Showing posts with label D. Appendix 1: Research for Main Product. Show all posts
Showing posts with label D. Appendix 1: Research for Main Product. Show all posts
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Untouchable almost finished cut
This is the groups overall finished teaser trailer which we have called 'Untouchable', we think it holds a good sense of horror but also goes into thriller as well. Not to much blood but enough to understand what a killer does. Compared to others I have seen I think having less blood and more tension is the best way to approach horror because it is only a teaser if you went for tons of gore then you have practically shown everything the movie has to offer. With ours I believe we have wet the appetite of the viewer enough to go see the movie and I think it hits our target audience's needs as well after all the research we done regarding it.
Monday, 22 February 2010
My Audience Research for the horror genre
Gender:
Age:
Would you consider watching a new horror film?:
Are you affected by film advertising? (e.g posters, trailers etc):
Are you influenced by actors, directors, franchise or companies?:
What main elements must a horror film have?:
In your opinion, which of the following is best for the 'evil' in a horror film?:
In your opinion which location makes for the best horror setting?:
Age:
Would you consider watching a new horror film?:
Are you affected by film advertising? (e.g posters, trailers etc):
Are you influenced by actors, directors, franchise or companies?:
What main elements must a horror film have?:
In your opinion, which of the following is best for the 'evil' in a horror film?:
In your opinion which location makes for the best horror setting?:
Male
The Shining x3
Eden Lake x2
28 Days Later
Frontiers
The Exorcist
Saw x2
Your Mother is so Fat
I Puked in your Food
Friday 13th
Nightmare on Elm Street
Mirrors
The Ring x2
A Haunting in Connecticut
Scary Movie
Battle Royale
females:
Mirrors
Saw x4
Scream
Nightmare on Elm Street
Halloween
Jason X
The Strangers
Creep
Poltergeist
Hostel
High Tension
The Ring
Silence of the Lambs
The Others
Eden Lake x2
28 Days Later
Frontiers
The Exorcist
Saw x2
Your Mother is so Fat
I Puked in your Food
Friday 13th
Nightmare on Elm Street
Mirrors
The Ring x2
A Haunting in Connecticut
Scary Movie
Battle Royale
females:
Mirrors
Saw x4
Scream
Nightmare on Elm Street
Halloween
Jason X
The Strangers
Creep
Poltergeist
Hostel
High Tension
The Ring
Silence of the Lambs
The Others
Monday, 16 November 2009
Key Conventions of the Horror Genre
There are many conventions that create the horror genre as a whole, but over time there have been specific conventions that are now passed onto each new horror film. One of the main conventions, which will occur, is to do with the location of where it is, normally this could be a haunted house or an isolated area (Eden Lake). Or if it is like ‘Halloween’ it could be a suburbia estate. These types of locations are the most popular across the genre of Horror.
In several films like ‘Eden Lake’ or ‘The Shining’ the audience are placed in isolated environments, which will bring you the feeling of an approachable danger. To go with the idea of the setting of the Horror movie, the places may have a past connection with the main killer or hunter. Why this usually happens is because something in their lives happened there and the new hero has either moved in or been there at some point in time. This is mainly a tool used in a way of creating twists within the story and is used quite regularly. Halloween set itself in a suburban area and the event was to do with the house he had lived in as a kid (The killer that is). Over time after he was put to prison, you see the house is still there and remains untouched due to its past history. Residents occupy every other house besides that, but it seems very quiet and peaceful. But like we say about locations, peaceful goes well with horror you don’t hear the killer coming.
Horror movies always have lighting to their advantage, how do you make it scary? Well if you take films like Halloween and Friday the 13th, the lighting plays the biggest part. This is down to it being very low-key lighting; there are hints of light that normally comes from things like the moon or a torch but all this plays towards the scariness of the movie. For us it sheds some light towards the final girl or hero for them to believe they can escape from wherever they are. But as were watching the audience feel like that there is going to be something coming out of somewhere and it puts some suspense and questioning where the killer or villain will strike. Movies that use lighting to its advantage is films like Halloween, the idea is it’s late at night and the killer is hiding within the shadows.
