Feedback for trailer at this point in production

When we showed our rough cut to the class there where mixed reviews, there where lots of positives to take away from it, however the class did notice a few errors and room for improvement. We took on board all of the comments that we received, by editing the bad and highlighting the good. By showing this to the class at this point was very useful as the age of the class is the age that we believe the film trailer will most appeal to, so we really valued their opinion on our production so far. The list below is a review of the good and bad comments.

Positive

Music – One class member said that the slow music at the beginning helped to create tension, and that the faster music when the pace of the trailer changes was effective and matched the flow of the horror trailer.

Shots – It was said that the opening establishing shots helped to create tension and help give off an eeire atmosphere. This is what intended with our opening shots.

Sound – The sound was one of our best things according to our audience, they admired the fact that we went out and recorded the majority of our own sound, For example the gun shot and the sound that involved the scissors clicking between each transition.

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 like cross dissolve, dip to black, dip to white, simple blackouts and many others. They also mentioned that we used quick snappy transitions between each shot; these are transitions that are associated with this type of production.

Negative

Music – Although our music had the right pace and tempo, some people believed that the music was not relevant to the trailer and that tune was not suited the horror film production.

Shots – Miss Grant Muller (Our teacher) said that in her opinion our killer was introduced way to early, we asked the class for a second opinion, some people agreed we listened to this feedback as the people evaluating our production are the age of our intended audience.

Sound – Remove any background sound, to this we will mute the production and any dialogue or sound will be added into it.

Transitions – some transitions where considered too long, to correct this we will just simply shorten them so that the transitions are much snappier and quicker.