Tuesday 23 February 2010

First reactions

We had an opportunity to show one of our more final drafts of our trailer to a few other students, and we decided to record their personal pro's and con's to our film in order to improve it:

Pro's:
- The build of pace was appropriate to the type of trailer
- The section where Tom 'flickers' in the dark
- The overlay of diagetic/ non-diagetic sound works well
- One example of the point above is the part where the knife is being scraped, sounds creepy
- The edit at the end where Tom 'freaks out' was effective
- Generally quite creepy



Con's:
- Kloe smiles slightly in the second clip she's in
(we will look at this and see if we can edit an extra second or so to remove this part)
- The beating up was unconvincing
(I suggested speeding it up slightly to appear more aggressive, and to loop it at one part to keep the duration)
- Where Ben walks away at the beginning takes too long
(This can just simply be cut)
- Tom's 'freak out' scream is too short
(Like with the fighting, we will loop a middle part of it to make the duration longer, and fade it out so it sounds less like it just cuts)