While watching ‘Halloween’ the lighting is what made the movie as good as it was, you had the teenagers having sex and it pans around and in the shadows you see the shape of a face just starring at them. And it’s that sort of idea that makes it terrifying and you yourself are on the edge of your seat. Early dated films such as Nosferatu used lighting to achieve fear like the shadows of the vampire appearing large on the walls to show power of this creature.
The next convention which sometimes the audience while watching it are unaware of are the amount of close ups throughout the film. Halloween is a good example of this; the main character is normally having a close up of her face when she believed she had been seeing things in the distance. This is what she felt was there, this is carried on throughout the film showing her fear when she comes across the people she know that are dead as well as being chased by the main killer.
You got many close ups of the killer as he killed his victims in the film, but as he was wearing a mask you couldn’t see his emotions but by the close up of the non-serious mask. It showed that he honestly didn’t care what happened and was just going to continue like nothing happened. When we get to the fighting parts close ups are what are mainly shown, especially of the main character. It shows her being scared and confused on what to do and this made the audience feel discomfort etc.
Besides the occurrence of Close ups there is often a couple Extreme Close Ups (ECU) in Halloween and normally any other Horror Movie the reason for it is that when there is an ECU on the victim (Final Girl or Hero of Male gender) to allow us as the audience to identify with terror. The other purpose of it that keeps the tension is that if we only see an eye or a mouth of the victim we have lost location of the killer and we are more tensed wondering where he/it will be next.Horror itself uses these close ups to bring the tension to the screen, along with close ups the viewer may come across point of view shots. These shots are present in Halloween also where the main character believes she is seeing this guy that has been following her in the distance but in the end isn’t but after the walk away you see it from the killer’s view.
No matter what film you may see there are always multiple amounts of camera angles. But in Horror they are different to the extent on how they’re shown. Camera Angles play a big role in the way of terror, for example in both Halloween and The shining, low camera angles were laid on the heroes to show a sense of helpless at the hands of the killer. This was the opposite for the killer normally it would be a high angle to show their power over the Hero etc. But this isn’t always true as it can switch depending on the situation that occurs between the two.
The most popular in camera work is the canted camera effect, which is used in some Horrors, the camera is more on a slant, which makes the image seem a little more disorientated. But that type of effect compliments the Horror Genre, you could say it was used in the early days in ‘The Cabinet of Dr Caligari’ German Expressionism 1930.
The next popular thing to find especially in slasher movies is a weapon of some kind that the killer uses. Halloween, Eden Lake and The Shining all use blunt weapons such as a knife or axes. Other films like Final Destination go for environmental killings and Saw for twisted games.
Halloween itself was the beginning of the sub-genre the slasher movie. It begun the use of a blade in this case a kitchen knife as his weapon of choice, as time went on a change in weaponry came about. Nightmare on Elm Street had Freddy the killer have knifes on each finger. If the knife or blunt weapon were disarmed the killer would use the environment such as a telephone line (Halloween) or any other dangerous killing option to murder the victims.
Moving onto the victims or the characters in the Horror movies, the most common of all would be the average teenager. From slasher movies to general Horror movies, teenagers are used as the main character as well as the victims. The reason for this is that the target audience for Horror movies are now the teenage/young adult audience. So to immerse that type of audience you need characters of similar age to feel a connection between the two.Whenever we cross teenagers in horror movies they tend to be reckless people who are normally having drinks, sex and anything else of the sort. Films that show this are ‘Eden’ Lake and ‘Halloween’ from what we have studied. They tend to be killed due to them being reckless and stupid in the movie.
Halloween is an example of teenagers as the main characters, each one is killed off and it lead up to a female character. The female Laura was a virgin and this carries along through most of those types of films, she tends to also be slightly masculine. In this case she was a babysitter and was quite mature amongst her other girl mates. Other films like Final Destination 3 took a female as the final girl who was also to the same description as Laura from Halloween.
Besides the main hero often being female, law enforcement tends to be ineffectual. In Halloween they are laid back and refuse to believe the doctors that a killer is on the loose down to it being Halloween. Horror films make law enforcers less caring then reality, they make the main hero believe it is a joke till they themselves later discover it was actually true.
