Feedback

To develop our teaser trailer, we needed feedback from our first version to find out what was good and what we could improve. We got friends and family to fill in a short questionnaire after watching our teaser trailer to get this response from people fitting our target audience. This has given us a wide range of feedback from dozens of perspectives, and we will be sure to use this wen considering possible change to our final trailer. There are some obvious improvements that we ourselves could see, such as adding music and changing some our our shots around, but other than this it was useful to get the opinion of others and make some well-places edits accordingly.

I have typed up our questionnaires ad they are on a seperate page. You can find the feedback from a link on the right hand side of our blog, or from this link: http://soullessproductions.blogspot.com/p/feedback.html

What did we find from our results and how did we use them to develop our trailer?

Would you watch this film? Why?

From our survey we found out that most people would go and see our film because it was gripping and left them with many unanswered questions so they would go and watch it to find out.

Can you tell what genre it is? How?

Everyone could distinguish that it is a horror film. It was great to find out that it was the signifiers that made it the genre clear, like screaming, blood and dark lighting. (A signifier are the things that show it's a horror. For example, blood is a signifier of the horror genre because it is used in all horror films.)

Is the plot clear?

Most people could understand our basic narrative, but it wasn’t completely clear. We improved this in our trailer by adding a shot of the villain because we found that it was unclear who the villain was in the trailer.

What do you remember from the trailer?

Many people remembered the email with the date which was great because it is vital to the narrative, as it is the catalyst to everything going wrong! Also, we were very pleased to find out that the last shot of the male tied up was memorable. This is great because we wanted the last image to create impact and be shocking. Our research led us to find that the ending and the beginning are memorable, but the middle lacks any impact, therefore we have added a really quick flash of the villain stood threateningly with a knife in the middle of our trailer, to make people jump and hopefully that image will be memorable.

How would you improve it?

Everyone mentioned adding sound or/and music to create an atmosphere, so now we added some music, that changes with the narrative. Also the villain isn't really seen, it isn't completely clear who the baddie is, so we added a flash of him stood in a strong menacing pose.