From research I have done I would like to make the decision that my film is going to be at the certificate of a 15. I have chosen a 15 because with 18 certificate that is when it's at the extreme with blood/thrill of killing etc but in my film this wouldn't happen as it's not a slasher horror. From my teaser trailer I want my target audience to be left with 'When is this going to be out?' While watching it I want them to have a brief explanation and not a full detailed story line as it's a teaser. I want them to be left with the question 'What's going on?' So it leaves them confused wanting to know the answer. For this to happen in my teaser trailer there needs to be loads of face paced editing and dark lighting for it to have the horror and frightening effect. Having close up shots and face paced editing will not show the audience full things making me fulfill my target in not letting them know everything I will have to be clever with sound effects with Diegetic and Non Diegetic sounds as they are the things that will cause tension. I have found with watching trailers at a 15 certificate they normally have writing which I think is effective and could use to engage my target audience.
Thursday, 30 October 2014
Organisation
I have looked on my tracker to see what I have to work on and what I am missing out. I have only done 2 posts about Target Audience so this means that I have to focus on this and include it more. I could do this my figuring out what age I am going to make my film at and know then what type of things to include in the film to fill the criteria. I would also have another look on surgery monkey to see if anything else has been answered on there to know.
Organisation
I Have been thinking about what sort of characters I want in my teaser trailer and what I want them to look like. I want to try and find a male that looks like the Actor Jake Gyllenhaal. I think he has the typical Middle Aged man with facial hair and would suit someone with the same style like this would suit the role perfectly for my trailer. The man could not be short as we are trying to find someone intimidating and fearful.
The girl that I want to take part will be in her teens around 17/18. She will also look like a typical teenage girl, a sweet one. I would not want my actress to have tattoos or anything to show a sign of confidence and lack of fear as in the trailer we have to make sure that she finds everything scary and wouldn't just be bothered about anything that's happening. I would like to use someone like Sarah Hyland as she has a sweet and innocent look.
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Wednesday, 29 October 2014
Drafting and planning
Caitlin and I have taken photos of the places that are going to be most effective and scary in the film that we have already and planned out, these two places are where you are firstly introduced to the man.
This is where the scene where the girl is going to be standing and the man appears in the background of the door and this is when we are first introduced to the character. Me and Caitlin have chosen these doors in the house because you can use a good wide shot when you can get both characters in the shot as if it was just a single back door then we would just have to use a close up shot for to see the man. We thought doing this scene would make it more effective as if the door was opened and there's been noises in the house the audience will think hes already in there so him just popping up we have tried to make it more jumpy
The second door was used because of the latch as you can see in the photo. We thought this would be useful as it gives tension to the man getting nearer to her when she cant unlock it to try and get away from the house. It shows how she already has an idea of the man is as if it was an ordinary one she would be on the phone however she already knows shes being tracked/hunted.
Friday, 24 October 2014
Organisation
Myself and Caitlin have made a detailed plot for my horror teaser trailer as I thought doing this before doing a story board would help me and make it easier for me to understand.
Beginning - There is an establishing shot of the house where my trailer is going to be set on the night time, With this shot I would try to block out any other houses near by to make the girl feel more alone later on in the trailer when you get introduced into the man.
After this I would want an over the shoulder shot to show of the girl looking in mirror and down at her tablets being given to her as you can see her trying to put them down the drain. She then looks up and sees a man behind her quickly and then when she blinks he has gone.
We are going to set the first shot in a bathroom as it would make the girl seem more vulnerable. There is then a long shot being used at the same level of the girl in the bath so you can just see her head. As the camera moves above her she goes under the water.
After this there would then be a close up shot being used to show her come quickly up out of the water when she hears a noise.
When shes up there's a silence and extreme close up to the bath tap dripping to cause tension. There's a extreme close up of the girls face when she starts to hear other noises like creaking. This is when there's fast pace editing of the girl grabbing her stuff/getting a towel on.
There dripping on off her hair just standing still making the silence feel more dramatic and a close up to the drips leading into a black out. With the black out to another scene.
Coming out of the door its all blurred having a flashback to the bathroom from her tipping the tablets down showing how shes got something wrong with her. She goes to check downstairs with a dolly camera following her. When shes at the bottom the camera shows a wide shot showing how the door is open from a far. She then she runs to close it and turns away from it with a medium close up having a relief grin/deep breath. As shes that way there's jump cuts of the man behind and then we see him pop up behind her in the dark without her knowing. As she takes some steps away the man tries to open it she shut and locks it and starts running out towards the front door. The character scrambles to the front door in an attempt to escape the house however the latches are on the door so the character is in a panic and has difficulty getting out and this can be shown with a long shot. A pan shot shows the girl looking back and then a close up of the lock again and as she looks a second time with a pan view the man then appears in the door way of the living room with low key lighting to make it more fearful.
We are going to be using a strobe lighting for when there is close ups of the mans body/objects as it represents disorientation and chaos. The fast pace editing is then going to show close up shots of his boots,hands,objects leading up then to his face so we finally get to meet the character. This is when the film will get interesting and terror will start to kick in.
