Evaluation Activity 3

Audience Feedback

from the audience feedback we received, we felt very confident about the production. however the constructive criticism that we received helped us to understand how we could improve. For example, One of our peers said that they though there should be "Titles throughout the trailer, telling the audience what actor's were in it!" 

I Believe that this would have made the trailer better as the audience hay have a par-asocial relationship with the actor and therefore be a unique selling point. Also if they were snappy and fast, it would add tension. The titles would also make the audience feel connected to the characters. Another interesting point someone made about the titles was the final title, with the name of the Film. They said that the 'Elle' font wasn't very eye catching as the grey colour was too dark. I completely agree with this comment believe to improve i would need to make it a lighter color and perhaps include a shadow effect to create another dimension. 

Another point that someone said about out trailer was that they didn't believe there was enough background information around the characters. We decided that we would add in some fades to black during the trailer in order to create some titles about the characters. For example "From the beginning, Elle always knew she was different, She was Alone!" This added some context behind the character of Elle and created another dimension to her character. From what one of our peers had addressed about the background of the characters, allowed the trailer to not only have more context but also allowed it to have a more snappy and tension building opening 

In the comments there was also constructive criticism which we found was key as it was good to take on board and improve. For example, it was stated that at the end of the trailer the camera should have been focused on the character of the girls face for longer to add emphasis to the enigma of what was going to happen next, giving the audience more time to think about it. Another weakness was the fact that the beginning was quite slow which could possibly mean it takes the audience longer to get into it. Therefore, by making it a bit more upbeat we could engage the audience faster which is successful for a trailer. Finally, due to only having time to film in certain parts of the day we could not adhere to the lighting of the genre in the outside shots. For example, it would be much more eerie if the shots were taken at night time instead of in the day.