Evaluation - Question 2

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

To answer this question I conducted a questionnaire, consisting of 10 questions, which I handed out to a group of people varying in age and gender, below are a some examples of filled in questionnaires:-

After reading all the questionnaires I then converted the answers into pie charts:-

Question 1

The majority of the people I questioned fully understood the storyline and correctly explained what it entailed, the people who answered 'No' were confused as to what the antagonist was, whether it was supernatural, alien, or human.

Question 2

 Almost every person I asked said that they would watch the full length feature due to their curiosity as to who or what was killing the characters and wanting to know whether anyone survived, the people who answered 'no' stated that they simply didn't like the horror genre.

Question 3

More than half of the people I asked said that they believed the trailer was aimed at them due to the characters being the same age and gender and the fact they liked the horror genre, others disagreed, saying that it was either because there were no male actors or actors of their own age.

Question 4

Everyone I asked agreed that the trailer was appropriate to its genre, saying that the scenes within the trailer were scary and disturbing enough to conform to the horror genre.

Question 5

Less than half the people I asked agreed with the age classification, with some saying that even people at the age of 12 would be able to handle the content, these people were mainly under the age of 16. The majority of the people I asked disagreed with the classification, saying that the content was to disturbing.

Question 6

Half of the people I asked related to the content, saying that the characters were around the same age and gender, the other half said no, due to the fact that they had never been on community service.

Question 7

Every person I asked said that they had seen similar trailers with most people stating films like 'The Woman in Black' and 'Insidious'.

Question 8

When asked if they could state any differences, the majority of people noted that the trailer had been filmed in daylight and that there was no spoken narrative. 

Question 9

Almost every person agreed with the choice of music, saying that it worked well with the trailer and that it was sufficiently disturbing and scary, the people who disagreed said it was because the music was a little repetitive.

Question 10

When asked if anything was lacking in the trailer, almost every person said that I could have added some spoken narrative.

Ancillary Texts:

• When asked about how effective the ancillary texts were. the majority of people asked stated that they would be enticed into watching the main product due to the professional look of both pieces and the fact that, though there were only female models, there had been a clear attempt to keep the ancillary texts gender neutral because of the blue and black based colour schemes. When asked if there was anything that could have been added or improved to either of the texts , most people said that the top of the film poster looked a little incomplete due to the lack of text and that the text on the film magazine front cover could have been clearer, possibly with a contrasting colour scheme.

Overall, I believe that the the combination of my main product and ancillary texts was quite effective, with the questionnaire producing mostly positive feedback.