Evaluation : Question 3

 Eva and I both decided to upload our trailer to Facebook before we had finished it, we both decided to do this meaning we could act on our feedback and improve negative points before submitting our finalized trailer, I am very please we chose to do this, In doing this we found out what people liked about our video and what they didn't like, meaning we could improve and act on it. In doing this is lead to us changing pacific parts of our trailer which we hoped would better our trailer.

 We both found the audience feedback very constructive and also very helpful. We shared our Video before It was finalised on YouTube and Facebook and got a few comments I also chose to show our unfinished trailer to peers in my class and members of family who fit with in our target audience, and took the constructive criticism into account.

The video we uploaded did not have a billing block as it was unfinished when posted, but still we took this into consideration and also the positive comments, I was glad we had a good comment about the variety of shots used as this was something I was cautious with when filming as Shots and transitions were my weak points at AS. Here you are able to see the billing block posted:

Again, we had another comment on not having a billing block present which is an issue we did address. Another Issue was our title, Eva thought we should have a continue theme of a Black background and White font, and then change the back ground to red for when ratings and quotations the film had been giving appeared all so to match when the feel of our trailer changed along with the sound track, I liked the idea of a continual theme of colours but did address the fact that I thought the Title didn't stand out as well as It could or should do. Eva and I had many heated discussions about this and after receiving feed back from our desire target audience and spending some time talking to both of our teachers Eva agreed with me that we should change the title, We then Changed the title from

Our original title:

 Our final Trailer title:

We feel that by changing our back ground back to black rather than the red we have had running through out majority of the trailer this set this title apart showing it was the title.                            

 

We had a comment asking as to why we had a shot of our character running backwards, It was suggest by many people that this was unclear, and from what they could see irrelevant. When Eva and I originally added this thinking it look 'cool' and a little bit different and added 'edge' to the shot, but after our feed back Eva and I sat and had a long in-depth discussion during this we both agreed that this was irrelevant, we wanted to create the feel that our character 'Stan' was either chasing someone or running away from our antagonist, by him running back wards it didn't show this, and this is why we decided to erase the reverse on the shot.

These are comments from both our first unfinished trailer and our finalised trailer. On our unfinished trailer that we posted many people commented on how good our sound track was, many people mentioned the heavy breath we included and how it was effective; especially when combined with the close up of our actors face. We also felt this would be effect as majority of our sound track is made up of a non diagectice tune so hearing a sound that is coming from our actor and is digective creates tension at just the right time, after hearing this feed back Eva and I discussed and debated adding more breathing sounds or a variety of other sounds  but then we felt that not did we not want to risk ruining something we already know was good by making it to over the top but also we knew we had limited time and thought it was better spent improving something that we had had negative feedback on and so we did not change our soundtrack one we had posted our unfinished trailer and received such positive feedback which we was extremely pleased with.

 

We decided to keep the full identity of our protagonist a secret in a bid to create tension. I feel It did create the tension like we had intended to, I personally feel it was very effective and helped our trailer to meet the conventions of a thriller. I feel that our trailer could of potentially been better if we would of been to show other features of our protagonist such as a close of her hands, lips or even eyes. We had mixed reviews on this aspect of our trailer, a slight minority of our audience feedback said they was confused, but the majority of our feedback suggest that this was a great idea and felt this was one of the best features of our film trailer.

 The majority of our audience feedback was very positive which we was extremely pleased with, we had overall 2 negative comments one saying they was slightly confused with the narrative, which we hoped would be a good thing meaning they would then go onto watch the film out of curiosity and enjoy it and the other negative comment being that we had an unsteady hand when filming in one specific shot, which if we was to redo this project would be something we would be able to address with ease. 

 

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