The main changes to my film trailer involve the music. Initially we had chosen the track 'Letting Go' ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MIDmPMlbcg ) to play during the scene where we show a crime scene, however over time we realised that while this type of music suited that particular scene it did not seem suitable for a thriller trailer as a whole. Because of this, we decided to replace it with the tracks 'Chaos' ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZTCRQHlGD4 ) and the first portion of 'Death Match' ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvNlvtvJdBo ).
'Chaos' has a very haunting/intimidating element to it which is appropriate for our film trailer's plot while 'Death Match' sounds very determined, which matches with our two main characters' drive to solve the case integral to the story.
After sharing my film trailer on Facebook as well as YouTube the overall feedback I received turned out to be positive. Though there were some suggestions for areas that could be improved on (E.g. improving the film quality), due to the limitations in our ability as well as equipment we are unable to do them.
Examples of feedback -
- From this particular individual, they suggested that we shorten our trailer in order to reduce the risk of the audience losing focus (our trailer ended up being 2 minutes 29 seconds long). While I understand their concern (keeping the audience's attention throughout is vital with a trailer), according to my research the majority of theatrical thriller trailers are around 2 minutes long (E.g. The Girl on the Train was also 2 minutes 29 seconds long and Shutter Island was 2 minutes 23 seconds long).Film Poster
Changes to my film poster mostly involved making the text (E.g. title and credits) central so that it would better meet film poster conventions and to change the release date (it was different to the one we had officially agreed with later on).
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Plus I had originally wanted to have plain black background but then I was recommended that I change it to a crime moodboard so that it would fit with the character I put on the poster; the ambitious journalist Peter Stone.
Another suggested improvement was to rearrange the text slightly so that it would not obstruct the main image.
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Film Magazine
As for my magazine cover I had to alter the name of a 'featured' film three times so that it not seem cheesy or boring. Eventually I settled for 'Ophiophobia' which is the phobia of snakes, which suited the image nicely.
Another change was I had to rearrange some of the text (to fill in some blank spaces) and to alter the colours so that I would have a more established colour scheme. Plus I had initially included real-life titles such as Ghost in the Shell and The Circle, therefore I had to remove them.
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