Beginning - There is an establishing shot of the house where my trailer is going to be set on the night time, With this shot I would try to block out any other houses near by to make the girl feel more alone later on in the trailer when you get introduced into the man.
After this I would want an over the shoulder shot to show of the girl looking in mirror and down at her tablets being given to her as you can see her trying to put them down the drain. She then looks up and sees a man behind her quickly and then when she blinks he has gone.
We are going to set the first shot in a bathroom as it would make the girl seem more vulnerable. There is then a long shot being used at the same level of the girl in the bath so you can just see her head. As the camera moves above her she goes under the water.
After this there would then be a close up shot being used to show her come quickly up out of the water when she hears a noise.
When shes up there's a silence and extreme close up to the bath tap dripping to cause tension. There's a extreme close up of the girls face when she starts to hear other noises like creaking. This is when there's fast pace editing of the girl grabbing her stuff/getting a towel on.
There dripping on off her hair just standing still making the silence feel more dramatic and a close up to the drips leading into a black out. With the black out to another scene.
Coming out of the door its all blurred having a flashback to the bathroom from her tipping the tablets down showing how shes got something wrong with her. She goes to check downstairs with a dolly camera following her. When shes at the bottom the camera shows a wide shot showing how the door is open from a far. She then she runs to close it and turns away from it with a medium close up having a relief grin/deep breath. As shes that way there's jump cuts of the man behind and then we see him pop up behind her in the dark without her knowing. As she takes some steps away the man tries to open it she shut and locks it and starts running out towards the front door. The character scrambles to the front door in an attempt to escape the house however the latches are on the door so the character is in a panic and has difficulty getting out and this can be shown with a long shot. A pan shot shows the girl looking back and then a close up of the lock again and as she looks a second time with a pan view the man then appears in the door way of the living room with low key lighting to make it more fearful.
We are going to be using a strobe lighting for when there is close ups of the mans body/objects as it represents disorientation and chaos. The fast pace editing is then going to show close up shots of his boots,hands,objects leading up then to his face so we finally get to meet the character. This is when the film will get interesting and terror will start to kick in.
Organisation
The link above shows the house I am going to be using for my horror teaser trailer, its also shown below. However with the link to Google Maps its shows you the area and more of its surroundings as I have cropped the image.
The picture below is taken from a establishing shot in the film 'Amityville: The Awakening' that is going to be released in 2015. This is a typical big house
where loads of creepy and spooky things can happen in. With a big house it makes it better as
there will be many exciting scenes that can happen for example; hiding in cupboards,
creaking of steps, no houses really near to make a bigger effect of the victim being alone.
The house that I am using (First image) does not look that scary and neither does the second however with dark lighting it will look like a house of terror.
The picture below is the same house that's set in the film 'Amityville: The Awakening' showing how you can make the ordinary house look scary.
Thursday, 23 October 2014
Research into Similar Products
Comparison
I have analysed 2 posters from the same film called 'The Conjuring'. The 2 posters are very different from each other and I wanted to compare what I liked with them and which one I prefer.
I think that the first poster is more scary as the lighting is more darker and it shows Annabelle who is a very scary looking doll. There's not much to the poster as the Woman on the chair is looking away, this creates a mysterious feeling to the posting which makes it scary.
Both of the posters include 'Based on the true case files of the Warrens' and 'From the Director of Saw and Insidious' as they both need to include them as they are the conventions of the poster and also they would both engage the audience more to watching the film.
However even though that ones scarier i prefer the second poster, I have been analysing posters that have been of close ups and they just really interest me as you can see that emotion on there face as I have explained in the analysis above. The facial expressions can give a deeper meaning. The second one is also not a typical layout like the top, the top doesn't have much creativeness to it however with the candle being the 'I' in 'Conjuring' this makes the masthead/picture creative.
I would like to do something like the second one in my poster,i think with the film in the second poster that is an important scene and that's why the creativeness of the candle has been used. I would like to do something creative like this and not basic like the first one. I would definitely want to use a close up like the second one to show things like cuts/eyes/make-up/emotion. Making the film seem more fearful.
I would like to do something like the second one in my poster,i think with the film in the second poster that is an important scene and that's why the creativeness of the candle has been used. I would like to do something creative like this and not basic like the first one. I would definitely want to use a close up like the second one to show things like cuts/eyes/make-up/emotion. Making the film seem more fearful.
Tuesday, 21 October 2014
Drafting and planning
As I said I was going to look at some true stories I have researched and found some from the popular films 'Annabelle' and 'The Conjuring' which are both actually linked together.
The story of Annabelle in the 2014 film is a spin off to the film The Conjuring in 2013, its about what happened to the doll and explains why it got possessed as its in the film The Conjuring. Both of the films are based on true stories which I am going to research.
The story of Annabelle in the 2014 film is a spin off to the film The Conjuring in 2013, its about what happened to the doll and explains why it got possessed as its in the film The Conjuring. Both of the films are based on true stories which I am going to research.
