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Feedback on rough cut trailer
As a group, we were asked to show our rough cut trailers to the rest of the class to gain feedback from each individual person.
Having completed our rough cut of our psychological/ gore horror trailer, we showed it to the rest of the class whilst they took down notes on what they liked about the trailer as addition to what they feel could be improved. After doing this, our trailer was re-played for second opinions and then the sheets were given to us. By doing this, I feel that my group now has a better understanding on the positive aspects and negative aspects that will help us to distinguish how to create the best trailer that we can for our final product.
To begin with, when focusing on the positive aspects within our trailer, the majority agreed that our story line was unique and realistic whilst clearly illustrating it through the action. The music used within our trailer was described as appropriate and worked really well with the action whilst keeping the audience fixated onto the screen by "interesting" shots. Many people mentioned the gore effect towards the end with the throat slitting that was favourited by more than half of the class. This effect was said to have looked realistic and illustrated our gore theme well. Linking with this idea, the ending jump scare was said to be a really nice touch to the trailer and represents our other sub-genre: psychological. Other factors include how powerful the psychiatric shots were as addition to including many close ups that helped to create suspense and tension. The clothing throughout these shots (the straight jacket) was said to be imaginative and helped to portray the story line more clearly. To break the trailer up and keep the audience interested, the text in between that gave more information was said to be clever and the background of the text was said to link in with the trailer well. With the location being a psychiatric hospital, we used locations such as hospitals and toilets to be as accurate as possible and from the audiences responses, feel that we succeeded.
When focusing on the negative aspects of our trailer that need to be improved upon, the whole class agreed that it was slightly too long, with the beginning sequence dragging on a little too much. As addition to this, people suggested including more jump scares, more transitions between shots, seeing more of the antagonist and more killing. As a mixed response, we received one comment that suggested that we included dialogue whereas multiple others said they liked the fact that there was no dialogue.
On average, we received a score of 8, having been given one six, three sevens, six eights, two nines and two tens.
In conclusion to our feedback, we will be shortening the trailer as a whole by making the introduction a lot quicker. In between text shots, we will be including fades to make the trailer run more smoothly and will be introducing more sinister shots.
Having completed our rough cut of our psychological/ gore horror trailer, we showed it to the rest of the class whilst they took down notes on what they liked about the trailer as addition to what they feel could be improved. After doing this, our trailer was re-played for second opinions and then the sheets were given to us. By doing this, I feel that my group now has a better understanding on the positive aspects and negative aspects that will help us to distinguish how to create the best trailer that we can for our final product.
To begin with, when focusing on the positive aspects within our trailer, the majority agreed that our story line was unique and realistic whilst clearly illustrating it through the action. The music used within our trailer was described as appropriate and worked really well with the action whilst keeping the audience fixated onto the screen by "interesting" shots. Many people mentioned the gore effect towards the end with the throat slitting that was favourited by more than half of the class. This effect was said to have looked realistic and illustrated our gore theme well. Linking with this idea, the ending jump scare was said to be a really nice touch to the trailer and represents our other sub-genre: psychological. Other factors include how powerful the psychiatric shots were as addition to including many close ups that helped to create suspense and tension. The clothing throughout these shots (the straight jacket) was said to be imaginative and helped to portray the story line more clearly. To break the trailer up and keep the audience interested, the text in between that gave more information was said to be clever and the background of the text was said to link in with the trailer well. With the location being a psychiatric hospital, we used locations such as hospitals and toilets to be as accurate as possible and from the audiences responses, feel that we succeeded.
When focusing on the negative aspects of our trailer that need to be improved upon, the whole class agreed that it was slightly too long, with the beginning sequence dragging on a little too much. As addition to this, people suggested including more jump scares, more transitions between shots, seeing more of the antagonist and more killing. As a mixed response, we received one comment that suggested that we included dialogue whereas multiple others said they liked the fact that there was no dialogue.
On average, we received a score of 8, having been given one six, three sevens, six eights, two nines and two tens.
In conclusion to our feedback, we will be shortening the trailer as a whole by making the introduction a lot quicker. In between text shots, we will be including fades to make the trailer run more smoothly and will be introducing more sinister shots.
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