Evaluation

Improvements/ Adaption’s:
We originally planned on using a locket in the trailer to symbolise the girl but we decided to completely change that idea and include a brief encounter with the murderer. We weren’t going to add the murderer into the trailer because we didn’t want to reveal too much but we have decided to use a dress code of a black long coat and a white mask, covering the whole face and black veil/hood over the murderers head. We only plan to use the character in one or two scenes, one of which he will be his perched on a branch in a tree, at the very end of the trailer. However we intend to edit the scene so this character looks slightly blurred, preventing the audience from being fully able to see him. This should therefore encourage the audience to want to know more about this mask covered man.
We have also decided to repeat a selection of all the scenes seen in the trailer at the very end but at a very fast speed, so only flashes are visible and then to finish with the murderer perched on the tree branch, to then suddenly fade to black. This will add to the suspense and finish on an enigma of the audience not knowing who this masked man is.
Another adaption we might make is to make the trailer non chronological and start at the end with a shot of part of the girl laid on the ground in the woods, slightly hidden under leaves. From here we will carry out the planned storyboard, until the end where the fast shot scenes are shown.
Referring to the home movie scenes we planned on having natural spoken dialogue from the children in these in particular scenes to make it sound realistic, but we have now decided to have no dialogue used and instead to use a piece of soft rhythmic music, which should help to engage the audience and connect the scenes with the music to predict that something bad is going to happen.