Horror Film Trailer

Evaluation Question Four

Evaluation Question Three

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

I learnt a lot from my audience feedback. It allowed me to hear vital feedback from my target audience. Audience feedback was very important to me because it gave me the needed feedback about the viral campaigns that I was going to use.

Evaluation Question Two

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?




The use of our product and combination of ancillary texts stand out a lot because we used a lot of unique technique methods.  The main thought at hand was to make our movie publications stand out more and also appeal to our target audience.

Evaluation Question One

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?





                                                                    Horror film Trailer

My media product (trailer) challenges the forms and conventions of real media products by the type of iconography used.  This was very important because I didn’t want to make a typical dated trailer but more of a trailer that appeals to our target audience.  The main issue was trying to keep the conventions of slasher horror in a modern day type of horror movie.  This was done in many ways by mise en scene and non-diegetic sound used for the trailer.   My trailer challenges the conventions of the horror genre because it goes against the norm.  There are camera shots and motions used that appeal to a modern audience.  Our trailer is realistic and that’s what immediately breaks away from the classical horror genre conventions.  By putting the scenarios in a realistic modern state it makes people much more frightened.  Here is a video below of the trailer devil and how they used a realistic method to make their horror movie appeal.  Our USP has also stood out for example the use of no person or character on the front page of our magazine. 

Devil | Movie Trailer



Horror Film Still Shots

Here are a few shots from shooting on the day!

Horror Magazine Audience Feedback

I put our magazine poster on two of the most popular social networking sites of 2010

Twitter : 



 

Facebook:  




This was very important because we gain a lot of feedback from on our posters and with the use of twitter random members from all over the world were commenting on our magazine front cover. Another good point was that we reach out to our taregt audience via the use of social networking sites and they gave us valuble feedback on how to improve our poster and make it look better and appeal more.  Images are shown below
                                                  

                                                                            TWITTER

FACEBOOK

As you can see they are both crictical and also very happy with our level of work.  So from this feedback I belive we succeeded in appealling to our target audience.



Horror Magazine Front cover

Like the film poster this magazine had many influences from independant film magazines to major ones. 

 

The main thing I like about our poster is that I believe we stuck strongly to the genre by the use of blood and also the background image on the magazine. I belive that we did well by trying to appeal to a youthful target audience. I feel that the iconograpgy also makes a strong reference to the horror genre because it shows classical elements e.g. the use of the red blood.  This poster challenges the classical horror conventions by the text of the film title used and also with the type of language used to communicate with the audience. 

Horror Film Poster

 



Horror Movie Poster Draft

We made a draft to get the basic idea for our film poster. This was mainly becasue we had many influences for it as shown in previous posts,  we believe that this is the product we are going to develop and improve on to give it that commerical image and appeal.

 

We feel as a draft this is very strong becasue the graffti text appeals to our target audience. I also belive it is strong becasue we have kept the hype for the movie on the poster 'UNLEASH THE HAVOC'.  It also looks very realistic and I believe this is becasue the use of the production companies and ratings from other magazines etc.

Sounds Used

Sound Literally makes the horror film trailer work because it adds suspense and life to the trailer. Be it the sound of a heartbeat or heavy breathing, sound is always needed to make a trailer effect  and attract people to go and watch the actual movie. I visited various sound websites and look at many horror videos to see how they created suspense.  

I got most of my non-diegtic sound from the website: http://soundbible.com/suggest.php?q=horror

 

The main thing that made me want to use this website was that it was free to download sounds and very simple because they were small files. This website contained the essentails for a horror movie trailer scary and eyecatching. 

Heres a link to the breathing we used : http://soundbible.com/766-Slow-Breathing.html

Evidence of filming

Below is a slide show of my outtakes of filming.

The evidence of filming os important because it shows that we actually went out and filmed and we did not steal it.

Characters

Below are the lists of our characters.... and why we chose to use them.

Emily Blyth



 

I  chose to use Emily as one of our characters because she had the modern image that appealed to our target audience.  Her sense of style, he way she spoke definietly was what me choose her to star in our film trailer.

Gaberial Ciulla

The reason why I selected Gaberial to be in our trailer was because he had the rough and trendy image that appealed to our target audience. 

   John  Harvey

 

The reason why I selected John to be in our horror film trailer was because he had the quirky attitude and also the image that appealed to our target audience. 

