Skill Development

Our skills have developed through out this process as more was required in this task compared to other works. For instance the amount of cuts and the overall pace of a trailer is faster then a film opening in general immediately adding more skill with editing the films. Choosing the genre of Horror helped us expand and develop our skills as it had many different aspects and conventions required to make the genre noticeable to the audience.

Our research skills have also developed as we had researched deeper into the genre and had analysed the outcomes of our findings which had allowed us to see our progress.

Different Magazine Brands

There are plenty of magazines in the market today, some of which are magazines about tv and films. There are magazines called:

• Total Film
• Empire
• Premiere

Which are the most known tv and film magazines.

The magazine Total Film usually covers Hollywood scale films such as and Marvel film or The Hunger Games (Catching Fire), this may be due to the status of the magazine itself. When thinking about which magazine title to use for our own trailer we had came to the conclusion that Total film would be the wrong choice as they usually portray the more action type films which is a different genre to our own.

 

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The magazine Premiere is not as well known as Total Film although it is popular in its own respect. This magazine usually markets a range of films, yet when researching into their covers it seems as though the pictures used are mainly of the main actor/actress from the film usually not in character. The magazine probably does this as many people will see a film staring an actor that they like so it could boost their sales. When thinking about what magazine to use for our trailer we had thought that this particular magazine didn't cover the genre specific aspects we were looking for.

 

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The magazine Empire is a well known magazine and usually covers films such as X-men and Harry Potter. There is also a small percentage of the released magazines that have been based around horror films such as Silence Of The Lambs. When deciding on the magazine title that me and my partner are going to use we had chosen this one as we feel that our genre of film will suit the title more than the other magazines.

Target Audience Of Trailer

We had decided to make our target audience for our film 15-21 or around these ages as we felt the contents of the film matched up to the horror films with an age of 15. We had thought that aiming between these ages would match our film as it would match the ages of the characters so older viewers may not connect with the film/characters as much.

When researching about our trailer we had put out a questionnaire to people of different ages and with a range of feedback it was obvious that people between the ages of 15 and 19 preferred horror films to any other genres of film due to the events.

Poster Photo Ideas

For our posters, my partner and I had came up with some ideas of what the picture should be and why. Our first idea was of a picture of the main character being dragged through a woods, this as to give the effect of the film on the viewers. We had planned on having the model being dragged through trees with the silhouette of the murderer in the background of the image. During editing I would have made the whole image darker and made the main character the main focus of the image.

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Our second idea was just of the eyes of the actress in order to create a sense of danger to the image. We thought that having the eyes would foreshadow the events in the film with the group being watched. This image would have consisted of the eyes with bruises and cuts around the face which showed the horrific aspects of the film.

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Our final idea was of blood running down the hands of the main character covering her face which added a sense of mystery to whom she was or why she was covering her face. The blood also foreshadowed the gore aspects in the film.

Questionnaire

For some feedback on films we had passed out a questionnaire to people from our family and friends to let us know what they thought about horror movies. These are the questions we had put on our questionnaire:

What gender are you?

Male              Female


What is your age group?

12 - 15         15-18          18-25          25+


How much on a scale of one to ten, do you enjoy horror movies?

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Which is your favorite horror film? If other please state.

Saw             Nightmare on elm street             Last house on the left             Scream                Other

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What type of horror films do you prefer? If other please state.

Sci-Fi            Paranormal            Gore             Supernatural            Other

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What scares you the most? If other please state.

Spiders           The dark           Blood             The unknown              Other

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What conventions of a horror film do you think creates most tension? If other please state.

Scenes that make you jump           Scenes that create suspense               Music                Other

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What do you feel builds the tension the most in a film? If other please state.

Music          Titles           Silence           Other

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Music Inspiration

These are the rock/alternative songs that had influenced the type of music for our film. We had wanted a deep bass line that would be the building blocks for our music, this was also important as this is what leads the rest of the music. We had then wanted a strong drum beat to give the music a bigger structure and body. We felt as though this would allow our film to have a larger effect on the viewer if we had a louder rockier sound to it which also resembled the anger and torment we usually see within horror films. I had also thought that this style of music had   

Music 2

This is our second attempt at the music for our video as we felt the first one was lacking something important.