How were our survey results helpful?

As you can see on my 'D' post for research for main product, we did a survey and we wrote up our results. I also put some of the answers into pie charts to display it nicely. Our survey results helped before we began to film our trailer because it's always important to know what the audience is looking for. There would be no point in making a teaser trailer that wouldn't interest the target audience. So when planning our trailer and drawing up the storyboard we took into account the results from our survey.

Risk assessment

My House - A large section of the filming was done inside, this carried no particular risks in itself apart from the fact it was dark! However, the small section of filming we did outside in her back garden carried the risk that some of the ground was very wet and slippy that we found particularly prominent in a fast moving shot! (Below - The set for most of our filming)
In A Car, Outside & In The Studio - Not only did we film in a moving car, which clearly carries some minor risks, we also went outside to film in a deserted private place in the dark, which could bring risks of tripping hazards as well as strangers getting in the way of filming etc. The studio at college was our last set of filming, this carried no significant risks and was a safe secure environment to be filming in.

Draft Teaser Trailer.

This is the draft of our teaser trailer.
We recieved feedback on this which can be seen on another post.
We have got quite a bit to work on and we are hoping that our final product will tick all the boxes.

Feedback

After previewing all of the other group's trailers we all gave each other good and bad feedback before making changes to our work.

These are the results we recieved.

Good:

• Fast cuts
• Shows a certain amount of information but doesn't give the plot away.
• Scene in the studio
• Dark shots/night time
• Shot on the stairs/at the mirror
• Screaming
• Acting
• Establishing shot of location
• Trapped in a haunted house
• Headlight shot
• Lighting
• Tragic past coming back to haunt you
• Mysterious
• Hand sliding down the door shot

Bad:

• Shot of main girl at the sink
• Don't understand the relevance of last shot.
• Delete the talking bit at the end that shouldn't be there
• Improve text/titles
• Lack of variety of shot types
• Sound could vary
• Production company logo needed
• Unsure about the plot
• People crawling
• Need more titles about the other people in the trailer. E.g the ghosts etc.
• Unclear shots
• Not very pacey
• Hand sliding shot was too long

Storyboard

We began this storyboard before filming. We had to change some of the shots and ideas due to casting issues. We changed the storyline of our trailer in order to make it possible to film.

Idea for trailer.

The idea of the plot of our trailer.

A woman is living alone in her childhood house where her carers lived before they died. When she was younger, however, she spent a lot of time locked away in solitary confinement because she suffered from behavioural disorders. Whilst she was locked away a spiritualist removed her 'demons' to make her a happy normal child. When she gets older and is living in the house on her own she begins to get haunted by a demon made up of her disorders, torment and anger as a child. The trailer will include shots where she is walking around her house and it turns into the room which she was kept locked away in as a child. We will also use mirror shots to show the demon in the mirror and to show her torment.

Trailer Idea - Final Idea

Our initial concept of the film has had to be changed due to casting issues. Because we are unable to find a younger girl to play our main characters inner child we have decided to change the idea as such:

The confinement cell the main character was in as a child is posessed by a demon.
Once someone leaves the cell they soon die within their own home of unknown causes
Every new person to leave the cell has been haunted by the posessed spirits of those to die before.
The main character experiences poltergeist activity and sees aparitions of the past spirits in her home.
She loses her certainty within her own home and hides in her room that changes back into the cell. She is never seen again but the ending scene shows her in the cell with all those who had been in it before, and she is dead too.
We have easily adapted our storyline to suit our storyboarding and shot concepts. Although we will have to work some more to decide what characters will be using, it will not change our idea much so we can still do everything we have already intended to do.