Audience feedback to our film and new shots that are going ot be added

The shots I filmed for the finishing of the draft ended up to be not what I wanted. Responses from the audience revealed that the shots we added in were not in the same style as the rest of the film. The start of the film resonated a timeless and mysterious feel, “the setting used doesn’t give me any time zone to judge the film by, which makes me want to find out more” this quote from one of our audience shows that we had the right idea for the start of the film but it fell down after that. So new shots are needed to fill in the rest of the trailer, at the moment we still only have about 30 seconds of film we are using. Some of the new shots I am adding to the list are;

·          Character waking up
·          Hints of the past
·          Use of mirrors
·          Defending him self
·          Packing a bag
·          Jumping
·          Voiceovers – investigating, he’s gone, let’s go, I gave them everything/they took everything
·          Axe hitting a tree
·          Gun
·          Running through a River

I want to keep the mysterious style of the film so by looking at similar styled films, like the Bourne film, I came up with a list of different shots to use by looking at the actions that go on throughout the trailers.

In addition the audience said they felt alienated from the film because we weren’t going to show the protagonist’s face in the trailer we did this to give him more of a mysterious presence in the film; however after looking into our feedback we decided that it would not give him much of an impact in the film, thus not making him much of a main character. So to change this we are showing his face but keeping the mystery around him with other methods, such as speech like “how is he” or “we need to find him”.