Tutor feedback on prelim trailer

• Good use of Psycho style text movement
• Justify not using a tripod in the first scene - it looks like she is being watched creating a voyer effect
• Flipped images crosses the line and should be taken out
• Appropriate use of sounds; the rain is very effective ,typewriter when type writer font s shown, the use of a high pitched sound at the villains image and prolonged silence at the end.
• good choice of fonts

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What did you think of the…?

1.       Text? Good storyline although confused a little

2.       Lighting? Bit too dark at the beginning

3.       Sound and its effect? The sound is good – gives the effect of a scary scenario

4.       Quality? Very good

5.       Editing (how the shot are put together)? There were pauses in some parts and couldn’t make out the connection from the classroom to outside

6.       Your positives of the trailer It kept me interested and intrigued

7.       Your criticisms of the trailer Didn’t really understand the purpose.

feedback 1

What did you think of the…?

1.       Text? ok Big Easy to read,
2.       Lighting? bit dark
3.       Sound and its effect? voice bit lost in quality  and sound effects  work well
4.       Quality? great quality overal only let down by dark scenes
5.       Editing (how the shot are put together)? editing ok,should be lot more creative and tighter no bad shots to be seen by audience
6.       Your positives of the trailer- great first effort, find a suspense errie music to build up to chase and view results.
7.       Your criticisms of the trailer- Lack of variety of shot.look and analyse similar horror trailer see their number of shots.

collecting feedback on prelim trailer

Hello can you help my group evaluate our practice Media Studies trailer?

Please watch the 1 minute video with sound and in short answer what you thought of some of the factors. Thank you

What did you think of the…?

1.       Text?

2.       Lighting?

3.       Sound and its effect?

4.       Quality?

5.       Editing (how the shot are put together)?

6.       Your positives of the trailer

7.       Your criticisms of the trailer

NMBEC A2 Media - Dont look behind you (Halloween parody)

Narrative

Michael, James, Ella, Luke and Jordan have taken the final of their A levels and are not happy with how they went, they need these results desperately otherwise they will not get into the desired university of their choice, the year that they choose.

That same evening they decide as a group to go back into the school after hours to see if they can get their exam papers back and change some of the answers. Everyone is all for it other than Jordan. She is typically known within the group as the “good one”.  She doesn’t want to go back in to get the answers as she thinks that they should all accept their honest result and deal with whatever comes with it. Predictably, the others do not agree and she is resultantly talked into sneaking into the school to change answers.

Michael, James use a metal pole to unhook the latch at the back door of the school. Luke is seen to be making jokes little to the amusement of the girls. The papers they are looking for are kept in a locked office. They set off down a corridor to the caretaker’s office to find the keys, and are disturbed by eerie atmosphere and flickering lights. They are taken off the correct route by Luke who has heard rumors the caretaker had a ‘creepy’ key shed at the back of the field. They are convinced to go this way despite much deliberation.

The shed stands alone isolated from the rest of the school, and is completely chained up, so Ella uses a hair pin to open the padlock and it opens with a frightening creek, to the sheer disturbance of Jordan.  Who screams loudly but is quickly silenced by her friends. To their surprise there is little in the caretaker’s shed, one filing cabinet a table and a small wooden box. The bareness of the shed baffled the group as they didn’t see any sign of keys or anything that didn’t have a layer of dust on. Jordan takes this as a sign to abandon the mission. Nonetheless the rest of the group begins to search trough drawers looking for a master key. Luke mutters something about a lack of mobile phone signal. They begin to become frustrated as the fear of what they were actually doing finally begins to set in.

Jordan had been drawn towards the box, as she noticed it was unlatched. She sat in front of the box and began to rummage through. Nothing that she found really seemed to make sense; she found a locket, some birthday cards, a black and white group photo of students and an old perfume bottle. She noticed several single photos that had the eyes on the photo scratched out. She called for her friends immediately and shared what she had found, the group looked at the items and examined them closely, and they couldn’t understand why these almost demonic looking items were kept in their caretaker’s office. They also couldn’t make out who was in the photos. Then it suddenly dawned on them that they had never known the identity of the school caretaker. Jordan then comes across an old piece of and feels energy about this particular item. The group look on intrigued by the writing as Jordan reads;

He despises teens because they‘re loud and bad

Many years at this school have made him go mad.

If you think you can get away, you’re very wrong

The secret of this shed won’t stay hidden for long.

He’ll wring your neck if you scream and shout

Wonder who he is? You’ll soon find out.

Now he’s escaped to settle the score

Because you forgot to close the shed door.

As Jordan read the last line the door banged loudly unlatched in the wind and Ella gasps deafeningly. The gang looks around at each other afraid. They decide to put back everything as found it and leave quickly ignoring what they had read and ultimately getting more scared by the second. They did all of this successfully and reached the corridor that had lead them outside. While there they hear footsteps coming from all around them. The footsteps were intrusive but the group could tell that they only belonged to one person. The footsteps were now louder and were accompanied by the sound of a screaming woman. This quickly prompted screaming from a terrified Ella followed by a failed attempt to calm her down by the Michael. All five of them run to the nearest exit and began franticly trying to open it. They it is locked. A dead silence dropped upon all of them and James utters the words “this door was not locked when we came in”. The startling sound of shattered glass comes soon after prompting more whimpering as the lights cut out. The group makes a run for it, ending up hiding in different rooms within the school.