Annabelle is about a girl called Donna who's a student and lives with her room mate Angie, in 1970 Donna was celebrating her birthday and received a present from her mother which is the doll - Annabelle. She leaves the doll on her bed everyday as a reminder of her moms love, however some days when she gets back from work she finds that the doll have moved. Her legs/.arms would be crossed and sometimes on the couch. Then things got serious when notes would be left around the room in pencil saying things like 'Help me' or 'Help us'. One day Donna came home to find Annabelle with blood on her hands on the bed.
Donna finally agreed to bring in a medium. The sensitive sat with the doll and told the girls that long before their apartment had been built there had been a field on that property. A seven year old girl named Annabelle Higgins had been found dead in that field. Her spirit remained, and when the doll came into the house the girl latched on to it. She found Donna and Angie to be trustworthy. She just wanted to stay with them. Donna and Angie just wanted to be nice to the doll however there friend Lou hated it.Lou started having bad dreams, dreams where Annabelle was in his bed, climbing up his leg strangling him as he lay frozen.He would wake up terrified the started to worry about the girls.A few days later he and Angie were hanging out, they heard someone moving around in Donna's room. They froze - was it a break in? Lou crept over to the door, listening to rustling within. He threw open the door and everything was as it should be - except Annabelle was off the bed and sitting in a corner. As he approached the doll Lou was consumed with that feeling, a burning on the back of the neck that indicates someone was staring at you and he spun around. Nobody was there. The room was empty. And then sudden pain on his chest. He looked in his shirt and saw a series of raking claw marks, rough ditches in his flesh that burned. He knew Annabelle had done it.They knew they needed more help, and they turned to an Episcopalian priest, who in turned called in Ed and Lorraine Warren.
Donna finally agreed to bring in a medium. The sensitive sat with the doll and told the girls that long before their apartment had been built there had been a field on that property. A seven year old girl named Annabelle Higgins had been found dead in that field. Her spirit remained, and when the doll came into the house the girl latched on to it. She found Donna and Angie to be trustworthy. She just wanted to stay with them. Donna and Angie just wanted to be nice to the doll however there friend Lou hated it.Lou started having bad dreams, dreams where Annabelle was in his bed, climbing up his leg strangling him as he lay frozen.He would wake up terrified the started to worry about the girls.A few days later he and Angie were hanging out, they heard someone moving around in Donna's room. They froze - was it a break in? Lou crept over to the door, listening to rustling within. He threw open the door and everything was as it should be - except Annabelle was off the bed and sitting in a corner. As he approached the doll Lou was consumed with that feeling, a burning on the back of the neck that indicates someone was staring at you and he spun around. Nobody was there. The room was empty. And then sudden pain on his chest. He looked in his shirt and saw a series of raking claw marks, rough ditches in his flesh that burned. He knew Annabelle had done it.They knew they needed more help, and they turned to an Episcopalian priest, who in turned called in Ed and Lorraine Warren.
A priest performed an exorcism on the apartment and the Warrens took possession of the doll. They put it in a bag and began the long drive home; Ed agreed to stay off the highways because there was a concern that the demon might mess with the car,as they drove on the back roads, the engine kept cutting out, the power steering kept failing.Ed opened the bag, sprinkled the doll with holy water and the disturbances stopped.Ed left the doll next to his desk; it began levitating. A couple of weeks Annabelle was back to her old tricks; she started appearing in different rooms in the Warren home so they called in a Catholic priest to exorcise Annabelle. The priest didn't take it seriously, telling Annabelle "You're just a doll" however on his way home the priest's brakes failed, and his car was totaled in a horrible accident. He survived.
Eventually the Warrens built a locked case for Annabelle, and she resides there to this day. The locked case seems to have kept the doll from moving around, but it seems like that whatever terrible entity is attached to it is still there, waiting.
Monday, 20 October 2014
Drafting and Planning
I have researched some new things to try and look at different scenes of different films in a new way. I have researched some gifs which have shown me some of the most scariest scenes just in a picture.
As you can see this is really effective to be in a movie trailer. If I was to use this in a movie trailer I would make some tension before it to have a build up. I think with this sound would be key as with Diegetic sound there should be sounds like the footsteps of a man and screaming. The lighting is dark which I think its more effective as if there was someone coming you would be able to see there feet knowing the time is near for when the person gets dragged. So not showing this keeps the audience alarmed. I think the wide-shot is good as this called also create suspense as you don't know if something is going to pop out leading the audience to come to many conclusions. The Mise-En-Scene is effective as setting this clip under a bed - it can go either way. The blood on her instantly shows danger and even though its in black and white you still know what it is.
I have been saying and making ideas about what I could use in my trailer and quick cut-shots have been one. This shows how this could be a cut-shot in my trailer. How everything is fine one minute and then in the other shot there's loads of blood and then it goes back to normal again. This would be effective in my teaser trailer as the girl has something wrong in her head which could be shown as reality (Everything being normal) and then when something quickly flashes into something that could be when somethings playing with her in her head.
A wide shot is being used here which is very effective for something to be behind someone or just to pop up. Its a great way to instantly scare the viewers without any suspension so its just like a shock. This would be good to use on a quick shot connecting with the gif above as when it clicks to her head playing up there could be a shot like this as it would be petrifying for the audience to see.
