Feedback

This stage is where we begun to get our first bit of feedback from all of our initial ideas. These included the idea’s for the trailer, magazine covers and posters for our teaser trailer. We created a questionnaire for people to fill out, we gave this out to people in our class because they understood what we was doing, the conventions and the standards they should be up to. This then gave us some advice on what we should improve on as a group.

Stage 1

As a group we all done our individual initial idea’s and wrote a story line for each one. We layed out each one and put a few questions on a sheet for people to answer. We wanted to find out which one they thought would work best. The feedback we received was that the most favourite one was the supernatural one. The feedback said that the other ones were too predictable and people would already be familiar with what is going to happen because they are too common.

Initial Idea’s

These were the sketches we did for our idea’s for the magazine covers, we had a few idea’s and then got feedback so we knew which one people thought would work best. The one that was the most favourite was the first one. It had everything you would see on an empire magazine and looked the most professional. It was very detailed and had all the conventions to make it stand out, it was well analysed and you could see the characters whole body.

Magazine Covers

We all individually done a sketch for our Posters to get feedback of what people thought would look good and if they would make any changes. We asked people to write down 1,2 or 3 on a piece of paper of which poster they liked better. Majority of the people agreed the first one would work best and fit in well with the teaser trailer because its showing the two main characters. It was seen as just a nice simple typical teaser poster and just basic, this is usually what a poster looks like. The bit of feedback we got was that maybe we could have added a release date.

We was also still struggling with captions for our film

Posters

Stage 2

These show all our edits of our first productions and the feedback we received to help improve our final versions. This made it easier for us to decide which poster we was going to go for by finding out which one stood out to people the most.

Magazine CoverAfter looking the empire magazine “The

Dark Knight” we came up with a new idea for our magazine cover. We decided to really emphasis the mask in the picture so it links in well with the title. We asked the audience which one they thought fitted in better with the magazine conventions. The feedback we got was very positive about both but the second one got 2 extra votes. The feedback we received said the darkness on the second one is better and makes the white mask stand out a lot more and also “world’s exclusive” gets lost in the white mask on the first magazine cover. We also got feedback saying the second cover looks more horror, but overall it looks like a more professional cover.

Poster’sThese are the first edits of our

poster's we all created different ones and got feedback to help us decide which one to use for our final version. Our feedback helped us decide that the fourth one fitted in the best with our other productions. The yellow front colour linked well with the magazine cover, The feedback we received said the third one looks like they are standing on the side of the building and is abit too much for a poster.

After a group discussion we had we decided that our idea’s wasn’t very creative so we decided to come up with a group idea. We looked at all our other initial idea’s and we had a great variety so we started putting them together. We all came up with an action thriller idea that we thought would work well and be a lot more interesting and was one we knew we could definitely film and get the crops for. We had the thought in our head and planned it all out and wrote notes down and decided that was the one we was definitely going to go for. So the feedback we received made us consider maybe we wasn’t putting enough imagination into it

and just making it to other ones that are all very similar and ordinary.

Trailer idea

Storyboards

This was the idea we finally come up with. We done the story boards then we was struggling as a group to come up with captions so that’s what we asked the audience to help us with idea’s for. We asked them what they thought would work well and fit in with our teaser trailer. The Reponses we got were; two ruthless criminals, Eyes without a face and Death without remorse.

Stage 3

This is the final edits that we decided on after receiving our audience feedback. This includes out Magazine Cover, Poster and Teaser Trailer.

Final: Magazine Cover

This Was our final version of our magazine cover. We decided this because our feedback. This had the most positive feedback and the most votes out of the two we had.

Feedback

“This magazine cover looks very professional and glossy. The picture leaves enough space for the writing making it clear and visual.” Mark Farnsworth

“originally I thought this was for a horror, yet looking at the poster and trailer I thought it was suitable for a thriller. It looks professional and follows all the conventions.” Faye Naylor

Final: Poster

This was the final version we decided to go with for our final poster. It fits in with all the conventions and the colour’s and fonts also link in well with our trailer and the magazine cover

Feedback

“The image itself is a strong image I can instantly tell this is a thriller by the gun and by having masked villains. However it looks like its an Action style film ”Harry Forewood

“I like the fact it uses two girls as villains rather than a stereotypical male leads. Its very minimal yet it gets the idea of a thriller across.”Christie Galvin-law

Final: Teaser Trailer

This is a screen grab from our final Teaser Trailer. We decided to go for the action Thriller because that’s the one that got the most votes from our target audience and had the most positive feedback.

• I loved he start of the teaser trailer and the way the shots keep coming up throughout the trailer, that worked really well. The camerawork throughout the trailer is very steady and the lighting is great. My favourite bit is the crime scene I love the way its set up and looks so realistic. I would certainly go and see this if there was a film made for it. Chloe Barker

• I enjoyed watching this teaser trailer, It’s really well broken up and doesn’t get boring because there are so many different shots at different times. I like the way its in black and white for the past tense that really stands out and is very clear to understand. I think there could have been some speaking or a voiceover included instead of just all music throughout. Other than that I think the teaser trailer works very well for a thriller genre. Joe Twinn

People’s Feedback

• It’s a very good teaser trailer but I did find it abit hard to follow at first. But as it goes on it starts getting easier to understand. It used great suspense when they are going through the safe; as audience we are there hoping they hurry because they are so close to getting caught. The clothing is great, the dark clothing really makes the white masks stand out. The flashbacks are really good it’s a great affect to the trailer, It’s great the way you done the past tense in black and white. Amy Holt

• Overall it was a great teaser trailer and I would definitely go and see the film if it had one. The only bit that I noticed was the way they are pushing the knife into the girl its looks very unrealistic. Other than that, I think it looks like an professional teaser trailer. It doesn’t give away too much. Ellis Tucker

Positive

Sophisticated cinematography

Good costumes

excellent camerawork

Compelling

Well structured

Good amount of action

Negative

Lack of information

bad pacing

Part of Unrealistic acting

Messy

Contrast of Genre’s

AnalysisThroughout our work we have been receiving positive and negative feedback. The

negative feedback that we was given throughout making our products helped us to create the final versions we have. We agreed with some of the comments given for our products throughout the work for example our initial idea’s for the trailer were to common and predictable. This then made us consider planning a new idea as a group.

The feedback we received for our final versions made us look at our work different. We agreed with some of the comments but some of the other comments we did not agree with and wouldn’t change. For example a part of the feedback we received was “I like the way its in black and white for the past tense that really stands out and is very clear to understand. I think there could have been some speaking or a voiceover included instead of just all music throughout.” we did not agree we have captions and a voice over wasn’t really necessary for our trailer. Where as a bit of feedback we did agree on was “The only bit that I noticed was the way they are pushing the knife into the girl its looks very unrealistic.” after receiving that and looking at it over again we could see what he meant so maybe if we did this again we could have redone that part.