What have you learned from audience feedback

WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM AUDIENCE FEEDBACK?

Not enough typical horror

• We were told that not many of the shots were particularly scary, and we needed some more that would really get across the genre of horror.

• Because of this we added the shots of Marissa lying dead at the bottom of the stairs, and Yasmina coming to the crime scene.

Too repetitive

• We wanted to put a lot of shots of the Toria in our trailer because it is an important location, and it’s scary looking however we were told that we had too many shots of it and we didn’t really need that many.

• We took some of them out but made some sound effects for the shots that we did have to ensure that the audience knew it was significant.

Strange sound effects

• For the shots of the Marissa death, we originally left the sound on it and turned it up really loud so that you could hear the shot changing.

• However we were told that it sounded really weird, and resembled the sound a dog makes whilst panting, so we took it off by muting the clips.

Words on the screen

• We originally wanted to put some words on the screen, as we were inspired by the trailer for “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”

• We thought this would make the plot clearer.• However we were told that it was fine the way it was,

and adding words could possibly reduce the pace of the trailer.

Change of music

• We originally used a different track for the opening of the trailer, but then we were told that it didn’t make it sound enough like a horror film.

• This is the track we changed it to http://soundcloud.com/soniccenturyrecords/the-mirror

• We were told that this was much better as it made it feel more scary.

Narration

• We also planned to have some narration in our trailer, to make the plot clearer.

• However we were told that we didn’t really need this, as it was clear enough what was going on, and because the music was so effective we didn’t want to ruin it by putting someone’s voice on top of it.

Facebook Page

• We made a Facebook page for our Film and included the trailer so people could tell us what they thought.

• We got mainly good feedback, however some people had different opinions on how many full stops should come after “Knowing”, and the shakiness of the shots.

Acland Burghley School

• We went to Acland Burghley School and saw some other peoples work and showed our own, and got some feedback. This is what we were told and as you can see we took it all into account when finishing off our trailer.