The group received feedback on their main production task from their class that helped improve it. Their trailer lacked shot variety and felt repetitive. They also got feedback on improving their title, re-filming shots, and changing their poster to better represent their film as a thriller rather than slasher. Their magazine front cover received positive feedback for its design elements and representation of genre conventions.

1. A2 Media Product Evaluation The Recluse Jamie Branston, Lyle Petts, Will Turner

2. Q3. Main Production Task Feedback Our main production task has come a long way from our first rough cut. Our audience feedback has helped our group develop our main task to a more professional standard, one particular example of this is when a member of the class suggested shortening a shot as it brought the pace of the piece right down and broke the entire flow of the production. We changed this one particular long shot into two smaller shots in order to keep the pace.. The weakest areas of our production include our lack in variety of different shot and this made the length of the trailer feel as though it dragged on as it appears very much as more of the same throughout.

3. Collecting Feedback When we showed our rough cut of our main task to the class there where mixed reviews; we had many positive aspects pointed out to take away from it, however the class did emphasise a few mistakes and areas that have room for improvement. the good points that the class highlighted to us were encouraging, the bad points we made note of in order to straighten out for our final cut. By showing our rough cut to the class at this point we were able to make good use of the feedback as the age of the class is the age of our target audience and is likely to be the age group our film trailer will most appeal to.

4. Main Production-Feedback(title) Our feedback from our class suggested that we need to change our title as it was cheesy and irrelevant. After a bit of brainstorming with the group we managed to produce a new title that gave a much more mature feel to the whole product, our new title had a black and greyish background with a kind of sepia effect and the title "The Recluse" appeared in black and lit up into a white in flash like approach and then returned to a backlit black, the change made the trailer appear much more professional

5. Main Production-Class Feedback After a class feedback session it became clear that certain shots needed to be re-filmed and that we need a wider variety of shots we set off to our filming locations the next weekend. luckily for us the weather was very dry but not too sunny giving the abandoned church a dim lit effect which we would have otherwise had to edit into the final cut as this was the desired effect we wanted in our production. secondly we needed to re-film a lot of footage that was damaged by the tape as the filming was overlaying footage we had filmed over and sounds and lines of previous footage was permanently imprinted on to our work during playback which was a shame and a real step back for our group, especially in terms of morale. Once we began re-filming we encountered no real problems and was satisfied with the improvements made on the original footage.

6. Film Poster Feedback Our poster was effective as a single element but we soon realised that although it portrayed a horror film well its convention were not quite appropriate towards our film trailer, to see if this was true we compared our audience response notes from the poster compared to the audience feedback noted from our production and found that most people felt our poster was that of a slasher horror and less of a more sophisticated horror thriller. In order to correct this we used decided to go for a more mature looking font and then presented our second draft to the class for more feedback; as expected the typography had a great effect on increasing the audience expectation of a film that was more complicated then a conventional slasher film. I do wish we had enough time do a photo shoot for the poster as the image on the front is a print screen of a shot from our footage which of course is not of the best quality and is definitively an area I would have like to improve.

7. Second Ancillary Task- Film Magazine Front Cover Our poster was effective as a single element but we soon realised that although it portrayed a horror film well its convention were not quite appropriate towards our film trailer, to see if this was true we compared our audience response notes from the poster compared to the audience feedback noted from our production and found that most people felt our poster was that of a slasher horror and less of a more sophisticated horror thriller. In order to correct this we used decided to go for a more mature looking font and then presented our second draft to the class for more feedback; as expected the typography had a great effect on increasing the audience expectation of a film that was more complicated then a conventional slasher film. I do wish we had enough time do a photo shoot for the poster as the image on the front is a print screen of a shot from our footage which of course is not of the best quality and is definitively an area I would have like to improve.

8. Film Magazine Front Cover-Feedback The majority of people said that they like how the images and title of the magazine overlay (bleeding in), the different locations of texts promoting other film etc (composition of design elements) and finally the different colours of fonts spread around the page. People agreed that our front cover followed the conventions of a typical film magazine such as Empire or Total Film and contained relevant side notes and sub titles that would be expected on a magazine. Our class feedback showed us that people believed our magazine front cover tied in nicely with our other tasks and kept up the consistent theme and emotions that was portrayed in them

9. Overview Of the three tasks I believe that our most professional looking product was the magazine front cover as we had used a photo shoot session in order to get a high resolution image in good quality for the front cover with a equally good Total Film font to bleed into and the general composition of the design elements appeared very neat. My favourite part of the magazine cover was the angle of the killer in the picture, kind of a high angle off set image with the knife in hand gave the impression that he could come at you from any angle, also the colour scheme of the magazine was very effective as we stuck to bold colours such as black, white, red and yellow for some of the sub titles.