From audience feedback I have gained a better understanding on what others, possible target audiences, like and dislike about my horror teaser trailer.
Some good points in which the audience liked in the teaser trailer were the canted camera angles, transitions and variety of different shots from the extreme long shot of the boy coming down the corridor to the extreme close-up of the eye. The audience thought these were good points as the close-ups create the audience to identify with the character more, yet feel freaked out by odd angled shots such as the cantered angles used. This being said some people thought the extreme close up eye shots was a bit to repetitive and therefore needed to be changed each time adding different effects to them, making them more unique. I agree with this point yet I don’t think we should add digital effects to them even when the audience said the distortion filters we had used were effective, as I personally prefer creating different shots using different props. By doing this I feel the audience finds the movie to be more realistic as the majority of the shots reflect real life.
The audience also found the close up of a hand scratching the floor particularly interesting and unique, as it has portrayed how the 'final girl' is feeling, this being terrified. They also found this shot to be interesting as it highlights peoples scenes, when in the situation when you are not able to see, your scenes smells and sounds more easily.
Viewers found our trailer easy to follow by the use of a voice over to hint the narrative and inter-titles to create suspense and mystery. On the other hand some found the inter-titles to be too quick and therefore hard to read.
The lighting used and created in our trailer were very successful as it had created the audience to feel nervous and scared, as to what is happening in the background of the shot.
Are biggest criticism was the debate in the music selected. Some said the music was well chosen yet there is not climax therefore lacking in suspense, yet others said the trailer was short enough to keep the soundtrack and the audience intrigued into the film.
Our teaser trailer was 1 minute and 12 seconds in which is quite short even for a teaser trailer, some of the audience felt it should have been longer or bits such as the repeated crawling scene taken out. This is to stop the audience of loosing interest, as some of the scenes are too repetitive.
Overall I think my target audience would want to see our film as I feel we have drawn the viewers in by the use of closeup camera shots forcing the audience to instantly identify with the characters and therefore what to know what will happen further on in the film asking questions such as 'Does she get her original sight back?' 'How is she seeing these things?' as they are put into her shoes and perspective in this horrible situation.
Portfolio Sections
- A. Final Product: Main Product (1)
- B. Final Piece Product: ancillery texts (1)
- C.1 Evaluation (2)
- C.2 Evaluation (1)
- C.3 Evaluation (1)
- C.4 Evaluation (1)
- D.Appendix 1:Research for main product (12)
- E. Appendix 2: pre-production planning for main product (3)
- F. Appendix 3:research for ancillery texts (1)
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Some good points here although I would like a bit more detailed analysis - eg WHAT closeups help identification? And overall, did your target audience think they would want to go and see the film? Why (or why not)?
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