Further Poster Designs

These are refined poster ideas using Serif DrawPlus8 and our new photography!

Film Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures produced films such as 'The Shining', 'House of Wax' and 'The Exorcist', which are highly popular horror movies. However, I feel that the use of this production company may induce preconceptions of our film being 'childlike', as the company is also well known for producing films such as 'Harry Potter' and classic Warner Bros. cartoons.

Paramount pictures distributed films such as 'Paranormal Activity', 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'Friday the 13th'. As a company they are very well known, and have produced popular horror films for decades. The same issue exists however, as the introduction may seem too upbeat for our psychological horror. The company does have associations with family films such as 'Mean Girls'. For this reason, we will probably research into more independent production companies that specialise in horror.


Twisted Pictures have produced films such as the 'Saw' series and 'Repo! The Genetic Opera', and are known for producing films that have a dark quality. I feel this production company's logo will look appropriate before our teaser trailer as it is on a black screen, which is how our teaser trailer opens. We will download this production logo and see how well they integrate together.

Website Design - Misfits

On the E4 Misfits website there is an interacive 'notice board' containing videos and a game about the character Nathan, who was stuck in a coffin at the end of series 1.

This website shows good use of conversion, as fake Facebook and Twitter profiles are set up for each of the characters and are updated regularly despite series 2 having not been aired yet, which is engaging for the show's fans.
As this website is tacking a similar situational storyline to our own teaser trailer, we could take inspiration from it.



Abyss poster idea

Pan's Labryinth Poster Deconstruction

Pan's Labryinth website

http://www.panslabyrinth.com/

This is the website for the movie Pan's Labryinth.



The Unborn: Poster deconstruction



Questionnaire results

This response showed a teenage girl to be more ralatable in the film. Comments we recieved were that a female would be more vulnerable, therefore it would add to the suspense of the trailer. As our teaser trailer is a psycological horror, our target audience are teenagers.

This question presented a fairly even split in the response, however explicit violence is slightly preferred. We will therefore aim to have explicit voilence in our teaser trailer, if possible, but it won't be a huge drawback if we are unable to because a lot of people asked voted for suggested violence.

 

This result is reassuring as we had already decided that our psychological thriller would tackle the theme of claustrophobia, using a coffin setting.

The results show that the majority would feel more intrigued by the teaser trailer if the narrative was left unexplained, so we will reveal as little of it as possible.

Clearly, the results show that almost everyone agreed that diegetic sound heightens intensity. Therefore, we will use mostly diegetic sound in the more intense parts of our trailer and probably mostly non-diegetic in the calmer parts.

Handheld shots appear popular in action scenes, so we will aim to include some in our trailer. However, many people also said 'sometimes' they like them- presumably they don't like handheld shots that look bad, so we won't include ours if they aren't good.



Ideas - The Strangers

Watching 'The Strangers', I felt that one particular scene could be inspirational (whereas a summarised deconstruction for the actual teaser trailer for the film is minimalist, but somehow still manages to use all of the scenes from the film where something actually happens and completely explains the film's plot).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC89amjY_E8

From 8:00 onwards, the use of sound moving around the character and the darkness surrounding her really has the potential to build the scene to a large climax- possibly if we film between 1-5 minutes of footage in this style, we could use sections of the footage throughout to build towards the dramatic peak of our teaser trailer.

Codes and Conventions of the British Drama and Horror genres

Horror
We have watched two classic horror movies, 'Scream' and 'Halloween', with the aim to find recurring or iconic codes and conventions within them.

• An initial introduction into 'normal'/socially accepted daily life.
• A grotesque or unexplained death, with the murderer either known or unknown.
• Teenagers/youths in an iscolated setting, either physically or just 'home alone'.
• Enigmatic phone calls or other form of communication.
• An iscolated, vulnerable victim
• A killer that does not die successfully (leaving ending of the film open for speculation/sequels)

British Drama

We have watched two British Drama films with different ‘feels’ – Trainspotting and Four Weddings and a Funeral - to find the common factors within them.

• Smoking and drinking 
• Violence
• Regional dialect
• British scenery – for example Big Ben
• The typical British sense of humour –Dry jokes, swearing

Syd Field's 3-Act plot structure research