WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM YOUR AUDIENCE FEEDBACK?
Summary of feedback
For our trailer, the main criticism we had was needing more traditional horror conventions. For example, we were told that we needed more glamour in our trailer, meaning that they wanted to see a female victim. All famous horrors like Scream, Sinister and The Last Exorcism have a young female that is a victim and we decided to go against the stereotype. Although it is a convention that is seen in the most iconic horror films we thought that, considering our film is similar to I am Legend, we would pay homage to the film by also not having a female victim. Another convention that we did did not put in and were criticised for was not having a murder. In the majority of trailers that we researched, they all included a murder. However we thought we would incorporate Barthes' theory of keeping the audience guessing and not have a murder in our trailer, we also agreed that it would be better not to give away the most significant part of our trailer.