LO4: Evaluation

Our trailer was created to promote our short film 'The Sixteenth' the narrative follows a struggling detective who is working on a case about a serial killer in the fictional town of Stompton, he is analysing the murders but he also is finding it very difficult to get anywhere on the case, he is an alcoholic as he goes to alcohol whenever he's struggling. Using notes left behind at the murder scenes, which contain information that only the detective could know. we used gradual speed in our trailer to. build up tension, to do this we edited clips shorter and shorter.

We have included music in our trailer  to build tension which will be used to influence the audience’s emotions and may make them want to watch the , we will use suspenseful music to really get the right effect on the audience. We will also use sound effects to create verisimilitude within the trailer and make it seem realistic. To edit this we used shot cuts, this is a popular convention of this type of trailer, by doing this we matched the visuals with the audio as when the music got faster so did the clips. We did this to build up tension and pace, this is a strength as it engages to audience more and may make them what to see the film in order to see what happens. 

Another strength of our trailer was the ending, I feel this ending with the static screen and “officer down” makes the trailer end of a cliff hanger, this is important in thriller trailers as it makes the audience want more which makes them want to watch the film.

We could improve this trailer by adding more scenes to create a storyline, we did our trailer in a non-linear format as we didn’t want the audience to understand what happens in the film although this can be confusing. By adding more of the narrative, especially in the beginning, it may help the audience connect more with the narrative and therefor want to watch the film.

We could have also chosen a different backing track for our trailer as it is quite over powering, this can mean the audience is distracted instead of paying attention and therefor not understanding the trailer as we intended.

Overall I feel this trailer fits the purpose of promoting for the sixteenth as it engages the audience, although we could improve it in a few areas inorder to make them understand it more.