research and planning: good and bad trailers

This movie trailer is for paranormal activity 1, this would be considered as a good trailer as it would be Farley easy to recreate. The handheld camera effect is an element which i will be using, and is easily done with only parts filmed with a tripod. The cast consists of mainly two cast members in one location and would be a more realistic type of trailer i could make.

This movie trailer is for saw 6, and would be considered a bad trailer as it is unrealistic for me to create. The shots throughout the trailer are structured with high budget machinery with no parts seen with a hand held camera. Plus there are a number of different cast members for each part of the challenge, and the location is shown in many parts of a building, showing corridors and various rooms. This sort of trailer would be unrealistic to make myself with the amount of graphics and all of the elements being an obstacle.

research and planning: Questionaire results

What background music and sound effects would you expect to hear in a horror film?

-Screams
-Creaking doors
-Suspense sounds
-High pitched sounds
-Breathing, foot steps
-Tension music
-Slow music
-Heart beat

What locations would you expect to see in a horror film to make it more believable?

-Scary houses
-Woods
-Graveyard
-Alley ways
-Old, dark and foggy places
-Dark low key lighting sets
-Rainy, damp places
-Bathroom mirror scenes
-Gothic style buildings

research and planning: teaser trailer conventions

Teaser trailers are different from film clips as they are trying to sell the film to its target audience, to attract people from the target audience to see the film being promoted.
Teaser trailers usually include:

-Montage of clips seen in the film
-Peaks from the film in the trailer
-Titles or voiceovers
-The films title
-Date of release
-Certificate
-Studio name
-Actors in the film
-Director

research and planning: questionnaire results

These results are from our questionnaire to help us decide on certain aspects of our horror trailer. We asked 10 people to answer our questionnaire and these are the results from three questions. The first question showed the majority would prefer to see transitions in our trailer, for this reason we intend to include transitions to our trailer. The second results showed that there are 5 girls and 5 boys, and everyone who answered the questionnaire was 16-15, which appeals to our target audience. The third set of results show that more people would prefer the trailer to be filmed with a handheld camera with a handheld effect, but because there were also 4 people who would prefer the use of a tripod, we decided to use a combination of both.

research and planning: questionnaire

research and planning: highest grossing films

This is 2 list of the top horror films on IMDB, and Box office mojo. I selected the top 6 from IMDB, and the top 15 from Box office mojo to show the top rated horror films relating to my genre trailer.

research and planning: target auidence on prezi

Target audience on Prezi

This prezi is about the target audience our horror film trailer relates to.