Finished Product

I apologise for the size of some of the intertitles, but this trailer was made to be viewed on a large screen. 

Evaluation Question 4

Scanner – this was used for scanning my storyboard.

Pros: Easy to use, saves you having to take photos of your work.

Cons: The scans are not always to the best quality, the scanning process is long and tedious (on my scanner at least).

Video Camera – I filmed my teaser trailer with this.

Pros: Easy to use, compact, the screen flips to almost any angle (you don’t have to be behind the camera to see what is happening).

Cons: Average quality picture, runs out of battery quickly.

Computer – this was used for various things during my project, such as recording my audio, blogging and creating my pitch PowerPoint.

Pros: Easy to use, makes life easier (don’t have to do research through books).

Cons: Crashes, lag.

Samson Go Mic – I used this piece of equipment to record my laugh audio.

Pros: Easy to use (as I am very familiar with the software), gives a good quality sound, compact, doesn’t require any additional equipment.

Cons: Buzzing sound after increase in volume.

Mac – this was used for editing my teaser trailer.

Pros: Easy to use, does the job.

Cons: Unable to add own fonts for titles, lack of decent edits/animations, can’t edit music tracks in any way once they are in iMovie.

Blogger – I used this website to create and update my media blog.

Pros: Easy to use, can personalise blog.

Cons: Sometimes it is difficult to place videos and images, Blogger will sometimes alter text that has been transferred from Word.

Youtube – this website was used for inspiration and embedding (on blog).

Pros: Quick and easy way of finding videos for information and inspiration, wide range of videos, helpful filtering system.

Cons: Some videos take a while to load.

Evaluation Question 3

The results of my audience feedback questionnaires were mainly positive, with the majority of people saying they enjoyed my teaser trailer and would watch the whole movie. In addition to this, most people felt that they got all the information they needed and everyone understood the genre I was going for. So, according to these comments, my teaser trailer was very successful and I should continue to work in this way, as people seem to enjoy it.

Things that worked well: Enigma codes, the build-up to the ending, Dutch tilts, pan up over shoulder, the ending itself, visual effects and the build-up of suspense/tension.

In terms of what could be improved, most people seem to think that I could have done a better job with the arrangement of my clips and intertitles (I’m guessing the clips at the beginning of the trailer became boring after a while), so this is something that I will work on in the future. I also got a comment about using better facial expressions, but as I am not a professional actress, I don’t really think this matters. I could’ve done a better job showing hatred towards the doll however, to fully demonstrate the relationship between the main characters.