Target Audience Feedback

We asked a group of 15-16 year olds to watch our trailer and give us feedback so that we are able to make suitable changes for our trailer, we will be taking the feedback into account when we make changes to our trailer. The general themes of the feedback are that the shots need to be made lighter and some shots need to be retaken and they are too blurry.

1.
WWW: Was really good
EBI: Need to include sound

2.
WWW: Good camera angles and looks professional
EBI: Shots too dark, couldnt see some of trailer

3.
WWW: Looked professional and shots were clear
EBI: Some shots too dark, needs sound

4.
WWW: Really good
EBI: Needs sound

5.
WWW: Good suspense
EBI: Better cimematograohy

6.
WWW: I liked the writing through the trailer
EBI: Some shots not needed, some were too blurry

7.  
WWW: I would go and see it in the cinema
EBI: Some parts too dark and blurry

8.
WWW: Camera angles were good and the places it was set were good choices
EBI: the title screen at the end was more proffessional

9.
WWW: Good use of shots, quite dramatic
EBI: sometimes shots too dark , add sound

10.
WWW: good range of camera angles used
EBI: add sound, lighten dark shots

11.
WWW: Good storyline was entertaining and made you want to watch more
EBI: Lighten some of the dark shots

12.
WWW: Good use of set, good acting
EBI: Add more light to dark shots

13.
WWW: It is a really good idea for a film and the angles make it tense
EBI: The shots weren’t so dark

14.
WWW: Good – seemed real, made us feel like it was real.
EBI: Make text on phone clearer, add sound and make shots lighter
15.
WWW: Good kind of “what’s going to happen next”
EBI: Shots were too dark
16.
WWW: The woods was really good setting, and I liked the running away section
EBI: The school part at the beginning didn’t seem to relate to her being captured
17.
WWW: It was good because of the dark background on the scary parts and they used the right shots
18.
WWW: It was really good
EBI: Longer and more sound also if it was brighter
19.
WWW: Very suspenseful more like a horror film very realistic
EBI: Crop the video of her opening the door as she does it twice
20.
EBI: The shots are scruffy at the start
WWW: But gets better at the end and end title was good
21.
WWW: good with the build-up, good title ending
EBI: beginning a bit boring, needs sound and needs different backgrounds
22.
WWW: Only bit in the woods was amazing
EBI: It don’t look real, need sounds

Trailer Feedback

I have gathered feedback from friends, family and peers to find out what i can do to improve the trailer. I have asked my target audience (16-21) for feedback so that i can improve things to make it more realistic for them.
Jackie Murray // Age 46
Pros
Good use of lighting
Good use of locations
Cons
The font at the end of the trailer should be different
Where kayley walks out it should be cut so its smoother
Some of the scenes are too dark

Holly Orton // 17
Pros
Camera angles create good effect
Text between shots good
Leaves you in suspense
Cons
Phone text isnt clear enough
Some scenes too dark
Show that she is tied up first
Add sound

Rebecca Davis // 17
Pros
Gets darks as she goes into the woods
Good editing
Cons
Texts needs to be clearer
Cut classroom scene
Mke writing creepier


From this feedback we have decided to change the font at the end of the trailer, cut some of the scenes to make them smoother, I will be adding a scene of her hands tied up so that it is clear, I will be adding sound and making sure that it all works. I will be retaking the shot of the phone so that the text and phone call is more clear.

Magazine

For our magazine we are currently deciding our layout and logo, we have decided to merge text and image to make our magazine logo and we have decided to do this on photoshop or flash software to make the final logo, we will be using the audience feedback that we gathered from previous questionnaires for the font of the logo and we will be creating our own image for the background.


This is the font that people chose on the questionnaire.






So far for the logo I have created this and we will be finishing in and adding colours then using it within our magazine front cover.






From my magazine research I have found that we need to include puffs, tag lines, sell lines, mast head, barcode, main image as well as smaller images and text on our horror trailer magazine.


Final Logo;
 

Problems with Premiere Pro

While making our first trailer edit we encountered some problems with premiere pro, with these problems we was able to work around these and solve some of them. These included our trailer not plaiying on the premiere pro software so we had to create the rest of our trailer without being able to see it, we also had a problem with converting the file from the premiere pro file to a MPEG2 file as there was a pronblem with the software. We was able to fix this by looking on Google for answers.

 

 

We also have a problem with rednering the project, so we had to render the file on my home computer instead of completing it at school. 

Horror Trailer No1

This is our first final edit of out trailer so far, we will be collecting reviews from peers, family and our target audience so that we have points that we can improve to make our trailer better.