I really like this gif as its really effective. When watching it you can just tell that somethings in the wardrobe that shouldn't be. Its another wide shot to show it in the background making us feel anxious about if she is going to find out or not.
Organisation
With this Make-Up tutorial the main things I like is the eye make-up. I like the eye contacts that are used and would like to use some on the actress that i'm going to use. I would like the contacts to be bright blue as seen in the tutorial or black as these would both stand out.
I like the bruising around the eyes and on the chest. This looks very real and I would like to use this in my teaser trailer as the plot is that the girl is going crazy, she could do some weird stuff that makes her get these bruises that creeps the audience out.
I don't think I am going to use blood on the neck that she has used, I think if I was doing a different genre to horror like Slasher or a horror to do with zombies, this would be useful to it however i would just want to used the eye Make-Up work and the bruising.
Friday, 17 October 2014
Target Audience
By looking at my Survey Monkey i have seen by the results that people most likely want to go and watch a film if its based on true events.
So in response to the answers I got I am going to research some films that have been based on true events and find the real story behind it.
This will interest me as it may give me some more little ideas for my teaser trailer making it come together.
So in response to the answers I got I am going to research some films that have been based on true events and find the real story behind it.
This will interest me as it may give me some more little ideas for my teaser trailer making it come together.
Organisation
This table shows how many Blog posts i have done since the start of the year under certain categories, having this will help me know what i need to do more on and know what i'm doing good on. I have since last week made 2 more posts of Drafting and another on Similar Products. I only have done 2 posts on Organisation as last week i posted another one in the organisation category so need to do more on this to make sure that my blog is mixed. The things i could do for this is make story boards about my movie so when i go to film i know exactly where everyone stands and what scenes after the next. I could sort out my characters and props / location for organisation too. I will have to do this in the next couple of weeks.
Thursday, 16 October 2014
Research into similar products
Director - Martin Scorsese
Genre - Horror/Thriller
Plot - It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.
At the end of this film it is shown that the main patient that they are looking for is actually him, he's one of the patients trying to tell them / go through the story to make him get his memory back. You can not see how it's shown in the trailer as they didn't want it to be obvious. I need to make slight clips in my trailer give the idea of what it's about as if I don't do that it just seems like there is no story line. I could do this by flashbacks to objects or scenes that would make the audience puzzled but get there head around.
Towards the end of every trailer I have analysed there has been many cut shots onto different scenes. It does this in this trailer towards the end using flashbacks in it also which moves into my idea. You can see the family that he had and it crumble away with a wide shot showing fire in the background making you have an idea that that's how she might of died.
The Non-Diegetic sound is very effective as it tells you a little about the film 'You don't know what fear can do to the mind ' this makes you wonder is what you are seeing actually real or in the mind. In my trailer I need to decide if I would want to use a voice over or writing on the screen as I think both are effective with words.
The Mise-En-Scene on the trailer is very important as you can see when he first arrives to The Shutter Island as you can look and see how he's important and has a role as a cop with his uniform and badge as it does a close zoom to it. However towards the end he just looks like everyone else all in white. This can tell is how things are changing and how they might be treating him different. I have to consider in my trailer what costumes / props I am going to want. I think for the girl I want to make her be normal as this causes no suspicion as to what is going on with her. I think her make up or eye colour could change when she's thinking what she's seeing trying to engage the audience as that's when she's going crazy.
I like the way the camera is used in some of the scenes shown in the trailer, for example when you see the woman being normal and sitting there and then its a quick cut shot to her then with blood on. This is effective and i would like to use this with certain objects or people in the film to make effect showing who's the victim, who's the bad guy and what sort of objects are important in the film.
The editing of the zooming on the scene when the girl writes in the notebook 'Run' after he opens it there's like a blurred effect on the and a zooming straight away. This makes you get put on ease and when everything starts to turn. Its effective because it causes tension to the audience thinking if anything is going to be bad for the main actor.
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Drafting and Planning
The lighting is key in my horror teaser trailer and I am going to have to be filming my teaser trailer mostly at night and making sure that its not going to be a sunny day etc. I need to make sure i have certain effects like not having the lights on having dim effects. And also adding effects after filming. I have shown by two pictures how lighting is key to make sure that i can make everything in my movie be as horrifying as it can be to make the audience frightened.
I have went on http://ipiccy.com/ to show how the lighting makes all the differences to a scene. I made sure that I would darken the picture to make is seem more creepy making the effect of the hand stand out as it's the most black. I used two different effects as with the first picture I thought I could make it even scarier. I would like to use certain effects on my trailer or just make the lighting low when filming as I think it sets the scene more.
Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Drafting and Planning
I researched what dramatic/frightening scenes you could include with a horror trailer to get the audience terrified.
There are certain objects / places where a scene is really set and i have worked on some ideas that i would use in my teaser trailer.
Ideas
I think to cause tension in my movie i should have a close up on the tap dripping. This could be after she hears something with silence of that and then more noise. I think this should be the only slow part in the trailer as i want the rest to be quick cut shots and panicking etc
Another thing i would think would be effective to use is a phone ringing, in many films such as 'scream', 'when a stranger calls', 'the ring' and 'the caller' whenever the phone rings it causes tension as who is it? do they know them? if not how did they get there number?
