Trailer Evalutation

I asked 3 different people to analyse my final trailer and feedback on their thoughts and suggestions about it, there was a mixture of positive and constructive points but i felt that overall the majority were positive which definitely fills me with confidence.

Some of the most pointed out positive aspects of the trailer included the text, almost everyone I've shown including the three people that gave proper feedback and others have said that they liked the use of text and also the effects used on the text. They say that it looks professional and certainly enhances the feel of an action film rather than distract from it. This is pleasing as it was the effect i was going for, with the contrast of the clean silver text, and the dirty lens effect from the optical flare. If i was to redo it the only change i would make would be perhaps exploring moving the text in 3D space rather than just left and right.

Another positive aspect was the music used, most of the people that viewed it liked the fact that the music goes against the general conventions for action trailer music. It was different however still managed to enhance the feel rather than take from it, and made it feel more original. I'm really happy with the choice of music and probably wouldn't change it if I were doing it again.

Some of weaknesses that were pointed out included the fact that some of the footage was shakey, there was intention for the footage to have a shakey hand-held effect to it however due to lack of equipment some of it appeared more unstable than would have been preferred, the same goes for the lighting of the footage. I wanted it to have a darker feel and deliberately used lights to create high contrast, however due to the low quality of lights being used they didn't particularly give off enough light than what would have been desirable. If doing it again i would make sure to organise myself better so that i can gain access to better equipment and lighting.