Feedback

When we showed our rough cut of our main task to the class there where mixed reviews,we had many positive aspects pointed out to take away from it, however the class did emphasise a few mistakes and areas that have room for improvement. the good points that the class highlighted to us were encouraging, the bad points we made note of in order to straighten out for our final cut. By showing our rough cut to the class at this point we were able to make good use of the feedback as the age of the class is the age of our target audience and is likely to be the age group our film trailer will most appeal to.

Positive areas

Music – a member of our class said that the slow and eerie music towards the beginning of our trailer helped to build tension and a escalating sense of fear, people also liked how the increased pace of the music was accompanied by an increase in the pace of the shots.

Shots – It was pointed out to us that the opening establishing shots helped to build suspense and help give off an eerie atmosphere which is exactly what intended with our opening shots. people also like our use of a point of view shot that used a low angle of the killer to show his dominance over his victim.

Sound – we were praised for using all our own sound effects, we spent a lot of our production time in the woods recording different sound effects such as birds and crows, gunshots. feedback also included appropriate use of the sound effects throughout the production.

Transitions – Most of the class agreed that we had a good variety of transitions and they were typical of what you would expect in a horror film trailer. We used transitions including cross dissolve, dip to black, dip to whit. The class also stated that they enjoyed our use of quick transitions between each shot to build pace.

Negative
Music – despite our music having the right pace and tempo, some members of our class believed that the music was not quite what was expected of a horror film trailer.

Shots – Our teacher said that in her opinion our killer was introduced far too early in the production, we then asked the class for a second opinion on this matter and some members of the class agreed that this immediately took away the enigma code, we took this feedback on board as the people evaluating our production are the age of our target audience.

Sound – it was suggested by our class that we remove any background noise from our production as in some parts there are footsteps of our crew that the camera microphone has picked or sounds that simply do not fit with filming.

Transitions – some of our transitions between shots where considered too long and created friction in the flow of the production, to correct this we will just simply shorten them so that the transitions are much faster pace.