3. • ‘Awesome should be proud yourself’
Social networking
• ‘It's really good!, you should be proud of
comments: yourself!’
I put the link to my trailer • ‘This is really good!’
on my Facebook and
• ‘It's amazing :D’
Twitter pages and these
were the comments that I • ‘Well done you’
received: • ‘This is amazing :) I love the way the
lettering fades in as the trailer ends :)’
• ‘Wow that's awesome I hate scary things
like that so I cringed lol hahaha 5★’
• ‘OMG it looks amazing :D’
• ‘Wow! This is pretty amazing! I love all of
the special effects!’
• ‘This is a must watch, it's brilliant!!’
• ‘This is a must watch, watch it or you'll
regret it’
4. Constructive comments
Reasons why I didn’t make these
What viewers recommended: changes:
• ‘When Nina goes to look in her I did not make any of these
bag the ghosts hand could changes due to the fact that
these suggestions were put to
have come out of it or perhaps me after the final edit, so due to
it could have touched the girl sheer lack of time I couldn't
on her shoulder or hand’ make any of these changes.
• ‘I think that there should have However, if I had have had more
time, I would like to have
been more interaction between included more clips of the ghost,
the ghost and the friends’ more interaction between the
• ‘I think there should have ghost and the two girls during
been more clips of the ‘ghost’ the montage especially and
finally I think I would have added
hand (the transparent hand) as more of the transparent ghost
I think those scenes were effect as this was the part of the
really effective’ trailer that has been mentioned
most when I have asked people
their opinion.
6. Viewers comments: • ‘I think this magazine front cover is
mysterious and interesting’
I asked a group of people
what they thought of my • ‘I think this cover is good, I would buy this
magazine and these were magazine based on the way it looks’
their comments: • ‘This is really good, looks like real magazine
cover’
• ‘Looks interesting, the picture of the ghost
makes it appear mysterious’
7. Constructive comments:
Reasons why I didn’t make these
What viewers recommended: changes:
• ‘I think the magazine would Although I respect the recommendations
made I personally prefer the black and
benefit from some colour,
white and I think it fits with the film
maybe red or bright blue’ being shown – a horror. In addition to
• ‘I personally would have this I did try out several different
colours throughout the draft process
preferred a clearer image as
and no other colours seemed to work
opposed to the blurred effect’ as well as the black and white. As for
the comment about the image being
blurred I wanted the ghost to be seen
on the cover, as it is an image that
would be associated with the trailer,
but by making it blurred it does not
reveal her face in full – the aim of this
being for people to view the trailer in
order to find out what she looks like
and what the blurred effect could be
masking.
9. Viewers comments: • ‘Wow looks really convincing – like a real
poster’
I also asked my friends and
family to view my poster • ‘I really like how realistic this looks, even
and these are their the words at the bottom look like a real
comments: poster’
• ‘This poster is really mysterious looking
and makes me want to find out more
about the film it is advertising’
• ‘I would definitely watch the film the
poster is showing’
• ‘I think having the ghosts face appear
blurring is a good effect’
• ‘I really like this poster, I think it looks
good’
• ‘This is fantastic!’
10. Constructive comments:
Reasons why I didn’t make these
What viewers recommended: changes:
• ‘I think the poster would look The reasons are the same as with the
magazine. I personally prefer the
better with some colour on it’ black and white and I think looks
• ‘I’m not that keen on the out effective and fits with the genre of
film being shown - a horror, and
of focus image, I would black and white are two colours I
personally prefer the image to most associate with that genre. As
for the comment about the image
be clearer’ being blurred I wanted the ghost
to be seen on the cover, as it is an
image that would be associated
with the trailer, but by making it
blurred it does not reveal her face
in full but by making it blurred it
does not reveal her face in full –
the aim of this being for people to
view the trailer in order to find out
what she looks like and what the
blurred effect could be covering.
11. Overall...
I have learnt that although people seemed to like
my trailer, magazine and poster there were still
some areas of improvement.
According to my audience my trailer could have
been better if it had featured more of the ghost,
especially more of her appearing transparent.
As for the poster and magazine the people I asked
said another colour would have improved their
appearance rather than them just being black
and white.
