Teacher feedback

As well as our focus group we got our teacher to view our initial trailer in which she gave us some constructive critisism.

There were quite a few things that needed to be improved for our film trailer to be successful.
We felt that the storyboard we used was quite linear so decided to change the initial shot to the clip of us walking into the forest approaching the 'girl'. When viewing this our teacher felt that it was too random. We needed to use a different shot so that it would give the audience some kind of introduction to the narrative of the film and so that it wouldn't be completely abstract. As well as this part of someone's ear came into view of the shot at the side of the camera which took away the focus from the scary character which is what we wanted the audience to really look at. It was also said that the camera was too wobbly and that we needed to incorporate the idea that we were filming by using a tripod. Also the jittering of the camera made it harder to focus on certain things. The scene in which Nusrat and I are talking both of us aren't completely in the shot and we kept turning our backs to the camera. Once again this made it hard to focus on us as we weren't still and didn't seem involved, we weren't connecting with the audience by using our dialect to grab their attention. The dialect also needed to be louder and clearer so that the audience could hear what we were saying. As well as this the ending was too linear, as characters in horror film trailers are often silent and mysterious and aren't revealed in the teaser trailers however our ending was almost like the ending of a film and our teacher felt that she should be silent. Like our focus group it felt that more narration was needed so we thought about incorporating a narrator to speak over the film or even adding in words to flash up in between clips to guide the audience through what's going on. Another thing that we had to change was the music, after hearing it in the film it became to soft and innocent and wasn't striking enough to make the audience feel uneasy.