What have you learnt in your audience feedback?

After watching the classes other teaser trailers, we got everyone in our group to give us feedback on our own trailer. From reading through our feedback sheets we can see that we could of improved on a couple of things, but overall they enjoyed our teaser trailer. From looking at the feedback sheets, i can see that they really liked our ending title page and they say it worked well with the trailer and the typeface was also effective. They also liked the newspaper scene, they believe that it was a good one to chose and the effects worked well.

We also had some people say that our end scene worked very well, and was a good way to end the trailer. They also liked the setting we choe for our trailer, and said it was creepy and worked with our story. In our trailer we used a shot of some candles, the feedback we got from them was good and they liked that we repeated it later on in the trailer. On one of our feedback sheets, someone said that "I like the shots through the fence, also like the message on the wall and how it flashed".

The shot of the graffiti on the wall was quite hard to shoot because we wanted to make sure we got the right shot and i believe that it worked out okay. Also on the feedback sheets we had some comments on what we culd improve on on our trailer.

On one of the sheets we had a comment saying that we should of took some of the shots out of Rosie running as it seemed to go on for too long. They also said that when we done the newspaper it wasn't very clear and the same goes with the ouiji board, we should of zoomed in closley and maybe left it on the screen for more time so they could read what it says. They also mentioned that the chosen music for our trailer dos'nt work well and sounds too action for a horror trailer.They also have said the scenes we did outside were too bright and we could of darkened them more. Also, they said that the narrative wasn't very clear throughout our trailer and they said that the villian wasn't very clear either. From reading the feedback sheets i can see that we could of added more jumpy parts and more gore, and when something dramatic happened we could of added the right sound effect for that particular action. From conducting the research, i feel like it was a good idea to ask our classmates because from doing our earlier research we saw that most people who watch horror are at the ages between 17 - 19. So this helped us trying to gather further feedback about our actual trailer.
The conventions of our trailer they thought was good was that:

• They liked our use of camera shots throughout the trailer
• They also liked our shot where we are showing the newspaper
• They liked our title at the end which says 'Abandoned', they said it was a good way to end it
• The setting we had chosen was also a good setting for our film idea

But there are areas that they said we needed to improve on, which was:

• They said that the music in the background sounded to much like it should be an action film
• They said that the newspaper shoot could have been more clearer
• We should of made the scenes which were outside slightly darker as it does'nt work well if its light outside.

Looking back at the feedback of our classmates, if i had the cahnce to change anything i would try and find some music which would of fitted more with our storyline and genre. I also believe that we should of darkened some of the shots in our trailer as a lot of them were outside and didnt work with our darker shots inside the abandoned house. I also think that the shots of rosie where she is running outside should of been cut much quicker as they said it went on for too long. Overall i believe that we could of improved on our trailer with various parts, and if we had more time we would definatly change parts.