Evaluation Part 3

What have we learned from our audience feedback?

We have been told that we have got some good shots so far in our film. We had a shot in which we do a panning shot at the bottom of a surrounding cliff in which it ends with a quick cut to a puddle of water, but from the feedback our media teacher gave us we found that if we zoomed into the cliff face at the end of the shot then zoom out of the puddle it would look better. We also learnt that our shots were slightly too long and we would need to edit them to make the trailer more effective. Another issue we had to address was the lighting. i went up to the moors to test out the different types of lighting we would need to film at night. first of all we found that the moonlight was nowhere near enough because you couldn't see even a few feet in-front of you. the second lighting we tested was a torch, we found that the torch light focuses to brightly on one spot and so we couldn't use it.

As we have decided to switch to doing a trailer quite later on, we are no longer using most of the footage we took for the short film so the first paragraph is no longer relevant. I thought i would leave it in anyway as it may be worth some marks.

Some critical feedback we have recieved from our teacher is the addition of a voice over to the trailer, we intend to get this done this week commencing (monday the 26th). Some positive feedback we have recieved from our peers is how well we have intercut various scenes, we were pleased to hear this as some of the inter cutting were done as changes towards the end of the creation of the trailer.

Below is a video from a couple of our peers giving us some audience feedback for our trailer on camera.



In answer to the specific feedback mentioned by Toby and Theo in the video, some of the things they mentioned we were unable to do better. For example we could not afford to hire an expert to do the voice over for the trailer so I had to do it my self. As well as this we attempted a couple of other methods for the final scene with the knife slashing down but the results were not very good so we decided to go for the one in the trailer. If we had more resources or financial backing then we could have spent more to try and get a more a realistic noise for the knife slash at the end. Finally, about Theo's comments on the audio, we were restricted through copyright laws so we struggled to find acceptable music we could use and although we thought about making our own we did not think it would be very good.

There was also some positive feedback in the video about a couple of things like the grey scaling effect we used at the start and our peers also picked out how we had related our trailer to some codes and conventions we had seen in other horror films with them specifically mentioning Halloween and Dead Man's Shoes which were two films that we did look at.