I think in my film i would like to use this because i would want to like the tap keep causing tension. It could be the man that she thinks is after her calling when its just no one.
Also another thing I could think about is doors opening by themselves. As i am doing a trailer about a girl who thinks shes seeing stuff but they are really in her head there could be a clip of it opening slowly but then it slamming shut as its not actually open there could be a flickering light to add effect like shes back in the real world when it closes.
With my trailer i want to do loads of cut shots fast so it builds up and as i researched trailers it seems that the directors do this towards the end of the trailer and not at the start to build it up and then end it. I would like to have a flashing effect of some sort so every time a new shot comes on that happens and a Non-Diegetic sound happens to make the scenes more alarming to the audience.
Friday, 10 October 2014
Research into similar products
Genre- Horror/Thriller
Plot- A young girl named Kristen awakens in a psychiatric hospital after setting a farmhouse ablaze, and finds herself stalked by a malevolent ghost in this psychological shocker from celebrated horror director. Badly battered and seemingly stricken with amnesia, Kristen forges a fragile friendship with fellow patients Sarah , Iris , Emily , and Zoey as her compassionate therapist, Dr. Stringer , works to uncover the source of her mysterious condition. Later, at night, when the lights in her remote ward go dim, Kristen is confronted by an imposing phantom that seems intent on dragging her screaming into the darkness. Eventually, the other girls in the ward begin to vanish, one by one. Now, the harder Kristen fights to avoid falling prey to her shadowy pursuer, the more convinced she becomes that no patient who's checked in to North Bend Psychiatric Hospital ever comes out alive.
In the Plot Summary above and in the trailer you can see how it does not show how the story ends how that is a turn in it and a shock for the audience.
The story ends with the girl being the only one in the psychiatric unit in the hospital and none of the girls are in there with her so when it says 'no patient who's checked in to North Bend Psychiatric Hospital ever comes out alive' it is because no one else has checked in and the director has tricked you.
In the trailer you can just see how you get freaked out and there's no way you could tell that they are all her etc.
I think this trailer would help me for ideas for my trailer as i can see how the director does the work of the story line without giving too much away.
Camerawork
At the start of the Trailer the camera work is effective as its approximately 2 seconds for each camera shot to be shown. This makes the audience focus on whats happening. Its effective because it tells a lot about the story in only 6 seconds and this is essential for me to do in my teaser trailer as i wont have a lot of time. The establishing shot shows the psychiatric hospital giving us a insight to the story.
Mise-En-Scene
The clothing that all the rest of the girls are wearing as shes entering the ward is normal, they all look like normal girls with everyday clothing so nothing suggests that these girls have a reason to be in the psychiatric hospital. However the main girl 'Kristen' is in a uniform with her hair all messy etc. This is showing how she has a problem and is different from the rest.
The lighting is key in the film as on the ward there is always flickering making it look dark and mysterious
Organisation
Me and Caitlin are still trying to make sure that we know what we are going to do for our trailer so we know exactly what to do when we are filming.
As we have thought of different things for our trailer such as different clips we need to know what is wrong with the girl - what age she is going to be, looking like etc. Therefore we have decided that for our trailer there is going to be young girl at the age of 18 who thinks that she has a stalker after her and potentially trying to kill / kidnap her. However as its a teaser trailer and the definition of a teaser trailer is - "A teaser trailer for an upcoming film, television program, video game or similar, is usually released long in advance of the product, so as to 'tease'." so therefore we are going to do a twist to it and put a quote in the film trailer that will lead the audience confused and wanting to watch it. The man that is thought to be stalking her isn't actually and she is just imagining it in her head.
To do this it will be hard as we would need to make it clear but not too clear to the audience what is going on; some of the ideas that we could use for this is
-Flashbacks
-Her dropping pills down the sink
-Her walking out of a doctors
-Her getting a prescription-The make up-Her acting weird
These could all be used to show how something is wrong with her and me and Caitlin would have to pick the acceptable ones to be used.
Films I could research are ones such as The Ward.
I am going to do research into some films with the same story line to see how they do it and if it is clear or not, making sure that the trailer isn't giving too much away.
As we have thought of different things for our trailer such as different clips we need to know what is wrong with the girl - what age she is going to be, looking like etc. Therefore we have decided that for our trailer there is going to be young girl at the age of 18 who thinks that she has a stalker after her and potentially trying to kill / kidnap her. However as its a teaser trailer and the definition of a teaser trailer is - "A teaser trailer for an upcoming film, television program, video game or similar, is usually released long in advance of the product, so as to 'tease'." so therefore we are going to do a twist to it and put a quote in the film trailer that will lead the audience confused and wanting to watch it. The man that is thought to be stalking her isn't actually and she is just imagining it in her head.
To do this it will be hard as we would need to make it clear but not too clear to the audience what is going on; some of the ideas that we could use for this is
-Flashbacks
-Her dropping pills down the sink
-Her walking out of a doctors
-Her getting a prescription-The make up-Her acting weird
These could all be used to show how something is wrong with her and me and Caitlin would have to pick the acceptable ones to be used.
