AUDIENCE FEEDBACK TRAILER

Questionnaire on ‘The Wraith’

1.              What is your gender?

Male                                      Female

2.       How old are you?

15 – 18                  19 – 30                  30+

3.         Did you think ‘Phantom Production’ looks professional?

Yes               No

4.         Did you think the trailer successfully represented the horror genre?

Yes               No

5.         Did you think the sound of ‘Ring a round a Roses’ was effective at the beginning and end?

Yes               No

6.         Did you think the sound was effective throughout?

Yes               No

7.         Was ‘The Wraith’s’ make up effective? (Ghost Girl)

Yes               No

Rate from 1 – 5 how effective you think each were:

Sound

1        2        3        4        5

Cuts

1        2        3        4        5

Narrative of the Trailer

1        2        3        4        5

Make up and Costume of the Ghost Girl

1        2        3        4        5

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK RESULTS

I handed this questionnaire out to about 10 people.
I wanted the questions to be open as I wanted any feedback to be the persons own words and thoughts.


AUDIENCE FEEDBACK FOR POSTER

Would you wish to see this film in the cinema/DVD?
The main answers for this were:
Yes I would go see this at the cinema or I'd rather see it on DVD 

Most effective part of the poster:
Main answers were:
the image is striking, the whole thing catches my attention, 
the blood splatter really makes the title stand out 

What genre is the poster promoting? What makes you think this?
Everyone answered horror
Main answers as the why they thought this were:
Because of the blood splatter, the image, the headless doll, wraith - it means ghost? 

Overall opinion of the poster:
Main answers:
It's really good!, Just stands out really well, image is quality, really effective
looks like it could be a proper poster like one you see for any film 

What could have been improved?

Main answers were:
'The Wraith' writing - don't know whether it's supposed to be blurry or not?, the image could be bigger, the title could be bigger 

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK FOR MAGAZINE

Most effective part of the magazine:
Main answers:
image its quite long aswell so you can see a fair bit of her, the make is cool, the lettering 'meet the wraith' the style really stands out and stuff 

What genre is the magazine promoting? What makes you think this?
Like the film poster everyone gave more or less the same answer. Firstly everyone knew it was promoting horror. Secondly everyone stated it was the image and make up that made them believe it to be a horror.

Overall opinion of the magazine:
Main answers:
Main image really stands out, general layout is good, like the big bold heading 'Flikx' good layering aswell that makes it look more realistic, just looks good to be honest 

What could have been improved?
Main answers:
Some of the writings a bit blurry I think but again it might have meant to be like that, the image could have been closer up but then again it might work better how it is 

Do you think the price is reasonable? Would you buy it?

Main answers:
erm yeah i'd probably buy that issue don't think i'd buy it all the time though at that price, no i don't think i would i don't really buy film magazines, yeah i'd buy it over other film magazines other look too boring and formal like they're for older people 

What symbolic links make you think the poster/magazine are promoting the same film?
 Main answers:
The name, the headless doll held in the hand of the poster and in the magazine, the blood splatter, recommendation thing at the bottom of the poster it's kinda like the name of the magazine 

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK QUESTIONS

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK FOR POSTER

Would you wish to see this film in the cinema/DVD?

Most effective part of the poster:

What genre is the poster promoting? What makes you think this?

Overall opinion of the poster:

What could have been improved?

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK FOR MAGAZINE

Most effective part of the magazine:

What genre is the magazine promoting? What makes you think this?

Overall opinion of the magazine:

What could have been improved?

Do you think the price is reasonable? Would you buy it?

What symbolic links make you think the poster/magazine are promoting the same film?

FINAL POSTER

FINAL MAGAZINE

FINISHED TRAILER

 

Here it is!  and if there are any problems:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XEiFuHPYI

UPDATE!

Following the construction of our Production Company we have been editing our film:

So far we have inserted the green certificate at the beginning and the Production company. We then inserted a clip which is our establishing shot.

 Provides the beginning of a story for the audience, an image for the audiences head and an immediate expectation of what kind of genre the trailer could be due to the eerie, haunted impression the house gives. 

   We then added in text which we forgot to include on our storyboard which reads:

'YOU CAN NEVER BE SURE'

We then inserted our point of view clip of the camera looking over the wardrobe behind china dolls and watching the victim:

 We then inserted more text which the cut to the main character being on the phone:

We did however change things about our storyboard when in production as we felt that what we were putting together fitted better and looked more effective. 

After adding in the scene where our main character is on the phone and the ghost girl is first seen coming out of the wardrobe, we added more text: 

 As you can see the next piece of text read, 'following your every move'. This was then followed by the mirror scene where the ghost girl is then standing behind outside the window. This scene was followed by a succession of fast cuts which consisted of the clips and a white flashes which were achieved by inserted a white image and cutting down the play time to 1 second.

 After this the fast cuts stopped and were followed by the main character (Alex) screaming behind the wardrobe and banging a china doll. A clip of the ghost girl then followed which merged into the title 'The Wraith' followed by 'Coming Soon'

 SOUND: 

Sound was then added after we had completed the editing of our footage.

We trawled through the internet in order to find copyright free music we could use for our trailer. The first we found was one called incomputech.

  Through this website we were able to look for eerie music that would fit our trailer. You could browse by genre so we clicked horror to see what was on there.

Me and Alex found a sound clip called very 'very low note'

After hearing this we decided this would be effective to use at the beginning when we give our establishing shot. 

After inserted and played, we decided that this would be a lot more effective if used throughout the entire trailer.

  

After having a long look on this website we couldn't find anymore sound we thought would be effective enough for our trailer. Long deliberation we decided upon using a popular Children's rhyme as well as the low note to open our trailer.

We found a website called 'Free Sound Project' in which we found suitable sound that give a very spine chilling feel.

 This is how the website looked.

 

We also found other sounds on there like loud banging which we used for the succession of fast cuts and laughing for our production company.

Amongst using copyright free music, we also recorded short dialogue (for when Alex was on the phone) and heavy breathing which was used for the point of view scene on top of the wardrobe.