1st Draft- Nightmares

The first draft of our film trailer first needs to be longer, there aren't enough shots used that make up the trailer and so the narrative is limited and uninteresting. The shots that are included are good quality and show a variation of angles; although the shot near the beginning of the trailer (of our main character walking the dog) needs to be made shorter or deleted completely.
The other shots we need to include are the scenes of possession (fast shots, then dips to black, intertext of Cloverfield), also shots close to the church (Saltford) which is where the possession will occur and this means we'll need to re-shoot her walking through the village, as the settings won't match up.
The music we included is effective in the sense that it links to the genre and creates a creepy feel to the trailer but it needs to be stronger (that stands out more against previous intertexts we looked at). Also the voice overs of Madeleine's character works well; it enables the audience to personally identify with her because she's telling her story and how she's feeling directly to the audience. This is important in horror/thriller trailers because it gets the audience involved, meaning they are more affected by the film and are more likely to remember it.
Our trailer does involve inter-titles at the start, of the production values only, so we need to include a shot showing the title (close to end) as well as cast names.
The target audience for our trailer is also unclear, I think this is mainly because we have little narrative and little effects (it's quite simple), meaning the audience find it hard to get an idea about who it's aimed at. We want to aim it at males and females aged between 15- 21. Because the main character is female and conventionally horror/thriller films are stereotypically aimed at a male audience it already shows elements that it's aimed at both genders (but we need to make a stronger link); we could do this by including shots that the target audience can relate to, for example a shot of her on her laptop or out with her friends.