Films I could research are ones such as The Ward.
I am going to do research into some films with the same story line to see how they do it and if it is clear or not, making sure that the trailer isn't giving too much away.
Thursday, 9 October 2014
Research into Similar Products
Director- Eric England
Genre- Horror/Thriller/Drama
Plot- After getting wasted at a friend's party and having unprotected sex with a strange dude (a necrophiliac to boot), a young woman slowly morphs into a virally infected, flesh-rotting mutant.
I'm still looking at different posters but finding similar ones interesting, I think having a close up of someone is very effective with at least one quote and the film title to fill the title of teaser and not giving too much away. I'd want the quote to be a quote that has been put in the trailer to connect with the audience more.
The picture has some sort of dirty/sand effect. There is no dark effect that's surrounding her, this makes you think that the girl is just and was probably actually normal. Its a dull photo with nothing really showing just the main features of the face which I think is good as having the rest of the picture dull makes the features that the publisher wanted to stand out, stand out.
You can see how the film is to do with a psychological horror as her eyes look like she's been possessed with one bleeding and one completely white. This is the main thing that stands out on the poster for me, it draws my attention to it making the audience feel frightened thinking the film is going to be worse.
Another thing that is creepy is the mouth, the make up wok is great as it does not look fake at all and the blood actually looks fresh - like its dripping. I crustiness of the lips fit in with the whole effect as the effect is quite bitty and so is the lips. Just blends in all together.
There are many scars on the face and neck and seeing this it makes you think the girl has had a past with danger, I would want to have some sort of scars or something that stands out on the villain in my teaser trailer.
The picture has some sort of dirty/sand effect. There is no dark effect that's surrounding her, this makes you think that the girl is just and was probably actually normal. Its a dull photo with nothing really showing just the main features of the face which I think is good as having the rest of the picture dull makes the features that the publisher wanted to stand out, stand out.
You can see how the film is to do with a psychological horror as her eyes look like she's been possessed with one bleeding and one completely white. This is the main thing that stands out on the poster for me, it draws my attention to it making the audience feel frightened thinking the film is going to be worse.
Another thing that is creepy is the mouth, the make up wok is great as it does not look fake at all and the blood actually looks fresh - like its dripping. I crustiness of the lips fit in with the whole effect as the effect is quite bitty and so is the lips. Just blends in all together.
There are many scars on the face and neck and seeing this it makes you think the girl has had a past with danger, I would want to have some sort of scars or something that stands out on the villain in my teaser trailer.
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
Target Audience
Monday, 6 October 2014
Research into Similar Products
There are 2 establishing shots in the trailer, one of the girl sitting in the car and one of the house. This tells us before even watching the rest of the trailer that they are moving into the new house. The wide shot shows the family with the Diegetic sound of 'Home Sweet Home' you feel like the family is normal and has no worries to it. There is a Non-Diegetic sound that is also played that seems like a family song and not nothing anything to worry about. You can see from the other wide shot of the girl standing in her room that they are moving in as she has boxes and no bed sheets etc. giving you a peak of the story line. From the way she is talking and what she is saying 'Besides the fact...' makes us feel sorry for her as with another wide shot you can see all the class students looking at her making us feel how she might not fit in/has no friends etc.
There is many wide shots in the trailer, after the effect of the black screen you can see how there is a divide in the trailer now and this is where it goes downhill. You get to see the sick boy in the bed with the voice over of the mom when its showing letting you know why they moved here, this is when the audience stops feeling sorry for the girl. It gives you an insight to the families life and what it might be like. You can tell that they have sad and depressing life as with the two shot of the mother and son where you can see she is kissing him on the head, you can see how she would do anything as when you can hear the Diegetic sound she says 'I love you more than anything in the world'. There is two close up shots one after another of the daughter and then the mother. You can see the emotion on the girls face and how she seems miserable, the audience may feel like she feels like this as from that shot it cuts to her mom closing the door making us feel how she probably don't get attention with the mom as the mom looking at her has no emotion on her face.
You can hear from the new scene how it starts off with a Diegetic sound, the sound of the boys breathing machine. There is a Non-Diegetic sound that makes the scene more mysterious. It has close ups of the window, showing how its open giving the sound effect of the breeze making us as the audience think someone's broke in causing tension. There's another close up/wide shot of the boy. Its a close up of his face from a upward angle showing him sleeping, you can see a shadow in front of him then you can relate it to the window being open making audience come to conclusions.
You see that with the close up how something's waking the girl up, there's an effect used to cause dramatic effect to create a sense of disorientation how she's just woke up. I'd like to use an effect like this in my trailer flicking through different scary images to create fear. The first real scary scene in the trailer is when there's a close up of the back of the girl closing the window. There's sudden shot clips after that all go after each other going from the flickering of the light to the little girl. Having a long shot to show where she is in the house and what her outfit is etc. You can see that it was her outside James' door answering all the questions of the shadow etc.
