Sounds - Audience Response


Overall our trailer consisted mostly of diegetic sounds rather than non diegetic sounds, as we only used one main background string piece of music and few 'booms' and 'screeches'. This is because of the diegetic dialogue of the flashback took up quite alot of time in the trailer, and the diegetic shouting of the teenagers, making the noises seem real life with the audience becoming more involved with the characters.
However, following other films conventions we decided to use a diegetic music voice over with the repeating of 'Mary' to create a child like chanting effect, such as the nursery rhyme also played towards the end whilst the fast paced editing takes place 'If you go down in the woods today you're sure for a big surprise, If you go down to the woods today you won't come out alive'. This chanting spooky play on words was a convention used from the trailer of the 'The Woman In Black' with the child speaking over the fast past editing.
This was what we found our audience liked most about our trailer as it had it's unique effect on how to scare them, as the breaking of the stereotype of a large male was transformed to a small girl in order to make them fear.
They also thought that the singing was what had the most effect on them watching the trailer aswell as the 'screeching' sounds that are commonly used in other trailers.