Audience Feedback

Final Trailer Audience Feedback


We posted our trailer on numerous social networking sites to gain audience feedback to see if our trailer was successful with our target audience. Here are some of the comments made.

Planning

Final Poster Design

We put all our poster designs on facebook and asked for feedback on each one. We also asked people to vote for their favourite poster and this one came out as the most popular. 

Through research we saw that many posters also contained the date and website. The sizes of these poster varied depending on what location they were shown in. The poster below we thought would be shown on a bus stop:

As well as this design for a bus stop we rearranged our poster design shown above, making it horizontal which is ideal for a billboard: 

Deconstruction

Website Deconstruction - Megan Is Missing

http://meganismissing.com/

Looking at another influential film website, we looked closely at the layout of the page. The tabs were placed on the edge in a simple white font. The image is the same that is seen on the films poster. To create a similar effect, we used the same background image on our blog and our website. We also placed our tabs on the side to create a similar layout. The films website also has two opening pages. An introduction page is first seen with the image of the young girl sat at the computer desk. However as you enter the website the girl is shown to have disappeared. We used a similar idea creating an introduction page before entering our main homepage,showing a short clip from our trailer. 

                           

Research

Poster Research and Deconstruction

 

One of the posters for "Megan Is Missing" influenced our initial poster design.


The central focus of the poster is the computer and the young girl who is in the centre looking at the image on the screen. The editor of the poster was able to create this effect by darkening the surrounding edges. We created a similar effect by making the central focus of our poster our hanging scene on the computer screen which relates to the genre of a gothic drama.

Research

Mise en Scene and Camera Angle Research


With the majority of our trailer being shot with a webcam we looked at specific shots from the film "Megan is Missing". These shots helped us design the mise en scene of the teenagers bedroom, our 'victim'.


For example the young girl is shown to be putting on make up so we had our character style her hair in front of the webcam, making herself pretty before being seen on webcam.

We also dressed our character in a plain vest top similar to the one shown in the image with natural looking make up. 

To show the majority of our typical teenagers bedroom, we placed our tripod so that it was tilted towards our character so that the audience would feel part of the action. 

Deconstruction

Megan Is Missing - Trailer Camera Shots Deconstruction

As well as a similar narrative, "Megan is Missing" also acted as an influence in the type of shots we carried out. Due to the significance of the narrative being based on social networking we decided to use a webcam as well as a video camera. The film was influential as it featured an unknown online predator similar to ours. As well as the webcam shots it also contained a montage sequence of news stories towards the end. We wanted to create a similar effect so we used shots of social networking sites instead.

Research

Existing Narratives


Similar to "Trust" being made in 2011, another film was made in the same year called "Megan Is Missing". 

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