There's a wide shot to show the young girl, the main girl and the boy James all there when the girl wants to give him a kiss. You can see how she is slowly moving towards him as this will cause tension as you think something's about to happen to him/her. When he opens his eyes makes us as the audience jump as we didn't think it was possible. There's even a wider shot used after this to show the girl looking at the scene. This causes confusion as she's already in the scene and cant be in there twice. With the effect of the light flickering this also makes it more terrifying to watch.
The effect of the girl jumping up is really effective making you know that it was some sort of dream or thought in her head. You can hear the voice of the Diegetic sound the man is saying 'No case of a James ever waking up' as he's saying it the camera focuses on the girls emotions in her face making it seem like she's still confused about what happened as it probably seemed so real. There's a point of view shot of the man shining down onto the camera the light making it so real and makes you feel apart.
There's an establishing shot again but on the night rather than in the day showing the comparison, you can see now how the house looking threatening and scary. Gives the audience a clue that it changes from the day to the night. There's a series of clips of different items in the house after this. There's a close up of each things in the room, it starts off with the dolls. Dolls are usually known for children and sweet for them to play with however with films like 'Child's Play 1/2/3' and the new film 'Annabelle'. This makes you feel scared that something is going to be coming up in the room keeping the audience on edge. There's a close up of the main actresses face, you can see the frightened/confused look on her face as she isn't looking at the camera she is looking straight forward. This builds up tension as we can tell that the next clip will the thing shes actually staring at...
There's a medium shot of a boy however you can only see black. This is very effective as it's more scarier as it gives a mystery to the trailer as to who is this person? It doesn't look like the person is going to attack however it is still creepy as the question you're asking is why is he there? I would want to use dark lighting in my teaser trailer also because it makes everything more agitated as you want to know what it is.There's a medium close up shot of the door, you can see most of it and how it slams, its a medium close up as you want to see how its in her room. Making you know that something supernatural is bothering her as there was nothing else to shut the door.
The Non-Diegetic sounds are very effective in this scene, it builds tension up to everything that is about to come making your eyes glued to the screen and knowing that every time it beats down that something will happen. The words 'Kill them' relates with the history of the story with the voice so this makes us now know that throughout the film we are waiting for death and tragedy. This description of this is used with various camera angles like wide shot, extreme wide shot, close up and dissolve to end it off knowing that the time is back to present. These are all effective as it doesn't take to much of the trailer up and doesn't give a deep description just what you need to know. Using these cut shots after each other ensures that the audience won't get bored watching. I would want to use these in my trailer and use it of close ups of objects as well as faces for example weapon with blood on.
When the insects are under James' body makes you feel ill looking at it, there's a extreme close up shot showing his back and the detail of whats on there making it look worse.
You start to figure out that the film is a psychological horror and how its playing with people's mind, i like this idea and would like to reinforce it on the teaser trailer that i am going to be making as i think its interesting and wont make the audience bored or predict what will happen.
There is a scene in the trailer of a extreme close up, this is effective and in my trailer i would like to use a lot of these as i think it shows the more scarier features to the victim/villain.
The ending in film trailers always seem to be the most important as they try and get everything in a short space and that's why the use cut shots too. At the end of this trailer there is loads not giving to much away. This is really effective and essential that i do this in mine.
The ending of the trailer is another close up of the ill twin brother James, hes better and looks well. It has normal and calm music over it making everything seem confusing. James has a type of evil look on him that makes you fearful as you know hes not normal. The words 'Kill them' over makes the audience think that he is a target to why this has all happened. The music over saying the words kill them makes you more alarmed and nervous as to who dies and who stays alive... Leaving it as sort of a cliff hanger of the trailer which is a good idea for me to use in mine.
The ending of the trailer is another close up of the ill twin brother James, hes better and looks well. It has normal and calm music over it making everything seem confusing. James has a type of evil look on him that makes you fearful as you know hes not normal. The words 'Kill them' over makes the audience think that he is a target to why this has all happened. The music over saying the words kill them makes you more alarmed and nervous as to who dies and who stays alive... Leaving it as sort of a cliff hanger of the trailer which is a good idea for me to use in mine.
Friday, 3 October 2014
Organisation
In lesson me and Caitlin have been doing different mind maps about the; props, setting, cast and ideas about the film. We have included thoughts about the 4 main conventions; mise-en-scene, sound, editing and camera.
Mise-en-scene
-The girl is going to be wearing a dressing gown as we are doing a bath scene, this would also make the girl seem vulnerable and the audience more scared for her.
-The setting is going to be at a normal house, the typical ones that are used in horror movies. This makes it seem like its just an ordinary girl, it makes the audience be able to put themselves in her shoes as if it was in a weird location they would not be able to do this.
-The girl is going to have some make-up on to make her look drained as in one scene we show how she doesn't take her tablets, we would do this by applying cream onto her face and then white powder to make her look more pale, then we would put eye shadow and the bottom of her eye instead of the top to make sure that it looks like she has bags. This would make it look like she is paranoid and cant sleep because of her stalker.
-The man that is stalking is going to have big boots and we could use this as an image in the film with the strobe lighting to make sure how you know hes intimidating.
