Media evaluation part 2

My evaluation is also on the disk which is a lot clearer so that you can see the texts and images more clearly.

Media eavaluation question 1

Class feedback

Today in our media lesson we watched everyones trailers and music videos. This was so that we could get feedback for our trailers.

Here is the feedback for our trailer

1. Everyone liked the trailer the camera angles (especially the handheld camera shots and the low camera angles) used.
2. They liked how the narrative gave you a false scare. This was when the boys play the trick on the girls. It gives a sense of building up a suspense as to what is going to happen.
3. The different colours in the flash back shots made the shots stand out as they showed glimpses of the 'nightmare' to come.
4. The shot of the killer walking past the camera was good as they thought it was effective by leaving you wanting to know what happens and where the killer is going.
5. They thought the sound effects were good and fitted in well with the whole trailer, they especially liked the heavy breathing,
6. and overal our teachers thought it was a huge development being that it looked more professional than our first draft of the trailer.

Some criticisms/suggestions

1.  to put some music over the shot of the cast list as there is currently no music there;
2. to put some credits at the end because most trailers have theirs there; 

 We will discuss as a group and decide if we need to make these changes.

Changes to the Trailer

This is the trailer with the changes made to make it more of a trailer than a short film... We asked some of the class what they thought of our trailer now and felt it was a lot better than before.. We changed the trailer by editing out the killer in order to make more suspense as to what happens next, as well as this we re ordered the clips so that you don't know what happens next and in which order the movie goes in. we found this to appeal more to our audience and draw them in .


After making these changes we thought that changing the colours of some of the shots would make it more effective . When we'd finished our second draft we thought that it was too bright and that it all looked a bit muddled. So we changed the lighting on the some of the shots to show that they happen later in the film. This makes the trailer look scary and intresting instead of having the same colours all the way through. We changed the lighting by changing the brightness and contrast of the colours which made it almost black and white but with some colour still seeping through. We will show this to the class and see if there are any futhur changes that we could add to improve the trailer.

Comments on the first draft of our trailer.

We got feedback on our trailer 

• From our media teacher Ms Taylor, she told us that he trailer was more of a short film as it told the whole story of the filmbut in a condensed version.
• Other members of our class said that it was too predictable because it clearly shows the teenagers getting killed which gets rid of the thrill and suspense of trailers which draws the audience to watch the movie.
• Mrs Taylor told us to mix up the shots, make them shorter as they were too long. we had to cut out any shots showing the murderer as this would create more suspense.
• So our group spent two hours playing around with the older version and then we showed it to the rest of our class and our other teacher Mrs Brady to get some more feedback.
• They all said that it was a lot better than our first version.
•  They also said that it is more of a trailer now because it is not put together in chronological order but randomly placed, so it is exciting and leaves you wanting to watch the film.
• They all loved how you can't really see the murderer anymore, because this creates the suspense of what is going to happen and leaves you wondering what happens next.
• One comment given was that we could put a voiceover in to the trailer as this would make it scarier, so we will think about whether it is possible to put it in our trailer.

My first trailer draft

We will show this to people and ask for advice on what they think needs to be changed and how we could improve this trailer to make it more intresting;

Editing our Movie

We started editing our movie on the 8th of March and the 10th of March.  We have been able to play around with the laptop, in order to learn how to use it and transform all the shots we had taken into a thrilling horror trailer. We learnt how to upload our movie on to the laptop and then by using the cropping, editing and diferent transitions we put the trailer into a suitable order. Whilst doing this we have been able to try out different sound effects and music to complete the trailer. We have not competly finished the trailer but have shown some of our group who have given us some advice on what to change and how to make it more effective.

We continued to edit our trailer again on the 12th of March working on sound effects and adding in the titles that will appear during our movie trailer.

On the 15th March we added in a voice over of heavy breathing we also took in some advice from our teacher to edit this scene so that it jumps between the group and seeing it from behind the killer, to make the trailer a bit more interesting. we then added in a bang just before the "what was that" to make it more effective and for the audience to wonder what is going to happen . We then completed our trailer and got opinions for our first draft.