By now it really has become a full on mouse chase, but scarily it is not evident yet what exactly is chasing them. James unfortunately upon trying to reach a hidden destination, is hit over the head with the same pole that he used to open the door at the beginning and killed. Ella stumbles across James’ body as she is making her run for it and lets out an almighty scream. She sprints away to find the others but when she finds Michael and brings him back to the location where James is, he is nowhere to be found. The smell of bleach suggests that someone has attempted to clean up the blood stained floor.

Michael runs back to the caretaker’s office in the hope of maybe finding the keys that can open the doors and free the group, but he too is beaten to death by a mysterious figure. One by one they all begin to go. Ella is next when she tries to escape through the window, and she is shortly followed by Luke who was trapped alone.

Jordan is the last one left hiding cleverly from the killer. Jordan recalls seeing an emergency phone in the shed and begins her frightening mission to reach it coming across a dying Michael. She successfully calls the police but her life is immediately endangered as she is confronted by the caretaker; she is whacked over the head with the bloody pole. She appears to be dead and the killer goes to retire but we see she is alive. She reaches for the box and hits him over the head with it. After knocking him out, she escapes into the hands of the police. She tries to explain the caretaker is attacking her but the police are unconvinced. They search the real caretaker’s modern office and find nothing. They cannot find any trace of the dead bodies she is claiming that there are, she is warned that wasting police time is a serious offence. As Jordan is driven away in the police car the caretaker’s silhouette can be seen standing on the school field watching them.

Narrative 1st draft

Michael, James, Ella, Luke and Jordan have taken the final of their A levels and are not happy with how they went, they need these results desperately otherwise they will not get into the desired university of their choice, the year that they choose.

That same evening they decide as a group to go back into the school after hours to see if they can get their exam papers back and change some of the answers. Everyone is all for it other than Ella. She is typically known within the group as the “good one”.  She doesn’t want to go back in to get the answers as she thinks that they should all accept their honest result and deal with whatever comes with it. Predictably, the others do not agree and she is resultantly talked into sneaking into the school to change answers.

Michael, James and Luke use a metal pole to unhook the latch at the back door of the school. The papers they are looking for are kept in the caretaker’s office. It has been known to the students of the school for years that this is where they are located but no one has ever dared to go in search for them, this for a reason that is yet to be known to the students. They successfully get into the school and find their way to the caretaker’s office; it is completely chained up so Jordan uses a hair pin to open the padlock and it opens with a frightening creek, to the sheer disturbance of Ella.  Who screams loudly but is quickly silenced by her friends. To their surprise there is little in the caretaker’s room, one filing cabinet a table and a small wooden box. The size of the filing cabinet baffled the group as they didn’t think the exam papers of an entire sixth form could possibly fit into this cabinet.

They began to search through the files, well all the student excluding Ella. While the others were frantically searching through the cabinet with the evident fear of what they were actually doing finally beginning to set in, Ella had been drawn towards the box, as she noticed it was open. She sat in front of the box and began to rummage through. Nothing that she found really seemed to make sense; she found a locket, some birthday cards, some photos and an old perfume bottle. She noticed that the eyes in the photo had been scratched out. She called for her friends immediately and shared what she had found, the group looked at the items and examined them closely, and they couldn’t understand why these almost demonic looking items were kept in their caretaker’s office. They also couldn’t make out who was in the photos. Then it suddenly dawned on them that they had never known the identity of the school caretaker, so decided for sake of solution that the man in the pictures was him. But that didn’t give any reason as to why the woman in all of the photos was scratched.

The group as a whole now began to get more and more freaked out as none of what was going on made any sense. As they had thought, the filing cabinet was not big enough to hold the exam papers so their search had been in vain. They decided to put back everything they had found and leave quietly because they were ultimately getting more scared by the second. They did all of this successfully and locked the caretakers office back. While they were leaving they heard footsteps coming from all around them. The footsteps were intrusive but the group could tell that they only belonged to one person. The footsteps were now louder and were accompanied by the sound of a screaming woman. This quickly prompted screaming from both Ella and Jordan followed by a failed attempt to calm them both down by the boys. All five of them ran for the nearest exit and began franticly trying to open it. They realized it was locked. A dead silence dropped upon all of them and James utters the words “this door was not locked when we came in”. The startling sound of shattered glass comes soon after prompting more screaming. The group makes a run for it, knowing only to hide in different rooms within the school.

By now it really has become a full on mouse chase, but scarily it is not evident yet what exactly is chasing them. James unfortunately upon trying to reach a hidden destination, is hit over the head with the same pole that he used to open the door at the beginning and killed. Jordan stumbles across James’ body as she is making her run for it and lets out an almighty scream. She sprints away to find the others but as she finds them to bring them back to the location where James is, he is nowhere to be found. The smell of bleach suggests that someone has attempted to clean up the blood stained floor.

Michael runs back to the caretaker’s office in the hope of maybe finding the keys that can open the doors and free the group, but he too is beaten to death by a mysterious figure. One by one they all begin to go. Jordan is next when she tries to escape through the window, and she is shortly followed by Luke.

Ella is the last one left and has to figure out a way to hide from a figure that up until now she has not been able to see because of the darkness. She goes back into the caretaker’s office and tries to make sense of the things that she saw in there. She is followed in by the figure and smacked over the head with the pole. She appears to be dead but she is not. She reaches for the box and hits him over the head with it. She was the only member of the group to be carrying a mobile phone. She reaches for it, leaves the caretakers office to make the call to the police. One they arrive they cannot find any trace of the dead bodies she is claiming that there are. Forensics couldn’t find any traces of blood, and the figure or the murder weapon could not be found. She is escorted home by the police and warned that wasting police time is a serious offence.