We got feedback from our class mates and teachers on our trailer, by having these two different types of people meant we would get various opinions on our product. By having our teachers analyse it it let them use their experience to tell us what they liked and what they thought could be improved and by having our classmates give us feedback was also useful as they are the appropriate age for our target audience which we aimed towards. All this feedback meant that we could improve on what we couldn't see when making it as most of time while working on a product for a long time you cant see through what needs improvement. Below are some of the improvements that we got from our feedback suggested for our trailer.
"The overall trailer looked too much like a film opening"
To fix this we split up the trailer by adding more intertitles to direct the narrative and also made the trailer a lot faster by speeding up cuts and made sure that the pace was the stereotypical speed of a trailer for our genre. These changes certainly made our trailer more conventional.
"Add more diegetic sound"
We initially wanted our trailer to be mysterious by having as little diegetic sound as possible but it soon became clear from the feedback that it was the narrative was a little unclear so we changed this and added diegetic speech of Owen's parents when he was received his exam results and then stormed off. This made it much more clearer that he was under pressure from them.
"Make Owen look more aggressive and controlling"
To do this we added footage of texts from Owen to show the audience that he was controlling, we also made the speed of him putting his foot in the door much more quicker as before it didn't look very aggressive, by doing this it made him look more possessive which is the what we wanted to create initially.
"Add more colour to the intertitles"
When we first created our intertitles we had just a white text on a black background but people thought this was too plain and didn't really show off the genre we were displaying. So we decided to change it up and have a red colour on one significant word on each intertitle, this connoted the more violent side and also Owen's aggressiveness.
The other feedback I got was for my ancillary tasks.
Film magazine cover - "Change barcode size"
For this change I simply moved the barcode on my magazine cover from being vertical to horizontal then changed the size, initially this was done just to fill space but I understood from the feedback that it would look a lot better the way they suggested it and therefore moved a few things around.
"Make characters bigger, fill the empty space"
After I had finished my product of the magazine cover I got feedback from my teachers saying that I could do with changing the size of my characters to make them bigger. This is because before there was a little empty space above both characters, also by enlarging the characters emphasises that the magazine is about my film and that these two characters will be the main stars within it. Giving a clear indication to readers about the narrative.
"Detach Under Control Special! from 3 images"
This was pointed out to me after the first draft and had gotten feedback from our classmates, they thought that it could be quite confusing to people who hadn't seen a trailer for my film. 'Under Control Special' looked liked it was linked towards the three images of other films I was advertising on the front cover because of the same style font and colouring. Therefore i detached the red block colouring behind it and placed it above the 3 images making it much more clearer for readers.
"Change text size and placing of Jared Taylor interview"
This was featured in the corner of my magazine near the barcode and included 4 lines of writing about an exclusive interview with an actor in my film. Feedback thought that having a different number of words on certain lines didn't work. For example I had 3 words on the 2nd bottom line then just 1 word on the very bottom line creating a sense of confusion and unprofessional look. To change this I equaled out all of the wording and lettering to make sure it fitted a square, then I could perfectly fit it into the corner of my magazine without it looking out of place or weird.
Poster - "Change 4 stars to 5 stars"
On my original poster I included reviews at the very top in each corner which had 4 star reviews, feedback suggested I should stop being modest as this wasn't very realistic and change it to 5 instead. They also said by only having 4 stars may give the impression that my film isn't very good either so this was also a reason for the change.
"Review websites/magazines too large"
Also on the poster below the star rating I had reviews from various newspapers, magazines and websites. The feedback I was given was that the writing of these companies were too large and to make them smaller while increase the size of the stars to emphasise the reviews. This made much more sense as by having the stars bigger than the actual reviewer entices audiences to see the film as straight away they know that it has been given good reviews.
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