Magazine Front Cover

For my film trailer I have produced a possible front cover design for the popular film magazine...Total Film, after analysing actual front covers of Total Film magazine. I have looked at previous front covers for this popular magazine and taken notes on what makes them so effective in their job, and what factors help the front cover stand out to the buyer on the shop shelve such as title size, colour, pictures and other information advertised on the front cover of the mag.

Horror Trailer Evaluation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_UxLEqd074

The Paranormal Activity trailer is a great example of what we want to do as it isn't a associated with stereotypical horror films and is different in the fact that it is a scary, thrilling film, simply by the way it is filmed and edited along with music.
Another key factor in this trailer we would like to included is the restriction notice at the begining of the trailer because the film is an 18, as this will make the trailer look even more professional and realistic.

Horror Trailers

In general, all all horror trailers include either, blood, gore, scary scenes, jumpy bits, quick editing, and the best horror trailers...all of these things. However; me and my class mate aren't going to follow the lines of bloody and gore to an extent to which most do, but focus more on the freaky, unusual happenings side, planning to scare our viewers this way instead.

Also, all good horror trailers give a brief insight to the story line if not more. This is something we are really wanting to do and plan to do at the beginning with some writing, as well as the rest of the footage we use throughout the trailer. We already had thought of this as we were writing our story board and have drawn up a shot/scene in the trailer that includes one of the characters sort of explaining that "weird stuff has been going on in the house".

 Furthermore; another key factor we wish to include, which we will check after publishing a questionnaire, is that the trailer makes the view want to go and see the film and find out more about the film! The main purpose of a trailer for a upcoming film, is to get a many people to come and watch the film as possible and buy a ticket. If a trailer does not do this, less people will want to go and see it, not as many tickets will be sold, and therefore the film is more likely to make a financial loss. My class mate and I plan to place a question in our questionnaire asking whether or not the person would want to go and see the film at the cinema. If the general answer is a no, we will continue to edit the trailer to make it better, taking into consideration how the viewers think we could make it better and get them to want to watch it at a cinema.

Story Board

For our trailer, my class mate and I came up with a story board for our trailer which includes brief shots and idea's we plan to film, and use, also along with commenting on how we should edit between and different shots to gain the effect we want.

Age Certificate

Due to the some of the language which is used in the trailer, and which would most probably be used in the actual film if it was made, we have decided to give the film a 18 rating. However; we do not base this age restriction on pure bad language. If the film was made, their are certain scenes and shots we would include which are not suitable for viewers under the age of 18 and not just because of visual scenes, but also because of the psychological effect the film could have on viewers. We have discussed the possibility of lowering it to a 15, however we feel that our target market is the 18's and over and this is the sort of film they go and see.

Final Piece Change

Due to certain and recent factors such as limited resources available to us in regards to suitable filming locations to fit the story line and overall whole genre of the trailer, we have decided this idea is not practical or visible to us. These reasons were not foreseen and highly inappropriate for us. For these reasons we have decided to change our trailer to a horror trailer. We will use and refer to research techniques we used to find out key information which would help us for our basketball trailer constantly and to great detail but this time for a horror whilst we are filming and planing the filming in the limited time we now have left to us.

The new idea which we have includes a group of friends, whom one has passed their driving test. They have a crash in the forest and one of the friends dies. 1 Year later, strange things start to happen at their house they all live in together. Rather than focus on the stereotypical horror trailer, we aren't going to focus on blood, gore, and horrible things, rather we are going to focus more on the paranormal side of the happenings, and try to make the trailer scary and jump simply by filming things which are simply weird and will make the viewers question how it was done, and hopefully give them a goose bump or two. Throughout the trailer, we plan to have the storyline sort of explained and then to continue with short, snappy clips, which we will build up with the music to create even more suspense and tension. We also plan to have a jumpy bit at the end, but how we are to do this is still to be decided.

The name of the trailer, we have decided is going to be called ... THE HAUNTED!

Final Poster

After some customer research, taking on board peoples different opinions on what was good and what was bad about each poster, and what could be done to them, using other key characteristics from the other designs to make an overall final design better. We analysed this helpful, constructive, research information and I then in tern used it to come up with a final design for our promotional Poster, which once shown to many people who gave the feedback, said how good it was , and how much they liked it.