3. Genre. Audience feedback from screenshots. From the feedback I have received from my target audience I have found that my teaser trailer fits the conventions of a horror, I needed to make sure that my audience believed that it was a horror. I knew that I needed to get the audience feedback as I was very close to my trailer and felt it was important to get feedback from people that hadn’t seen anything to do with it before. However, I have been told that it doesn’t follow as many obvious conventions of psychological thrillers, this is because I believe those elements needed to be more subtle, and would be difficult to include in my trailer without giving away too much of the storyline.
4. Genre. This is a screen shot from the trailer of the horror film ‘One Missed Call’ . This shot shows a stereotypical shot from thriller trailers such as the one I’ve included in mine. The way this shot conforms to my genre of psychological horror by the look on my main character’s face. It relates more to the horror side of as the character’s face looks scared and worried. The location is also quite conventional for horror films as it is an abandoned forest location, this is effective for horror films as it keeps all the focus on the main character, the one being terrorised. To conform to this convention I have only used shots of the main character in my teaser trailer.