Besides the main hero often being female, law enforcement tends to be ineffectual. In Halloween they are laid back and refuse to believe the doctors that a killer is on the loose down to it being Halloween. Horror films make law enforcers less caring then reality, they make the main hero believe it is a joke till they themselves later discover it was actually true.
Horror usually has a theme of some sort of theme, we studied that they expanded into many different themes. Back in the early 50/60’s it was to do with monsters within us (Cat people, Werewolf), or mutation. Evil scientists were common as well like Jeckel and Hide and Frankenstein. To the current day and theme of horror it has moved into the path of the psychopath. Friday the 13th, Halloween (Remakes), Nightmare on Elm Street etc is the most common of all. The other type of horror is now the torture porn series of Saw, the all have the same style but adapted in small ways. We the audience should know what to expect from each if we are told what the film is called and the genre of horror it is. I think these conventions are what make the Horror Genre what it is.
Monday, 9 November 2009
Marketing Plan
Complementing the distribution plan, every film must have a detailed marketing plan, the point of a marketing plan is very simple.
-Raise Awareness
-Engage Interest
-Create visibility
Posters:
This is basically the main image of the film, it normally will give its stars, genre, cast and maybe the odd tagline which may send a question to the audience. There is normally more then one version of the poster, each one may show a different cast member or a different aspect to their film so each one on it's own has to stand out against the rest.
The posters may be created by the studio themselves or a sales agent, these are then rolled out over the globe or changed to suit locally. In terms of the UK they may have originally been devised here from scratch depending on approved materials and how the film is best presented.
The most popular poster would be the teaser poster, the idea behind a teaser poster is the same of a teaser trailer, it is meant for the audience to look at it and want to know what it is. Genre and that are normally strictly hidden or will unveil very minor details to the whole film.
Trailers:
Trailers and Teaser Trailers may be the single most cost effective part of the marketing plan in general. But these can be boosted by the fact they are played on the big screen to try and captivate an audience. Main trailers tend to appear not long before the actual release of the film however, teaser trailers are shown a couple months in advance. Teaser trailers tend to be short revealing very little information but may spill some bits such as cast or genre. The tend to be between 30-90 seconds in length and are basically aimed at making the audience want more.
A successful teaser is one that can get an entire audience disappointed because they wanted more to be shown. Trailers are made by specialist agencies or production companies to make it with the available material from the movie. Most trailers give you a variety of shots from the movie, to get some attention they may put some of the best bits in it as well to bring more anticipation from the audience. Material can be short as maybe most shots have not been filmed yet, so they try to make in engaging off what they have.
More then 3000 copies of a theatrical or teaser trailer are sent around, they tend to be shown in screens that are viewing films of similar interest. Some trailers for upcoming movies get shown on DVD's of similar interest as well, it isn't as common but is a possible way of doing it. The most common way is trailers being shown online, it is by far the more common of the lot.
-Raise Awareness
-Engage Interest
-Create visibility
Posters:
This is basically the main image of the film, it normally will give its stars, genre, cast and maybe the odd tagline which may send a question to the audience. There is normally more then one version of the poster, each one may show a different cast member or a different aspect to their film so each one on it's own has to stand out against the rest.
The posters may be created by the studio themselves or a sales agent, these are then rolled out over the globe or changed to suit locally. In terms of the UK they may have originally been devised here from scratch depending on approved materials and how the film is best presented.
The most popular poster would be the teaser poster, the idea behind a teaser poster is the same of a teaser trailer, it is meant for the audience to look at it and want to know what it is. Genre and that are normally strictly hidden or will unveil very minor details to the whole film.
Trailers:
Trailers and Teaser Trailers may be the single most cost effective part of the marketing plan in general. But these can be boosted by the fact they are played on the big screen to try and captivate an audience. Main trailers tend to appear not long before the actual release of the film however, teaser trailers are shown a couple months in advance. Teaser trailers tend to be short revealing very little information but may spill some bits such as cast or genre. The tend to be between 30-90 seconds in length and are basically aimed at making the audience want more.
