Evaluation Part 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback? 

we have been told that we have got some good shots so far in our trailer. We had a shot in which we do a panning shot at the bottom of a surrounding cliff in which it ends with a quick cut to a puddle of water, but from the feedback our media teacher gave us we found that if we zoomed into the cliff face at the end of the shot then zoom out of the puddle it would look better. We also learnt that our shots were slightly too long and we would need to edit them to make the trailer more effective. Another issue we had to address was the lighting. I went up to the moors to test out the different types of lighting we would need to film at night. first of all we found that the moonlight was nowhere near enough because you couldn't see even a few feet in-front of you. the second lighting we tested was a torch, we found that the torch light focuses to brightly on one spot and so we couldn't use it.Now we have changed from a short film to a teaser trailer there are only a few shots already taken which we will use from the moors.

Now we have taken the shots for the trailer we have again had audience feedback, we were told that with the grey scale beginning with white flashes they should be in sync with the beat of the music and only appear when the antagonist appears on screen. Also we made the cut of where one of our characters wakes up much quicker so its more effective. The feedback we received also helped us learn along with the trailer research that some of the shots we had taken were too long for a teaser trailer and needed to be cut down (elliptical editing).

One of the main things i received from the audience feedback was the want for more killing and a final fright. We have learnt that the audience needs a real shock in the trailer to intrigue them into watching the film, so now towards the end of our trailer we have added some killings and also a final scare.