Audience Feedback Sheets

The following are some of the audience feedback sheets which we gave out to a group of students who had not viewed the trailer before, we took them to a screening room where we explained our main theme of the grindhouse slasher film and told them a little background information about the grindhouse genre. We played the 'AXE!' trailer followed by the comic remake of the 'Don't Go in the House' trailer, shortly followed by the non-degraded version of our trailer and then the final trailer which was made to look degraded. After they had viewed all of the above we gave them a question sheet to complete which helped us realise how we could approach the task if we were to do it again. The results showed that even though most of the participants did get a hint of the narrative they would have still made some changes to where some of the sequences in the trailer could have gone. We also found that the use of sound was said to fit in well with the grindhouse slasher genre and it made sense since the visual quality was made to go with it. However we also found that those who did not prefer the degraded version over the non-degraded version mostly gave the reason that it was due to the unclearity of the shots which were hard to focus on. Another thing that we found out from this task was that most of the participants suggested that the only thing they would have done different was that they would add more blood and gore to the trailer because ours lacked in blood splattering unlike the 'AXE!' or the 'Don't' trailers.