Audience Feedback

I have shown my trailer to a few audiences from my class and have now got some feedback on what I could improve and do better on.

One of the main issues people found with my trailer was the lighting. The feedback I got was negative and the lighting didn't really match the genre or the story. Since most of my filming was done in school and my film is mostly set there, I thought it would be appropriate to keep natural lighting of the school to maintain realism. However, when audiences viewed the trailer they tended to disagree with my method and argued that  the lighting was too bright around the school to get that horror feel. When this was pointed out to me, I saw what they were trying to say and I ended up agreeing with them. So, changes had to be made to the lighting and I did this by darkening some scenes. I even made some scenes in black and white.
Another issue that had arisen was the length of some scenes. The majority of the audience claimed that the first scene was too prolonged and could maybe lose a bit of the audiences attention. I honestly thought that could be an issue originally before showing for feedback.  The feedback made me sure though that that scene had to be changed and edited. I have since then made it shorter but decided not to quicken it up since it is the build up to the climax of the trailer.

I am planning on showing the modified trailer to an audience for other feedback and see how views have changed towards my trailer.