Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Friday, 23 March 2012
Questionaire
Questionnaire
How old are you?
12-15 16-19 20-24 25+
Gender?
Male Female
What is your favourite Horror genre?
Supernatural Gory Thriller True story Horror Sci-fi
Do you watch the trailer before seeing a movie?
Yes No
If yes, then why?
Where do you watch films?
Cinema Internet TV
How often do you watch horror films?
Daily Weekly Monthly Rarely
What’s the best advertising for a new horror film? _
Billboard poster TV Magazine Trailer
What was the last horror film you saw?
Do have a favorite actor/actress that you like to see in horror films (please state who and why)
What is your favourite horror film?
What is your least favourite horror film?
How do you like to find out about horror films (please state why)
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Minutes of meetings
Minutes of meetings
Meeting 1:
Date: Friday 6th January 2012
Time: 10:15
Room: Media room
People attended: Olivia, Holly and Gifty
Purpose: ideas for trailer e.g. actors, props, possible locations, story boarding and name of the movie. Name of movie “Scarlet’s Revenge” Locations: hospital, basement, car park and bathroom Actors: Gifty, Anah, Kerri, Will and David
Murderer: Anah
Dad: David
Doctors: Gifty, Kerri, Will and Diwas
Meeting 2:
Date: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Time: 11:51
Room: Media room
People attended: Olivia, Holly, Gifty and Agne
Purpose: Decide roles of who is doing magazine cover, poster, production logo, editing.
Holly- production logo and editing Olivia- Magazine cover and editing Gifty- magazine cover and editing Agne- work on blog
A2 Production Schedule
A2 Production Schedule
Date
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Action
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Done
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Week One
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Given brief, brainstorm ideas, begin research into existing horror films, two short summary analysis and front cover collage.
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Week Two
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Secondary research into existing trailers and films. Highlight key information.
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Week Three
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Detailed analysis of a horror film
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Week Four
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Research two horror films and write a comparative analysis and annotate two existing film poster
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Week Five
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Detailed analysis of a teaser trailer and trailer. Annotate an existing film magazine cover
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Week Six
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Form a group of four, have a group meeting and write down minutes- brainstorm potential ideas and finalize roles
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Week Seven
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Produce a production schedule and group project proposal and a questionnaire
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Week Eight
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Summary of research findings and discuss potential locations
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Week Nine
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Produce first draft of storyboard and organise props, actors, locations and equipment
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Week Ten
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Detailed drafts of poster and film magazine and finalize storyboard
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Week Eleven
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First video shoot, review footage and photo shoot
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Week Twelve
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Second video shoot, review footage and photo shoot
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Week Thirteen
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Third video shoot, review footage and photo shoot
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Week Fourteen
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Video editing and final draft of poster
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Week Fifteen
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Video editing and final draft of magazine
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Week Sixteen
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Refine video editing and final draft of magazine cover
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Week Seventeen
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Begin first draft of evaluation
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Week Eighteen
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Evaluation
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Week Nineteen
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Evaluation
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Week Twenty
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Complete final draft of evaluation
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Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Project Proposal
Project proposal
Title of Film: Scarlet’s Revenge
Who am I working with?
- Olivia
- Gifty
- Agne
- Holly
What is your brief?
Our brief is to make a teaser trailer for a horror film, which will have a running time of 30 seconds to 1 minute. We will produce a film magazine cover which will feature our film & also produce a poster to market our film, as well as a magazine cover and a logo to represent the company screening our film.
How are you splitting the roles?
- – Executive producer, sound/lighting & actress. Gifty
- – Editor, camera person, assistant director. Olivia
- – Producer, assitant director, photographer. Holly
- – art director. production assistant. Agne
Who are the audience?
Our audience for the teaser trailer is 18+ as we believe aiming at this group will allow us to create a trailer so that we can put the shock value back into a high-quality horror teaser trailer as well as create a horrific experience for the younger generation. Create a film they have never seen before.
What have you found out about our audience?
We are going to hand out questionnaires and the data should show that our audience will want an original and unique horror film that challenges the traditional conventions of the horror genre. We have challenged the typical conventions to a horror film. We have done this by creating a woman killer instead it always stereotypically being a male.
Research about existing products:
We have to watch many of the big horror films that have come out such as Saw, Scream, Halloween, Bram Stoker’s Dracula etc. & we will analyse the techniques the editors and directors have used to create a dramatic effect.
We are going to go further by looking into British horror films and how we can make ours innovative and diverse from other British horror films.
We have also evaluated horror teaser trailer through YouTube, to see if any inspiration would come to mind as to what to add in our trailer or to challenge against.
How will you make the film inventive?
Our group is aiming to go against the stereotypes of typical conventions of a horror film in every way we can. Such as location, music, the killer’s motive, gender of the killer etc. we are looking to get this idea as extreme as we possibly can. Instead of the killer being a male we have created a woman killer. Most horror films use typical scenes and settings, for example an empty house, whereas we are filming in less obvious locations.
