STALKER - A MOVIE TRAILER - ID# 313
South Elgin
Movie Trailer
Entry Description
From the brilliant mind of Matthew Benson comes, "Stalker". This trailer includes the campiness you'd expect from a slasher flick yet previews the sadistic, horrific, jump scary moments fans of the genre would expect! alternate link if YouTube doesn't work: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y7vGKayIoXpFS36lAQY6WfXRxKVy5s5e/view?usp=sharing
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- 4/23 4:40 pm - POSITIVES: The opening night shoot is very dramatic, and the lighting is managed well. Shaky-cam adds tension! Quick cuts that show the stalker there, and then "not there" work well. The bloody handprint is a great idea that could have been used in some areas to build tension as opposed to the bloody knife. AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT: STORY: Include at least a hint of the connection of the stalker, not just his appearance. This could be teased through a conversation of the protagonist & his best friend... needs something to make the story line intriguing to make you want to watch for more than just to see if the main character survives or not.
Judge 1
Positives: This trailer for "Stalker" is a solid horror/slasher piece that entices the viewer and creates suspense using traditional edit techniques and effective sound design. The music and creepy "hits" work very well, the commitment to the blood effects and costuming is impressive, and the quick, stylistic edits show great skill.
Improvements: A lot of the low-light sequences could have been improved by utilizing more developed lighting contrast to make the antagonist reveals more terrifying - which can be accomplished by finding locations with harsher lights that create "pooling" - such as street lamps - or possibly using strong-beam flashlights to add to the creepy tone of the piece.
Judge 2
Positives: Great cast. Believable acting in an unbelievable world. Perfect for a horror flick. Great art department work. The letter prop was well made with the hand print on the back. Nice. The villain is scary...
Improvements: ... but the villain is only scary once or twice and the it's overkill. This trailer could have ended at about one minute and said everything you needed to say. I think the last act of the trailer revealed your villain a bit too much. He went from being scary to like... kinda fun?
Judge 3
Positives: The combination of the audio track and editing is very effective. A good example of this occurs between 43 seconds and 56 seconds. The cutting is jarring but jarring in a way that builds tension which is what I think you wanted to do in that segment. There are a couple of times when you had a character appear on screen and then mysteriously pop off. I found those to be well-crafted and clever. The shot at 28 seconds is great. The sweeping camera move that reveals the stalker is excellent. It reinforces the feeling that the main character is being watched by an ominous character and doesn't know it.
Improvements: Watch for consistency in lighting. Compare the shots at 13.5 and 15 seconds to the shots from to start to 12 seconds. Even though the latter shots fall into the same category of lighting as the first several, the highlight are too bright and don't feel as natural as the opening shot do.
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