the soap after watching the trailer?
3. Is the music appropriate?
4. Should there be text with the voice-over?
5. Is the trailer the right length?
6. Are there enough stereotypical characters?
7. Is there a variety of shot types?
8. Is there anything that could be improved?
9. What works well?
10. Is the editing appropriate?
There was some useful constructive critisim given in this situation, but a lot of the feedback was mostly positive. We understood this to mean that we had done a lot of things right, but that there were parts we could change or edit in order to make it look more professional and more appealing to our target audience.

Friends and family were an important audience to get feedback from because they could provide useful insight, as most of our friends were within the age brackets of our target audience. To recieved this feedback, we uploaded our trailer onto web 2.0 public sharing and messaging sites, such as facebook and youtube.