Audience

We set out to target our audience in different ways. We didn't set out to target a particular adueince but the finish piece made it appeal to mainly females. The type of person that would typically view our short film is females that are quite girly and are interested in these types of topics. The way in which our short film targets this particular type of audience is through its mise-en-scene. The props that we use in our film are typically girly and very "barbie" like, a use of lots of pinks and female products. The actress used in the film may also target this audience because she is shown as girly and looks like a model. This may attract the kind of females which read a lot of fashion magazines. Although our film is typically girly, it also has a very strong meaning behind it. The type of person who may view our piece may be someone who works with girls that have body image disorders or people who work for magazines and are very hot on this issue. I think this could attract this type of audience because in our short film we show body image as an extreme. Our piece will also attract the younger females because of the voice over used, the female we used to do our voice over has a very young voice. I don't particularly think that the music attracts any specific type of audience as it is very basic, however it does add a sense of seriousness to our piece making it more "watchable" to an older audience.

We handed out a questionnaire to a group of year 12's. Five males and ten females. We asked them various questions about our short film to do with the way our film came across to them and things that we could have improved on, here is a summary of the feedback they gave and how it helped us to have a better understanding of how other people saw our short film.

In our piece we tried our hardest to show the physical and emotional effects some females go to, to perfect their body image. In our questionnaire we wanted to know if we did this effectively. The feedback we got was positive as everyone apart from one student, said that we showed this effectively. This made me feel like we achieved what we set out to do.

In our short film we wanted our film to convey the message that "No matter how much one alters the way in which they look confidents comes from within". We gave the audience three options to pick about what they thought our film conveys, there was no right or wrong answer as most answers were linked to eachother but it was interesting to see what most people thought. Both males and females picked similar answers and some even picked two. This made me feel as if our film gave off lots of differents vibes and messages and i took this as a positive thing rather than negative.

We wanted to show the audience that the body image we show isn't the "ideal" one but people still let trying to pefect themselves take over their lives. We asked the audience "Do you think this short film portrays what the idea body image is?" I found the answers given very interesting as ALL of the males said "yes" and all of the females apart from one said "no". This to me showed that males still think all females should have that perfect celebrity look in which you only see in magazines.

We used the poem in our short film because we thought that it will give the audience a better understanding of what was actually going on in the film. I personally thought the film was nothing without the poem being read underneathe. We asked the audience if they would have understood the meaning behind the short film if the poem wasn't used. We got varied answers from this but suprisingly most of them said that they would have understood the meaning without the poem being read.

After being unhappy with the first edit of our film we knew we had to add something in to make it more interesting, so we added in still images. We asked the audience if they thought the imagery compliments, confuses or makes them understand what the film is about. We got positive feedback from this as all of them either chose "compliments" or "makes them understand what the film is about". This made me feel as if it was worth the extra time and effort adding in the still imagery.

We didn't use dialouge in our short film and i was always left wondering "what if" what if it would have given the better understanding? or would it have made our piece more interesting? The feedback we got was mixed, roughly half said dialouge would have made our piece more engaging and the other half said it wouldn't half. Atleast not everybody thought dialouge was necessary.

The feedback we got from our short film made me feel slightly better about the film as at first i didn't want anyone else to see it as i did not think it was good enough. The majority of the feedback was positive with made me glad that we got feedback from others and gave others the chance to watch it. The feedback also gave me a sense of achievment because it showed that the messages we wanted to send out worked and people understood what it was about.

As i was not feeling confident enough about our short film i didn't want to upload it on any social networking site.

We asked the audience: If you could change one thing about this short film what would it be?

Male "Tell us more about the character."
Female "The way it's edited and the titles."
Female "Make it longer to go into detail on what the film is about."