Feedback from radio trailer (draft)

 
Audience feedback: radio trailer (draft) (854 x 480) from as14rk on Vimeo.

After gaining useful feedback from my draft radio trailer, there are considerable changes that I will need to make to ensure that my audience are appealed and are full engaged with the trailer.

Strengths: 

One of the things that my audiences liked was the layering of sound, it worked well in portraying the horror theme, they specifically enjoyed listening to the "we shall not kill.." repetition.
The background sound seemed to please the audience they said that it give the trailer a suspenseful feel to it.

Improvements: 
There were many technical corrections that needed to be made such as the audio distortion, the fuzziness and the pitch of various sounds.

One of the key aspects of my trailer that I need to work on is fully expressing to the audience the theme of zombie horror- I asked my audiences whether they felt my trailer correlated well with the zombie sub-genre, almost all said that they felt as though  it was only specific to horror and they felt like they were listening to a horror trailer generally and not a trailer that's from the zombie genre, some members suggested that I use zombie gore and sound effects to connote the theme of zombies.

My audience a little idea as to what the monotone repetition is about but without me telling them the storyline so it is suspenseful.

The use of silence and sound effects was suggested to be used as it would give a more tense and edgy atmosphere to the trailer, also by using silence, according my audiences from past experiences of listing to trailers they think it will induce the scariness as silence and eerie sounds scare them as they don't know what's coming next,

They also expect to hear unexpected sounds, something to 'grip the accidence by' and 'to make them jump out of their seats' such as a long pause of silence and then a loud bang/sound.

Lastly, thinking back to the BFI trip when Hannah mentioned that in trailers the beginning and ending are the most important parts as they help grip the audiences attention and then maintain that focus and attention through out, my audience think that the beginning and end of my trailer should stand out so that the audience can sustain their engagement throughout the trailer and also go on to remember the trailer.