Test Screening Feedback.

Task A:-

For this section, go though all your test screening feedback sheets and come up with an average grade for each aspect of MCCAT (the assessment objectives; what will ultimately determine your grade) based on these returns….

Media Language (A-E)
B

Conventions (A-E)
B

Creativity(A-E)
B

Attention to detail (A-E)
C


Technical Proficiency (A-E)
B

Task B:-

Then make a list of all the positive comments you received on your forms, ideally breaking them down into the different areas the class were asked to concentrate on….

Cinematography?
Good blurred over scenes.
Good aiming and blurry effects work well.
Good close ups.
Good use of camera conventions.

Mise en scene?
Good settings.
Good settings and good use of typical conventions of costumes e.g. the hood and knife.
Good scenery (location.)
Good use of imagination for the different types of shots used in the mise in scene for instance; picking up of the knife and killing etc.

Lighting?
Good lighting
Scenes done at night this follows the typical conventions
Some good lighting – and some good tilts done in the dark when needed
Lighting fits in well with the scenes
Good use of night lighting

Sound?
No sound used to date
Good when used
No sound make an emphasis on the aim of the trailer
When some sound was used it was clear and understandable

Conventions? Matching audience?
Yes, matches the main target audience
Fits in well with the horror / thriller genre
Good conventions

Miscellaneous?
Bit vague on the idea as a whole
More footage needed
Shots in a graveyard
Maybe someone running in a park with lots of trees (too make it seem like a forest)
Re-shot the news (have a more appropriate setting i.e. desk and a computer)

Task C:-

Next, focus on any constructive criticisms you received in the feedback, under the same headings as for the previous sections….

Cinematography?
Some scenes are too blurry
The scenes upstairs could be a bit clearer
Not enough close ups
Could have used a tripod – it seems to be as if the shooting of the house was done with a hand held camera
Needs a larger variety of shots and scenes
A bit too blurry sometimes

Mise en scene?
Need to obtain more scenes
Don’t film one of the scenes on an empty road but in a deserted area to fulfil the typical conventions of a horror/thriller trailer
Use tripod
Some shots are too blurry e.g. the shot of the house
Could have a larger variety of different types of shots
Tv report needs to redone

Lighting?
A bit too dark at times
Poor when she is walking into the room
Not bad

Sound?
Need more sound
Not that good
Needs to add a bit of sound to enable the audience know what is going on
Microphone needed

Conventions? Matching audience?
Improve news report make it seem more real
Looks like a horror/thriller trailer
Some scenes were recorded a bit unsteady

Miscellaneous?
Use more blurry scenes
Obtain more blurry scenes
Get more footage
Fast cuts to increase tension
Need scary music
Voiceovers
More blurs
Need a microphone for the news reporters’ scene
Don’t read off the paper when providing the news report

Task D:-

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, write up the suggestions and ideas about how to improve and what else could be added…..

What else would you (or the target audience) like to see in this production? (Scenes, sequences?)
Scary music in the background
More blurry scenes to not only create confusion but suspicion
More scenes based on the victim
Scary scenes of the victim’s eyes and of the victims themselves
More cliff hangers
More dialogue
More sounds which are appropriate to the main genre.

Suggestions for post-production / editing (music? Voiceover? Cutaways? Montage? Cross cutting? Titles? Slow motion?)
Scary background music, however it needs to be up to date music
Needs to have a scary voice over which will attract the audience
Need to have montage sequences of the main character getting ready to kill etc
Need to have the main character in slow motion when the main character is running and is about to kill her next victim
There will be one title where it will state the main name of the trailer, it will be red on a black background where from the writing it is dripping the colour red this reinforces the main genre of the trailer and the dripping of red represents blood.

By Hasnaa.