Feedback

Once the footage had been filmed and into the editing process I showed a group of people what was edited so far and asked if they liked it, if so why? what could be added and what could be changed? This was because the people watching our trailer were our target audience therefore listening to their advice would make it more appealing.
Overall they liked it they said the build up was good, however once the action starts it was over too quickly with the final shot running into the camera, it didn't have a solution at the end like many horrors, referring back to Freitags triangle of equilibrium etc. As I felt the same I sort after a camera to add more footage on the end to come to a solution, or an apparent ending which hides the mystery of the story still so it draws in the audience. This bit of footage was the disposing of the knife, creating questions in the audiences mind, did he kill her? Why's he throwing the knife away?

Our film was originally called Agorophobia, however I thought it was a bit of a mouthful to say so once again I turned to my audience firstly I asked them if they liked the name, many responded with what does that mean? Agorophobia is defined as having a phobia of wide open un familiar places, however it can also be described as the fear of no easy means of escape, which roughly correlated to our film as the girl can't escape the torment and chase. I asked a few people on a social networking site the same question, they were up to date with their knowledge of phobias or they googled the name and replied with' it doesn't fit the plot of your movie.' ( I told them the plot previously.) Pondering over themes of the film the title can relate to the idea of love sprung to mind, this soon lead onto the new title 'Love Kills' which is shorter easier to pronounce and a bit more sinister.

Feedback on magazine and poster.
To receive feedback for both the above we used two groups, one who had seen the trailer and then shown the products and the other who were only shown the products. The overall feedback was that they liked the colours that were used on the poster and cover, those who had seen the trailer loved the idea of using the same type of lettering as the trailer, (continuity) those who hadn't seen the trailer would soon understand why it was used, similarly those who watched the trailer liked the magazine cover using the shot of her reading a letter re-arranged to hold the poster of what's in the magazine. Referring back to my magazine analysis's and magazine layouts the preferred look was with simple text and images on the front page, the less cluttered the better, which is exactly what was achieved with the magazine cover, the only text except the masthead, header and footer is information on the film, promoting it as it's mainly the only bits of text to read, other text uses alliteration which I think makes it unique. When thinking of a masthead we went through possible names that clearly state the use of film, the use of Wrap was clever as at the end of film on the set the director stereotypically calls "That's a Wrap". Which ties perfectly with a film magazine. The use of the film strip was picked out by a few people as clever and clearly displaying it's a film magazine.