Trailer 2 Research and Planning

When we made the first trailer for Claustrophobia, we felt that it was appropriate to have a slow, "artsy" trailer. This was because we wanted to break away from the conventions of standard trailers - The trailer for "Requiem for a Dream" was fast, nauseous and left the audience stunned and wanting to see more. We noticed that there was a lack of equilibrium in the trailer, and we wanted to take this route too. However we noticed from audience feedback that the lack of equilibrium also meant a lack of narrative - People didnt understand what the trailer was promoting. We decided to have another look at our trailer. We agreed that it felt too much like a short film fit for a poem, and less like a promotional piece for a film. Our initial reaction was to add some text pieces in the trailer, but we finally accepted taht we hadd to film some more material.

We went to a park and filmed Anthony in a brighter, prettier environment than the dark, dank and dusty warehouse. We also used Danny in the shots too, to show friendship. This is in contrast to the solitude and feeling of lonlieness present in the rest of the trailer.For the editing, we put the "positive" part of the trailer at the start, and then showed progressive decline using saturation and visual cues. We also changed the end text scenes, changing them to black with white text. We also removed the poem, which we felt was the best decision to bring focus back to the production being a trailer.

We now feel that the production has a better narrative feel, whilst still maintaining the original feel of the trailer that we were looking for.

Claustrophobia trailer 2.

Taking into consideration the audience feedback we had, we decided to add some footage and remove the poem from the trailer, we felt this would make the trailer have more narrative and also be less of an "artsy" short film and more related to the topic.