Evaluation Q3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Target audience

The target audience I looked at would be from 16-50, non-specific to gender, ethnicity or social class; This is the demographic of my documentary because of how widely varied it is and how many topics it covers that would interest any age, gender, class or race. I think as my documentary is of crime genre many ages are interested in this, which is why the age range is so wide. I don't think a crime genre documentary would be suitable for someone younger than 16 or older than 50 as I believe it would either be too frightening, uninteresting or wouldn't be able to understand the factual element to it.
I don't think my target audience would be the social group who have a disposable income to more likely pay in order to watch it as people can easily watch the documentary for free on catch-up.
I think my target audience would have to be interested in psychology (minds of criminals) and the crime system as this is what the documentary is about.

Feedback 

The feedback I got was mostly positive as the mixture of dialogue, narrative and sound effects/music was complimented as people said that this added
Also, my use of transitions was complimented because of the diversity and how I introduced and ended shots with different transitions for example, I presented a shot of the location with a cut and ended it with a fade. Also, people said that my use of transitions created a soft flow throughout making all the shots link and blend well together.
I was told originally to make my outside location shots more creative by adding in more camera angles. In addition, I was told to improve on including another character as it lacks characters and film their perspective whether they're a friend, officer, family member to the prisoner.

Changes I made due to feedback:

I decided to make changes based on my feedback, as I asked a wide range of ages in my demographic bracket. The first change I made was adding in an alternative perspective from the prisoners family member to provide a in-depth insight into the prisoner's history and character from a young child, which makes the documentary more interesting for the audience. Next from feedback, I decreased the volume of some of the sound effects as they were too loud and overpowering. In addition, so the sound volume didn't harshly decrease or increase suddenly, I edited the sound so it gradually and slowly decreases/increases as the scene plays.