A successful teaser is one that can get an entire audience disappointed because they wanted more to be shown. Trailers are made by specialist agencies or production companies to make it with the available material from the movie. Most trailers give you a variety of shots from the movie, to get some attention they may put some of the best bits in it as well to bring more anticipation from the audience. Material can be short as maybe most shots have not been filmed yet, so they try to make in engaging off what they have.
More then 3000 copies of a theatrical or teaser trailer are sent around, they tend to be shown in screens that are viewing films of similar interest. Some trailers for upcoming movies get shown on DVD's of similar interest as well, it isn't as common but is a possible way of doing it. The most common way is trailers being shown online, it is by far the more common of the lot.
Online:
Most successful planned movies tend to get more then just a poster and a trailer or two. A website is normally the next step to get people who like the internet to be interested in their website. The website is normally like a teaser site, which contains the trailer and maybe some brief news that has been going on with the movie. The also may contain mini-games depending on the audience they want. Galleries/stills will also be available and even behind the scene footage may be shown to the online community.The may sometimes give the audience blogs from the set and other content like video blogs or snippets from the set entice the audience more into their movie. Film clips are actually the most searched for content on the internet.
Merchandising:
Many releasing films, mainly family orientated films have merchandising laid out for the public. Normally it would be an image or logo relating to the movie put onto different merchandise. Examples of this are figures, clothing, ringtones, screen-savers or anything else to be honest. Even food outlets release toys for kids in their happy meals etc, this is normally for kids movies or other related content. But it means more people can know what their movie is, merchandise is a big thing in the marketing plan. Take Star Wars for example the amount of merchandise that has shipped in it's life span is a phenomenon on it's own.
Distribution Planning
This is one of the things we were asked to write about on this blog and I am going to narrow it into small points.
-Film Distributors have to first consider what the film may earn in terms of low/mid/high estimates, once this is taken into consideration then an overall budget can be made including all related costs. The obvious idea is that they want to make more money then what they have thrown in, sometimes this isn't achieved.
-The Audience is the next big thing to take into mind, they need to know the age/gender/group even lifestyle etc to find if they would appeal to the movie. But normally they look of films that relate to the film their distributing to get a vague idea on the audience.
-Most popular audience age group is 15-24 year olds, they visit the cinema at least once a month and possibly more.
-Normally test screenings are shown to small groups of audiences, these tend not to be the full film but they give them questionnaires as well to fill in. This can give the distributors what to expect on the broader box office audience. 'Sleeper' Hits tend to be more common now, they are on for a more longer time and earn more then expected.
-The competition can become very different you have many different types of films that they have to take into consideration before they know when to release theirs. It may conflict with a film of similar genre or audience age group.
-Is it an event driven film? or a summer Blockbuster? or a specialized movie for a more discrete audience. Is there any star power (Famous Actors), do they appeal to the audience if they were in any previous films? Is the Director or Producer well known, do people like their work?
-Any hopes for the film to get an Oscar or award nomination
-Is it a sequel or a franchise entry, what makes this one any different or better then the previous installments. And will it be a big enough change to attract its old audience due to it be released again.
-Digital Regeneration allows a new way of distributing their movies over to cinemas to show audiences. The most common way is by 35mm celluloid prints, this is still going on but the future is known to be digital or on disc. The statistics behind it say that doing it via a digital medium the costs globally to companies is 10% cheaper which in their eyes is a big margin of money.
The backfire to this, is that most UK cinemas or even America cinemas still haven't fully digitized themselves. Another benefit to being digital is digitally remastering although time consuming, bringing old movies back to life. Whilst being digital they won't deteriorate over time unlike the 35mm.
-Film Distributors have to first consider what the film may earn in terms of low/mid/high estimates, once this is taken into consideration then an overall budget can be made including all related costs. The obvious idea is that they want to make more money then what they have thrown in, sometimes this isn't achieved.
-The Audience is the next big thing to take into mind, they need to know the age/gender/group even lifestyle etc to find if they would appeal to the movie. But normally they look of films that relate to the film their distributing to get a vague idea on the audience.
