Evaluation task 3: What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

We have learnt from our audience feedback that overall the opinions of our friends, family and teachers that the trailer was generally enjoyable and well received with most people; they said that after watching the trailer they wanted to see the full film if there was one, they liked the camera work, the various locations and the structure of our trailer as we managed to have a good build up of tension, therefore we captivated our audiences attention. However we were criticised quite a few times over the duration of our trailer (being too long) however, we did our research and made sure we could support our choice in the duration of the trailer and the average length of a film trailer is 2 minutes and 30 seconds, then we researched further and discovered films of the same genre have roughly the same timings if not longer than ours.

 Also our repetitiveness of the shots with the clock was done on purpose as a constant reminder that time is running out for all the people in the story, it keeps the audience on edge as it suggests the inevitability of time passing, the clock is there to foreshadow that bad things will happen. The fast paced scene with the prisoner is to reflect that time is passing over a long period of time rather like a time lapse, this clearly says to our audience that he's been in there for an extremely  long time (roughly ten years). By having this scene it also emphasises that he's enclosed in a small environment with nothing to do and gradually becoming more furious and upset.

The music was very difficult to edit as there were gaps in the trailer as we were making it due to the gradual process of the filming, but we did the best that we could do with it and we wanted to make sure we had three different sections of the trailer so we had three different tracks. One of the tracks was replaced by a clock noise for the climax and the other two tracks were there as a the beginning and middle sections of the trailer.

When it came to the quality of the trailer we could not help this as we only had access to the school equipment but we did our best and we spent at least over three months planning and creating the entire product and it was worth it as the feedback from everyone we knew was across the board very positive.

To conclude, the feedback we received has opened our eyes to all the flaws within the trailer that we hadn't noticed before but all of it was helpful and will be taken into consideration for any other media projects. We have done this to the best of our ability by drawing inspiration from other films such as SE7EN, Zodiac, Nightcrawler and Silence of the Lambs and we believe we have made a decent attempt of looking more like a professional trailer, but we know where are weaknesses lie.