Audience feedback

Today I have been introducing people to my trailer who have never seen it, or the making of it before. I got some excellent feedback which I am very happy with which shows that I have presented my own ideas through my project clearly for the audience to understand. I asked my audience to respond to three question after watching the trailer. 

1. Do you understand the storyline?

2. What do you think about horror as a genre? Has anyone else influenced your opinion? (Two Step Flow)

3. Are you feared by the scenes in this trailer?

Both participants responded YES to the first question and said that they has a clear understanding of what was happening all the way through the trailer. I was very happy with their answers to the second question as they had the same thoughts and opinions as I have about the horror genre. They both preferred to have to think about what is going on instead of it just being presented to them. They said they were not influenced by anyone else's opinion about the genre, but went on to say that they don't watch a film/trailer for everything to be presented to them 'on a plate' and they prefer to think about the situation and come up with their own thoughts, ideas and opinions. This can apply to the 'Reception Theory' which is presented by  Stuart Hall. This shows that my audience wanted to negotiate when decoding my trailer and maybe make their own scenario in their head on what is happening that I have not shown. Finally, my third question asked if they feared what they saw in my trailer. Their responses where something that I has not thought about in the process of making my film trailer. As they watched the footage, they thought of the child and what was happening with him. They also said that in the back of their minds they were constantly thinking of the child's welfare and how the parents would be feeling. This relates to moral panic and the secret fears the audience have when they are watching the horror genre.