Editing
Camera
Cast
Beatrice Dix - The main girl
Samuel Barnacle - The stalker
Beatrice Dix - The main girl
Samuel Barnacle - The stalker
Props
- We are going to use a strobe light at the end of the film to add more effect to the man, because as its a teaser trailer you using this light you will not be able to see his face clearly so it would remain a mystery of who he is.
-We are using the bath for one of our main scenes, we are using this to make the girl seem more vulnerable.
-Using the telephone for the girl calling the police, doing this and using the words 'he is here again' makes the audience know shes called more than once and has got a stalker.
- We are going to use a strobe light at the end of the film to add more effect to the man, because as its a teaser trailer you using this light you will not be able to see his face clearly so it would remain a mystery of who he is.
-We are using the bath for one of our main scenes, we are using this to make the girl seem more vulnerable.
-Using the telephone for the girl calling the police, doing this and using the words 'he is here again' makes the audience know shes called more than once and has got a stalker.
Mise-en-scene
-The girl is going to be wearing a dressing gown as we are doing a bath scene, this would also make the girl seem vulnerable and the audience more scared for her.
-The setting is going to be at a normal house, the typical ones that are used in horror movies. This makes it seem like its just an ordinary girl, it makes the audience be able to put themselves in her shoes as if it was in a weird location they would not be able to do this.
-The girl is going to have some make-up on to make her look drained as in one scene we show how she doesn't take her tablets, we would do this by applying cream onto her face and then white powder to make her look more pale, then we would put eye shadow and the bottom of her eye instead of the top to make sure that it looks like she has bags. This would make it look like she is paranoid and cant sleep because of her stalker.
-The man that is stalking is going to have big boots and we could use this as an image in the film with the strobe lighting to make sure how you know hes intimidating.
Editing
-In the trailer we are going to have to edit each different frame to fade into each other so it doesn't look unprofessional.
-We are going to edit that when the girl comes out the bathroom everything is blurred to her - connecting to the pills she is not taking.
Sound
With the sound we are going to use loads all throughout the trailer to make it build up to the main scary parts, even when there is talking the sound will go quiet however you will still be able to hear it.
-We are going to edit that when the girl comes out the bathroom everything is blurred to her - connecting to the pills she is not taking.
Sound
With the sound we are going to use loads all throughout the trailer to make it build up to the main scary parts, even when there is talking the sound will go quiet however you will still be able to hear it.
Camera
We are using many different camera techniques in our movie trailer
-Close up of the girl at the start as she is looking direct in the camera which shows how she is looking directly into the mirror.
-There's many camera shots with the bath such as long shots, extreme close ups and close ups - they are all going to be used on different things such as the taps, her and the bath.
-When the girl is running downstairs the camera is going to be held so its a point of view shot and how its coming from her,
-When the girl is standing there its also going to be like the camera is of point of view when the man is walking behind her until she turns and then it changes.
-There will be zooms with such as zooming of the establishing shot of the house and onto doors
-Panning making things more tense for the audience
We still haven't planned all of the shots yet as we haven't completed it however we will think of more for the rest of it
-Close up of the girl at the start as she is looking direct in the camera which shows how she is looking directly into the mirror.
-There's many camera shots with the bath such as long shots, extreme close ups and close ups - they are all going to be used on different things such as the taps, her and the bath.
-When the girl is running downstairs the camera is going to be held so its a point of view shot and how its coming from her,
-When the girl is standing there its also going to be like the camera is of point of view when the man is walking behind her until she turns and then it changes.
-There will be zooms with such as zooming of the establishing shot of the house and onto doors
-Panning making things more tense for the audience
We still haven't planned all of the shots yet as we haven't completed it however we will think of more for the rest of it
Thursday, 2 October 2014
Drafting and Planning
I used the visual thesaurus to research words associated with horror to give me ideas of what I could use for my horror movie title. The words hell and obsessed and mysterious came to mind of words that I thought might have more words coming off with much more ideas. However none of the words are really out there and I would like to use it again with different word such as hunted, haunted or psycho to see if there's any I like then.
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
Research into Similar Products
There's another type of magazine called 'Little White Lies' it has no headings just focuses on the main film that they want the magazine to be about.
The masthead is in the center of the cover to dominate all of the page so that there isn't much negative space. You can see at the top who published the magazine which is 'Little white lies' you can see how they wanted the focus to be more on the black swan and not them.
The masthead is in the center of the cover to dominate all of the page so that there isn't much negative space. You can see at the top who published the magazine which is 'Little white lies' you can see how they wanted the focus to be more on the black swan and not them.
The main cover line takes up all of the page showing you how the black swan is the main focus of the magazine and how the whole issue has been dedicated to the movie.
The image is a sketched close-up of Natalie Portman who is the main actress with the picture having no expression on her face looking quite lost showing how in the film her character loses herself and who she really is in trying to achieve her goal. The feathers look like they are falling gracefully which if watching the film the ending shows Natalie Portman falling showing how she is falling into reality from whats in her head.
The colour scheme is black and white, this puts effect on the drawing as you can see the shaded bits etc. more which makes it appreciated more.
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