Construction Update

I am now into the last week of editing and working on my trailer. I have already created a draft trailer, as this was a draft trailer we decided to make it a teaser trailer rather than a theatrical trailer . As we had not filmed all of our shots,with this I have shown a focus group that are in the age range of my target audience and have gained feed back on what they thought.



Key areas to focus on with editing in the last week

Firstly, our foucs group thought that out trailer music was apporopirate to the genre but also relfect a slight elemnt sof the horror genre. I  know that to improve on the music and to help convey the genre of Psychological thriller, I will need to add Sound effects. Especailly the shot of one of our actors in a hospital like setting, we reallly want a heart/vitals monitor beep in the background to help convey the story line and the narrative in the shot. As some of our focus group said they thought she was dead rather than in a coma.

Secondly, I feel that within our trailer we have quite a few zoom-ins. As some of our focus grouoped picked up on this, I feel that motioning the shots will give greater shot variety and not look so repetative and make the shots flow more easily. As agian one of the shots in the hospital like setting zooms in on the actors face and i feel that this shot would look better as a motion shot and have tighter framing than just a zoom.

Thirdly, I also feel that from out focus group feedback that some of our audeince were confused to what the 'trauma' the girl had gone through and what the starting point for this 'domino effect' of events. I feel that having a shot of a family, such as a family potrait burning giving a sense of how the narrative starts and how the course of events unfold.

Finally, I also feel in the beginning of our trailer where there are panning shots of the forest there should be a possible voice over. As i feel this will help explain the narative a bit better and leave the audience less confused to what the catalyst of the evenst acctually is.