-Most popular audience age group is 15-24 year olds, they visit the cinema at least once a month and possibly more.
-Normally test screenings are shown to small groups of audiences, these tend not to be the full film but they give them questionnaires as well to fill in. This can give the distributors what to expect on the broader box office audience. 'Sleeper' Hits tend to be more common now, they are on for a more longer time and earn more then expected.
-The competition can become very different you have many different types of films that they have to take into consideration before they know when to release theirs. It may conflict with a film of similar genre or audience age group.
-Is it an event driven film? or a summer Blockbuster? or a specialized movie for a more discrete audience. Is there any star power (Famous Actors), do they appeal to the audience if they were in any previous films? Is the Director or Producer well known, do people like their work?
-Any hopes for the film to get an Oscar or award nomination
-Is it a sequel or a franchise entry, what makes this one any different or better then the previous installments. And will it be a big enough change to attract its old audience due to it be released again.
-Digital Regeneration allows a new way of distributing their movies over to cinemas to show audiences. The most common way is by 35mm celluloid prints, this is still going on but the future is known to be digital or on disc. The statistics behind it say that doing it via a digital medium the costs globally to companies is 10% cheaper which in their eyes is a big margin of money.
The backfire to this, is that most UK cinemas or even America cinemas still haven't fully digitized themselves. Another benefit to being digital is digitally remastering although time consuming, bringing old movies back to life. Whilst being digital they won't deteriorate over time unlike the 35mm.
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Theatrical Trailers
Here is a list of three different Horror Movie trailers - On flickr I will take a screenshot that I find has a lot to show of the genre specifically.
Friday the 13th Official Trailer 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VhXo4Nye5Q
Nightmare on Elm Street 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB8XYZDu5zs
Friday the 13th Official Trailer 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VhXo4Nye5Q
Nightmare on Elm Street 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB8XYZDu5zs
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Teaser Trailers
Saw V Teaser Trailer 2008:
For it's genre of horror or a torture porn film, when seeing this trailer you are completely thrown off what genre it is because it is accompanied by strange music and inter titles being quite peaceful. But at the end it straight away shows what we will expect it was almost like it was showing a brighter way to explain what he does i.e. justice etc when in fact he kills people.
Target audience isn't shown till the title is appeared which in this case would be 18 onwards as it is a SAW movie. Music is what throws off the audience by the sound of it, it is more like a religous Jesus Christ like film. But at the end it plays the famous tune from the SAW movies so we know what to expect. There is only one bit of voice over and that is one word from the main villain that has been in all of the films besides that its just a choir song in the background.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJuOCO06_Lk
Friday the 13th Teaser Trailer 2009:
The genre of this movie is clearly stated as a horror movie but it takes a while to establish itself as a horror, with the more peaceful shots at the beginning then leading into more darker shots and heavy breathing. The name of the movie is show at the end 'Friday the 13th' and to be honest it should be known by everyone what the film is by the iconic mask of Jason. The only production values are shown in the form of producer Michael Bay who in which has done many big films including that of Transformers etc.
The trailer states that violence will be shown in the movie as screams and other shots of people going to get killed. The music is very low toned because there is a voice over done by an old woman who puts a little chill into the trailer and makes the story slightly explained.
The Omen 2006:
[There is a lot of different changed here in this teaser trailer, the genre of the movie isn't specified it is simply a boy wearing red on and is swinging on a swing. The only hint of it being a horror is the red blood font that can be seen.
There is no music to be heard, but simply sounds from the swing and the wind going along. There is no production values shown nor a name for the movie so it is a little confusing to understand.
For it's genre of horror or a torture porn film, when seeing this trailer you are completely thrown off what genre it is because it is accompanied by strange music and inter titles being quite peaceful. But at the end it straight away shows what we will expect it was almost like it was showing a brighter way to explain what he does i.e. justice etc when in fact he kills people.
