Storytelling unit: Critical response and trailer feedback

I have recently completed my 2 minute trailer and uploaded it to the UCA TV Production YouTube channel, (here) and have since received critical feedback from both my course leader as well as my class-mates at a screening that was held at the Maidstone TV Studios where we are based.

Firstly I found it to be a very valuable and interesting experience to have my work critiqued by people who had also completed their own projects, as opposed to randomly chosen viewers, as my classmates and course leader had a better understanding of the amount of work that had gone into making said trailer, and would therefore take small mistakes and inconsistencies into account when watching it. I believe people that hadn't completed the same project as me may have critiqued the work more harshly.
The majority of the actual feedback I received was positive, with the main criticism being that the "eviction" notice that appears in my trailer was a hand-written one as opposed to one that I had created digitally and printed off.

Looking back however, I have a few criticisms of my own, mostly about the ways I shot the film. I feel like I should have made more use of the cameras focusing features, to create good depth of field. In my trailer however, all shots are perfectly clear, which although gives my film the look of perfect quality, makes it lack the depth it could have had if I had made more use of the focusing as opposed to using autofocus.

I have thoroughly enjoyed working on this unit, and I feel I have learnt a lot about what it takes to script, film and edit a trailer, as well as what it takes to perform in front of a camera. As such, I will be able to control my actors in later film pieces in a much more efficient and effective way due to my own experiences in front of the camera.