Teacher feedback

Trailer:

"Instead of recording the characters to tell the story of what has happened the girl Leila, include shots of what happened and where it was. This would link this to later on within the trailer where you go and investigate in the same place. Better to show than it is to tell."

" The shot needs to be lighter where the villain is walking towards the house. The only time you can see it is when you are watching it in pitch black. This would work okay if you were watching the trailer in the cinema, however at a home as an advert the lighting needs to be lighter in order to make it clearer."

"Try to market the mask used and make it a key feature within the film. Do some research into the history of them types of masks to try and find a way to help it to increase the awareness of your film. You can then use it as a give away in your magazine and the poster shall then have a bigger effect seen as though the mask is the main image."

"Check that all text included in the trailer is the same size and is centered in the frame. I believe just one is slightly off center but I like the choice of font and the fact you have placed in on a static background linking to the use of handheld cameras."

Magazine:

"The masthead needs to be bigger as at the moment there are other features on here that are bigger. In your research you look at the layouts of magazines and you can see that the masthead should be the biggest feature on a cover to catch the attention of the audience."

"I am not a big fan of the white blocks that your text is in, I think it would be better if the text was just on the image and was white instead."

"The text that is above your feature films, I think needs to be below instead."

"You could try using the mask again to help promote this by giving away a free copy of your mask and using is as a buff feature."

Poster:

"The poster looks really good and I do not think any thing really needs changing on it. Just double check everything lines up neatly."

"Don't forget to add your other groups members production company so that you have both of them on there."

"Make sure you all have the same release date for your film or simply have coming soon on there instead." 

"If you market the mask, like I suggested when discussing your trailer, this should make this even more effective."