Target audience isn't shown till the title is appeared which in this case would be 18 onwards as it is a SAW movie. Music is what throws off the audience by the sound of it, it is more like a religous Jesus Christ like film. But at the end it plays the famous tune from the SAW movies so we know what to expect. There is only one bit of voice over and that is one word from the main villain that has been in all of the films besides that its just a choir song in the background.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJuOCO06_Lk
Friday the 13th Teaser Trailer 2009:
The genre of this movie is clearly stated as a horror movie but it takes a while to establish itself as a horror, with the more peaceful shots at the beginning then leading into more darker shots and heavy breathing. The name of the movie is show at the end 'Friday the 13th' and to be honest it should be known by everyone what the film is by the iconic mask of Jason. The only production values are shown in the form of producer Michael Bay who in which has done many big films including that of Transformers etc.
The trailer states that violence will be shown in the movie as screams and other shots of people going to get killed. The music is very low toned because there is a voice over done by an old woman who puts a little chill into the trailer and makes the story slightly explained.
The Omen 2006:
[There is a lot of different changed here in this teaser trailer, the genre of the movie isn't specified it is simply a boy wearing red on and is swinging on a swing. The only hint of it being a horror is the red blood font that can be seen.
There is no music to be heard, but simply sounds from the swing and the wind going along. There is no production values shown nor a name for the movie so it is a little confusing to understand.
Sunday, 11 October 2009
Propps narrative theories and The Shining summarized by it
We were asked to write a summary about the movie 'The Shining' a horror movie and how it relates to propps theory on narrative.
Propps Theory:
Vladimir Propp (1969) developed a character theory for studying media texts and productions, which indicates that there were 7 broad character types in the 100 tales he analysed, which could be applied to other media:
The villain (struggles against the hero)
The donor (prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical object)
The (magical) helper (helps the hero in the quest)
The princess (person the hero marries, often sought for during the narrative)
Her father
The dispatcher (character who makes the lack known and sends the hero off)
The hero or victim/seeker hero, reacts to the donor, weds the princess
He then went on to say that he could make a summary of 31 points that would happen in the narrative from the beginning to the end. They may not go all in order but most will make an appearence somewhere down the line of the movie/tale.
To start off with this film does follow propps characters roles i.e. hero, donor and other roles and to an extent each character in the film plays out these roles. Some actually carry out two maybe three roles so this is a very good way on how to recognize their roles.
The next part of propp's theory was the narrative structure of a general concept for a film. We had to apply it to the movie 'The Shining' The idea behind propp was a structure of sections where an event would happen. They all go within a certain order but in terms of 'The Shining' the events didn't match up in the order of what propp had wrote.
They do match together but they do not make sense in the places they go in. It is all a bit mixed up but if correct in the right order propp's theory would certainly fit this movie and it may well fit other movies. The theory itself is an easy way to digest the narrative of any movie but it sometimes can't be applied efficiently to some movies. But it is a good way to find out the roles and event structure of a film.
Propps Theory:
Vladimir Propp (1969) developed a character theory for studying media texts and productions, which indicates that there were 7 broad character types in the 100 tales he analysed, which could be applied to other media:
The villain (struggles against the hero)
The donor (prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical object)
The (magical) helper (helps the hero in the quest)
The princess (person the hero marries, often sought for during the narrative)
Her father
The dispatcher (character who makes the lack known and sends the hero off)
The hero or victim/seeker hero, reacts to the donor, weds the princess
He then went on to say that he could make a summary of 31 points that would happen in the narrative from the beginning to the end. They may not go all in order but most will make an appearence somewhere down the line of the movie/tale.
To start off with this film does follow propps characters roles i.e. hero, donor and other roles and to an extent each character in the film plays out these roles. Some actually carry out two maybe three roles so this is a very good way on how to recognize their roles.
The next part of propp's theory was the narrative structure of a general concept for a film. We had to apply it to the movie 'The Shining' The idea behind propp was a structure of sections where an event would happen. They all go within a certain order but in terms of 'The Shining' the events didn't match up in the order of what propp had wrote.