Friday, 2 December 2011
A2 TRAILER ANALYSIS
A2 Trailer analysis
Using YouTube analyse a Horror film trailer
1. What is the purpose of a film trailer?
The purpose of a film trailer is to show the audience small clips of the film that’s being released. It’s to engage the audience into what’s going on so that they will want to see the film.
2. In what ways is the story established?
The film narrative is established in part by using a narrator to explain in small detail what’s going on in the film as well as using small talking clips. They shows certain clips from start to finish to show the story line in basic
3. What enigmas are raised for the narrative to deal with?
The problems that are raised in the film are the things that begin to change in the film.
4. In what ways are the characters established?
The characters are established through the opening scenes of introduction. The clips establish who and what the characters are, for example the little girl with the black hair, the clips are edited to show her appearing and disappearing, making it clear to the audience that she is not part of the family and that something is not normal with her.
Information on characters is introduced by revealing certain things within the clips. This helps the audience put together the story themselves by not actually telling them what’s going on or what’s happened. Information on the characters can be found on the internet, as the trailer reveals the film is based on a true story, so they can look into it.
5. What does the viewer learn from the voice-over?
The voice-over establishes what kind of things that goes on in the film causing the audience to learn the basic story line without knowing the insight to the film. The narrator helps put the pieces together.
6. How is dialogue used?
The dialogue reveals to the audience the problems that go on within the film and how they are created, basic words fit together.
Sometimes dialogue is juxtaposed against
7. How and when are action clips used?
Action clips are used when the trailer dies down and goes quiet, giving the perfect opportunity to create a dramatic entrance for the action clip, creating a shock and thrill towards the audience.
8. What do they signify?
They are significant for creating suspense to the audience at the end of a trailer. This is when the action clips mainly come into place
9. Describe the pace of editing and visual style. What mood does this evoke for the viewer?
The visual style is slow at first creating suspense to the audience. This creates an exciting mood for the audience as it encourages them to want to watch the film.
10. How are titles and graphics used?
the title is generally put at the beginning and the end of every trailer, this is so the audience don’t forget the name of the film.
11. In what ways is the genre signified to the audience?
The genre is signified to the audience by the use of imagery and the themes that are used, for example using dark backgrounds to highlight the title.
12. How are the stars established?
The stars are established by highlighting their names when they pop in the trailer. Making it clear what famous people, or people you recognize are in the film.
13. Describe the overall structure of the trailer. I.e. when particular information is introduced. Does this follow a conventional pattern?
The pace alters whenever something interesting comes into the scene to make sure the film isn’t portrayed as boring, if the trailer only shows boring bits at the beginning of the clip and good bits at the end, then the audience wont watch it, as it needs to be exciting throughout the whole film.
14. How does the trailer appeal to the viewer?
The trailer will only appeal to target audiences. For example people who enjoy horror. It does this by making it clear at the beginning of the trailer what genre the film is.
15. Summarize the forms and conventions of the trailer.
The trailer has typical conventions of a horror film. For example slow paced music at the beginning and fast and scary when something bad is going to happen. Also the fast movement of the slides, to show roughly that something intense is happening. Fast music is used at this point to create the tension/suspense.
Thursday, 17 November 2011
Friday, 21 October 2011
Friday, 14 October 2011
Worksheet Analysis of Film Poster
Film Poster
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Name & genre of film
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Scream/ Horror
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Key image (camera shot/angle – purpose); expressions, posture/body language. How do they reinforce the genre?
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The key image is of the main character in the beginning of the film. It’s a close up shot on the woman’s face. The expression of her face shows she’s in shock, almost as if she’s seen something that’s scared her.
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Lighting & how it influences the meaning of the text & genre.
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The connotation of her face colour, black and white, represents shock/horror, pal as white, and loss of colour in her face from shock.
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Costumes/dress codes; icons/props, make-up – how do the challenge or reinforce the generic conventions.
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The colours of the poster reinforce the genre affect. Black represents darkness; however white typically represents innocents and purity. The contrast between them leaves the audience deciding whether the films genre is combined.
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Background, colour
( connotations) & layout & how they influence meaning.
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On the front cover of scream there is no background only a facial close up shot, this is to leave the audience thinking why is she pulling that facial expression? What’s going on? It leaves no clues.
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Copy (text) – Size, font style, colour & content (title/tagline/credits/ratings etc)
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The title of the film is in a big front, presented in the colour white so that it’s bright and bold against the black background. It’s contrasting.
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Target audience
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The target audience would be teenagers of both sexes.
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Representation of Characters – Age, race gender, Culture, sexuality etc. Do they challenge or reinforce the genre conventions.
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The characters are a typical stereotype of young wild teenagers in college wanting to have fun.
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Institutional
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Product details (credits, cast, director/producer/studios/certification/web address etc).
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Enigma/Narrative image (How does the poster create a ‘story’ & entice its intended audience to go see the film?) What questions does the poster ‘ask’ of the audience?
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