Feedback & developments of the trailer.

Reflection on feedbackWe also asked people from our school upfront doing the same course as us. Ella Duncan said ‘I really love the font and style of your intertitles’ this was a very positive piece of feedback. This is because my partner worked very hard on making them look very conventional, and actually the impact it has on audience. The writing is unsettling as it is black and white and very serious.

We created the music through an app called music maker jam. We also used primary music made by ourselves as I can play the guitar and some piano, although we felt this didn’t sometimes fit in with the story of the trailer. In order to improve on this we widened our research. Supernatural horrors usually consist of high tension elements such as drums and a deep bass to fill impact the serious nature of the film. This app also came in very handy because I researched another sound making/editing software which unfortunately branded itself every 5 seconds which sounded extremely unprofessional. The music editor we used also allowed me to time when each sound would come in. This was also very postive because it meant I could time high tension sound along with the parts of high tension in the trailer, which is conventional and professional.

This app was very useful with creating unsettling notes. This is because it allowed to choose different depths in pitch and tone. Horror films often play a minor amount of notes out of tune within music in a trailer. This is because it puts the audience on edge and helps to make them feel uncomfortable.

This also allowed me to choose from a range of different sounds I could used, although horror films often choose a very simple soundtrack to stop the audience feeling at ease with common music they would hear on a day to day basis just by watching adverts. Simplistic soundtrack allows the audience to be more in tune with the tension caused by the characters fear and the antagonist.

we also had a problem with our eye-dent. This was that the dimensions were too small and made the eye-dent look very amateur. At first in order to try and rectify this we messed around with the dimensions on power point although this just lead to a stretched out image of the eye-dent. In the end I used the movie text on power director using a white background and a smaller eye with a massively white back ground. This stopped the eye from stretching and still allowed us to create a frame where we could add an affect. The affect is quite unusual, although many professional indents are very unique so we didn’t feel as if we were not a sticking to convey the rain in our eye-dent is pathetic fallacy for bad weather, hinting at the unfortunate turn of events the protagonists would take in all our horror films.