Ashley Mitton

 

The reason  why I chose to use Ashley was because he has alot of energy and gave off a lot of creative ideas which enhanced the quality of the trailer.

Darren Otan

 



The reason for selecting Darren to be in the film trailer was because he has a lot of creative ideas and also understands a lot about movie conventions which I felt would be very helpful for me as I was recording.

The Script

The script is important but as it a film trailer and does not need to emphasise so much on the what the characters dialogue because that will give away to much information about the about the trailer.

Blood Runner (script)

Scene One

Dylan Arrives home from training turns on the light and hears a noise.  He looks up and goes on with life as if he has heard nothing, soon after he hears another.

Dylan: Hello?

(Walks up the stairs suspiciously, conscious of his surroundings)

Crrrrp (A noise comes from the bedroom)

Dylan opens the door and turns on the light and in the state of panic runs to the phone to call the police but soon finds the phone is engaged.  

Scene Two

Emily is on the phone in her house and walks into her bedroom.

Emily: Yeah Bobby ... you can come over tomorrow, my parents aren’t home so it will be fun.

(Phone conversation ends and she if left looking at her laptop whilst applying make up in front of the mirror)

The lights start to flicker (Emily begins to look at the light puzzled and walks over to the light switch)

Emily: Ok (she says as she pushes the light switch)

(The lights go out and she reaches for the light switch)  

Emily: Damn! Come on, come on! 

She goes to her dressing table and reaches out for her matchbox and as she strikes the match she is met with a blood note on the mirror.  

(She drops the match box and runs to the door but it slams)

Emily: (On all fours scrambles on the ground looking for her matchbox) Oh god! Come on!

(As she grabs the match box she is met with the infamous killer)

Part of our script.

Our three top movie poster ideas!

Here are some movie poster ideas that we liked ..

 

I chose these posters because they all stand out from what is expected.  I also believe that this can also enhance my trailer and make it appear to be much more impacting compared to overs.

Production company

We have chosen to call our production company Epic Motives as we feel they sound universal.  We have decided to join up with paramount pictures as they usually do sub-ventures with horror movies for example with the movie paranormal activity.   Here is a image of the draft below...

Risk Assessment Filming

Health & safety

Legal advice on health and safety issues when filming.
Producers should ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that persons working with and for them are not exposed to risks to their health and safety. An example of what may be considered reasonably practicable would be if location filming was taking place in a warehouse with poor lighting. It would be appropriate to ensure that extra lighting is used and that all sharp or otherwise hazardous equipment is made safe.

You should have at least one experienced member of the crew who is aware of health and safety issues.

Some genres may pose more risks than others i.e. horror or action films or scenes involving animals. The production team should discuss safety issues before filming begins and take steps to avoid or reduce the risks identified.

Questionnaire and Results

I had decided to create a questionnaire to see what people feel about horrors and how we can use there feedback to improve our movie trailer , poster etc.  I am going to create a quota sample questionnaire as I feel this is much more straight forward and can be altered quite easily compared to the rest.

Here is a image of the process of creating the questionnaire.

Here it is below :

Horror Genre Questionnaire

Male        Female     (Please circle one)  

Do you watch horror Movie?  (Circle below)

YES                      NO

What do you expect from horrors?  (Circle below)

Thrill      Gore       Fear       Unexpected          Other.....

What are you top three horror movies? (Please state below)

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What do you feel is more important the trailer or film poster? (Please state below)

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In the next 10 years do you think that the horror genre will become less scary? (Please State below)

Action Planning

This post is covering what we intend to do and when we want to achieve it by.  I feel it is very beneficial for my group to do his because we decide what we want to complete and when we want to complete it.  Having looked at other groups progression and comparing them to our I can honestly say we are putting in mediocre amounts of efforts which is not good enough. We plan to finish planning by November 5th and plan to finish filming within a weeks duration.

Front cover research

Magazines are very important because they allow us to see visuals of whats going to occur within the horror movie. Horror movies also aid a lot because they generate the ever wanted and needed publicity for the horror movies.  Here is an example of a horror magazine poster



When a movie reaches the front cover of many magazines it generates fans and reaches out to many people from different backgrounds.  A good illustration of this point is with the Twlight movie saga promotions e.g. 

 

These publications and promotional methods work because they reach out to many people of different fan bases, mainly thoses who are unaware of the movie. Emmanuel and I plan to create something unique,  we are going have a main image of the male protagonist then after that we are going to have the rest of the characters behind him causing drama of some sort.