Audience Feedback

We recieved good audience feedback on our teaser trailer both negative and positive points were raised and would be things we could work on in the future were we to do the task again. We showed it to a group of peers, this was ideal for us as they would be the target audience we would go upon release. Our test audience particulary thought the music was a nice touch and worked well with the visuals. The beginnings loud sounds don't match the soundtrack but that doesn't matter because you suddenly expect a louder noise when it doesn't come people told us that it was quite trance like so they were hooked in. People said it was dreamy and quite surreal to the action and not like conventional horror at all but people did comment on the fact there was a build up in tempo so it was quite samey throughout which was a weak point for some people because they weren't scared by it. We as a group saw it as a more pyschological horror than thriller gore so we didn't mind that comment.

The majoirity of people said the mise-en-scen was good. Our use of lighitng was highlighted as a plus point, with most of it low key. We added than in during the editing process across the entirity of the trailer. We also adopted a red filter over one of the shots, this got mixed reviews some people thought it added an extra element whereas other didn't feel it matched the rest of the trailer. They thought the shot without the filter was good though. A high angled shot looking down onto the monster connoting that the protagonists might held hostage and unable to contact the outside world due to the presence of the beast. I did agree with the opinon that the red shot didn't fit. Our use of low key lighting mixed with it didn't really have the disired match. We were in a darkened forret so to have a bright red cover over a shot was odd but we were pleased that a few peers suggested that he did offer that extra element.
A shot that was compared to the Blair Witch Project which was one of the first successful virals to enter the horror genre was the shot in which we ran with the camera hand held to put the audience in the position of fear. The thought it fitted in well and was extremely effective.
A few people mentioned that they felt there was a lack of struture to the trailer as if they were having to search for the story themselves. I agree, although in the initial stages of production we did plan a story but felt that when we were editing together the final trailer that it dragged on and didn't really achieve a flowing movement that we were looking for. So shot were describe as 'needless' there was a shot of our male protagonist that was unneeded so on reflection we would have cut that out.
It was pointed out to us that our trailer didn't fit convential horror guidelines but that didn't matter because the trance effect meant that it would still enduce a bit of fear into the audience. We didn't involve much gore because we didn't think it was nessersary but some people felt we need it. I like the fact that its quite different from most trailers so liked the orginality of it a lot and think that overall it was a success and our feedback suggested that also which was pleasing.