Feedback From Audience

Our feedback from our audience, mainly people in our class and our teacher have all looked at our movie trailer and given us feedback on the direction that we should now take the trailer, poster and magazine in.

The first thing that people said is that the trailer wasn't that scary, it had atmosphere with all of the shots that were taken from the rear of the car, but nothing physically scary that they jumped at. Our idea, which is an accumulation of a few peoples ideas is to include a third character, a murderer, that will act as the horror to the film. We can introduce him in several ways, all of which we will try out, with some of the ideas including a second car driving around and a glove scene - preparing for the murders. Both of these ideas involve adapting the storyline that we already have, from a couple that go out for a night at the pub and then encounter some odd things on the way home to the new storyline of them being murdered. Both Tom and Myself feel that this gives the story more of a punch and will definitely improve the final outcome.

Another suggestion is the name. Originally the film was meant to relate to the pub a lot more, but now the storyline has been changed and adapted several times the pub isn't really included in the film trailer much, so we have decided to change the name, the ideas that we've come out with so far include 'The Gear Shift Killer' and 'The Seatbelt Strangler', although these names aren't amazing, they do however stick in your head, are quite catchy and would make the film fit in a lot more with the Horror genre.

There are a few smaller details that both Tom and myself both think we should change. One of them is the use of titles, and other visual effects for the film, filming alone won't be enough to get a creepy, horror style of fear across to the audience, this will require myself to learn a few more techniques on Lightworks, the video editor we have decided to use for our film trailer.

- Ben

Movie Trailer Progress

To start off with our Horror trailer I watched all of the clips through to decide which clips were usable, which parts of some of the clips were usable and what order I would put the clips in. I then put all of the usable clips into movie maker, cut them down and put them into an order. This has formed the basis for our movie trailer to which we could then build on, adding sound and visual effects. At this point the trailer is fairly bare but it gives us a rough idea as to what our final outcome will be like and it also gives us the chance to see which clips could have been improved if we had the chance to film them again.

So far I would say that filming went fairly well, there were some clips which we had to use which I would have liked to re-shoot, but because of time and the fact that we used an iPhone to film all of the clips I think that it looks fairly good. When you think about the final piece without actually going out and filming it I think the quality of the clips was something I was expecting to be better, but the resources we had to use worked okay, and I'm happy with the way it's coming along.

Aside from a few clips which maybe aren't as good as they could have been I think the trailer is coming along nicely. I now need to finalise the whole process, adding music and some visual effects to make the trailer look and feel like an actual movie trailer. At this point I'm not 100% sure with the music that we are going to use, but I'm sure like the other things we are working on with the project it will be something that will come together when Tom and myself sit down and decide on things like this.

-Ben