Here I talk about what has gone on in the video and how good or not as good it we...
Thursday, 29 March 2012
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Friday, 16 March 2012
Filming and Location
Our trailer is based in the forest so instead of going to the studio we found a quite large forest to film in. we filmed on a Saturday.
we encounterd many difficulties however when filming here. While filming we encountered the problem of lighting. Even though filming something outside is best done with as much light as possible so that the camera will capture...
Thursday, 15 March 2012
Character Synopsis - BERRY
This is a picture of the victim who is a young mixed raced female. Her make-up it subtle and her hair is long and black and she is an average teenager. We chose to use her as our victim; as a common convention of horror movies is to have a young, attractive female as the victim. We decided to stick to the convention of victims being females but also go against some conventions...
Sunday, 11 March 2012
Health and Safety on a Film Set - HOALIE
High standards of health and safety in production can only be achieved and maintained by everyone involved in the industry playing their part. This means recognising and accepting the different obligations and responsibilities that health and safety legislation places upon individuals or organisations.
Under health and safety legislation, the ultimate responsibility for health and safety rests with the employers involved and the organisations in control of premises and facilities. On a day-to-day basis, the producer...
Saturday, 10 March 2012
Film Trailer Textual Analysis - HOALIE
Paranormal Activity 3
The purpose of the film trailer is to advertise about the horror movie paranormal activity 3’s release in the cinema, and to display some of the highlights of the movie to get the audience engaged and interested in coming to see the movie.
You can establish the story due to its layout style, it’s made in a type of video blog which narrates the story as it goes along, the general atmosphere is like a home video to which a member of the family has set up for purposes such as to record memories for the future, as you start...
Film Poster Textual Analysis - HOALIE
Black crows: in the secondary image, you can see that there is a picture of some flying black crows surrounding the primary image and also surrounding the house, normally you would associate black crows with death as their presence is there when there is a corpse near, so adding some crowns into the secondary image creates the sense of death and negativity towards the poster,...
Magazine Front Cover Textual Analysis - HOALIE
The main image is a woman that has taken a fixed picture with a transparent background, this could be to emphasise her presence more, the female shown has blood running down her face and neck, two possible reasons for this is that she has attacked someone or she has been attacked herself.
The side illustration on the magazine reads “worldwide no.1 horror entertainment magazine”...
Thursday, 8 March 2012
Research into slasher trailers- REBECCA
As we are planning to do a slasher teaser trailer i decided to go research some typical conventions. We may not use them all but it will be helpful as it will make out trailer look more professional. The following are the points i have gathered as conventions by viewing a variety of slasher trailers on you tube.
Audience sees pain inflicted on the victim
The killer often has an iconic weapon such as a knife or even an iconic costume like in the films scream and Friday the 13th.
Loud screams by the victims
eerie...
Camera Shots for Poster Ideas - BERRY
Green - Camera shots we used in our piece. (Trailer/Magazine/Poster)
Purple - Camera shots we didnt use in our piece. (Trailer/Magazine/Poster)
Here are some rough ideas of shots we felt to consider for our poster, ranging from long shots to close-ups.
This is a close-up which was our number one idea, this we because we felt that the close ups would be most effective...
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Textual Analysis Poster - BERRY
Film Title: Saw III
Release Date: 27 October 2006
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Characters: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Angus Macfadyen, Bahar Soomekh & Dina Meyer
Storyline: In this Saw there are almost two story lines, one of which a man whose son was killed in a car accident is thirsty for revenge. He is given the opportunity to receive this revenge when...
Ideal Target Audience - BERRY
Name: Fatima Twiggy
Age: 18
Education: Full - Time sixth form student
Interests: Indie Bands, Magazines, Movies, Skins, Misfits.
Past-time: Social Networking sites such as Facebook & Twitter.
Twiggy says she has a softspot for films especially horror. She reckons horror films dont have the same effect when not watched in a cinema. Twiggy says she loves the adrenaline...
Slasher Films Poster Collage - BERRY
Here are approximately 23 different posters for different slasher films. All of whcih i felt were either very sucessful, well-known or popular. The films here are ranging from the 80s to early 2000.
I decided to put films that could be an example to us and inspire us not only with the making of our poster but the horror teaser trailer itself. As to have a sucessful horror...
Snapshots via Bbm - BERRY
Here is some research i carried out via blackberry messenger. These are the snapshots.
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Audience Research RESULTS - BERRY
After completing our audience research via blackberry messenger and phone call we were able to make generalisations about what we think would appeal to our target audience the most and what we think would make our trailer successful.
I started off by asking my blackberry contacts if they watch horror movies. I was able to come to the conclusion that females watch horror movies more than males. This meant that the majority of people that completed our questionnaire were females ranging from ages 17-18.
I then asked my respondents what genre...