They do match together but they do not make sense in the places they go in. It is all a bit mixed up but if correct in the right order propp's theory would certainly fit this movie and it may well fit other movies. The theory itself is an easy way to digest the narrative of any movie but it sometimes can't be applied efficiently to some movies. But it is a good way to find out the roles and event structure of a film.
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
The Return of the Repressed
Our Media Studies teacher requested us to find out what the term, 'The Return of the Repressed' meant. I had done some research and this is what I had found out.
The Return of the Repressed
The term "Return of the repressed" is according to theory to be the existence of certain thoughts and feelings within a person that eventually show their selves. Theory states that the person shows this via symptoms if they are not discharged from themselves. Therefore they are expressed by a person almost subconsciously, The person would feel very strongly about the matter presented to them all the time but not want to express it.
The Return of the Repressed
The term "Return of the repressed" is according to theory to be the existence of certain thoughts and feelings within a person that eventually show their selves. Theory states that the person shows this via symptoms if they are not discharged from themselves. Therefore they are expressed by a person almost subconsciously, The person would feel very strongly about the matter presented to them all the time but not want to express it.
Sunday, 20 September 2009
My choice for a 'Horror' Movie trailer
Well here is my decision for a horror movie trailer, it isn't exactly the type of horror you would all expect. It also branches into the thriller side as well (Most horrors do). My choice is '1408' this film starring John Cusack and Samuel Jackson was very creepy and imaginative. This film is based on a short novel wrote by the horror novelist Stephen King. Due to my low stomaching of Horrors this was the only one I enjoyed to watch. If you haven't seen it, it can put you on edge and is quite well done for a horror style movie. Enjoy.
After studying around with how trailers should look and deliver we were asked to use our horror trailer and see if it meets the certain criteria that was written on the sheet.
The genre was given to be a horror/thriller movie because of the fast editing and unusual things involving deaths etc.
The name of the movie was given at the end of the trailer, 1408 written on a door as it is a hotel room.
It showed some of it's production values saying it was based on a book by Stephen King which is a well known horror novel writer. After it showed two main cast members including Samual L Jackson and John Cusack which both are top actors especially Samual Jackson.
The trailer itself doesn't indicate a specific audience but if it had to go with something for what it shows would be a 18-24 age audience. It doesn't show a lot of violence it is mainly chills and thrills which I think could maybe go down to an audience of 16 year olds as well as the movie is rated 15.
With the music that was played with the film, you can definitely feel a sense of supernatural or disturbing exorcist like themes. Throughout it there is a sense of tension being built on it and in my opinion made me feel at the end that I wanted to see the movie to discover what it was all about. There is a partial voice over which is there to bring some spooky/epic ton to it but there is dialouge from Cusack and other supporting characters. The characters were introduced by the voice over and a little back story was explained to which is good at grabbing the audiences attention further.
From what we have been reading and studying of trailers and how they should be, I think it is a good example in all the areas we have covered.
After studying around with how trailers should look and deliver we were asked to use our horror trailer and see if it meets the certain criteria that was written on the sheet.
The genre was given to be a horror/thriller movie because of the fast editing and unusual things involving deaths etc.
The name of the movie was given at the end of the trailer, 1408 written on a door as it is a hotel room.
It showed some of it's production values saying it was based on a book by Stephen King which is a well known horror novel writer. After it showed two main cast members including Samual L Jackson and John Cusack which both are top actors especially Samual Jackson.
The trailer itself doesn't indicate a specific audience but if it had to go with something for what it shows would be a 18-24 age audience. It doesn't show a lot of violence it is mainly chills and thrills which I think could maybe go down to an audience of 16 year olds as well as the movie is rated 15.
With the music that was played with the film, you can definitely feel a sense of supernatural or disturbing exorcist like themes. Throughout it there is a sense of tension being built on it and in my opinion made me feel at the end that I wanted to see the movie to discover what it was all about. There is a partial voice over which is there to bring some spooky/epic ton to it but there is dialouge from Cusack and other supporting characters. The characters were introduced by the voice over and a little back story was explained to which is good at grabbing the audiences attention further.
From what we have been reading and studying of trailers and how they should be, I think it is a good example in all the areas we have covered.
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