Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Monday, 7 March 2011
Weather forecast for the week we are filming
Monday 1 November 2010 to Sunday 7 November 2010
Windy and surprisingly mild
Once the southwesterly winds crank up later on Monday, they're in for most of the week, reaching gale force at times in some exposed areas.
As a frontal zone waves northwards and southwards across the country, so the areas of wettest weather change, but western upslopes are likely to see the highest totals.
Very mild air to the south of the frontal zone has potential to produce daytime temperatures in the high teens and some exceptionally mild nights, while cooler air makes occasional inroads across the north.
That's more likely at the end of the week, as the weather patterns begin to move southwards.
Windy and surprisingly mild
Once the southwesterly winds crank up later on Monday, they're in for most of the week, reaching gale force at times in some exposed areas.
As a frontal zone waves northwards and southwards across the country, so the areas of wettest weather change, but western upslopes are likely to see the highest totals.
Very mild air to the south of the frontal zone has potential to produce daytime temperatures in the high teens and some exceptionally mild nights, while cooler air makes occasional inroads across the north.
That's more likely at the end of the week, as the weather patterns begin to move southwards.
The Lost Boys Trailer (1987)
1.At what point in the trailer are we told the name of the film? Why is this?
We are first given the name of the film towards the end (at 1:18 into the trailer) I believe that this is because the audience have been enticed to go and see the film by all the action happening throughout the trailer and will want to know the name therefore by giving the name at the very end they will not forget it.
2.Why are we told who is starring in the film? How is this information given to us?
We are not told who is starring in the film until the very end however this is an 80's film and from the trailer we can clearly see that it stars Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Haim, Corey Feldman and Jason Patric who were all well known actors at the time therefore the audience would not have needed to be told their names.
3.What type of action from the film do we see?
The beginning of the trailer shows an outdoor concert crowded with people however the cameras focus is mainly on Michael and Sam and for a brief moment on Star. We are then shown a couple in a car making out until the roof of their car is torn off by an unknown force. Sam is then shown in a comic book store speaking to two boys (the Frog brothers) who tell him that Santa Carla is crawling with vampires. We then return to the car where only the girl is left clinging to the remains of the car and screaming as a point of view shot zooms into her from above, giving the impression that something is flying down to her, she is then pulled into the sky by the unseen force. Michael is then shown along with David and the other vampires dangling from a train track as a train goes over it, David then lets go and falls. A shot of Nunuk snarling at Michael as Michael growls back at him. Throughout the rest of the trailer we see Michael and Sam dealing with the fact that Michael has been turned into a vampire. Towards the end of the trailer we start to see shots of the vampires being killed in gruesome ways for example being drowned in holy water.
4.What clues does the music give us as to what type of film the trailer is advertising?
Throughout the trailer the song 'People are strange' by Echo and the bunnymen is played. This represents the plot as the lyrics are 'people are strange, when you're a stranger' this in my belief is a good representation of the characters of Sam and Michael as they are strangers in this town and the people seem strange and strange things happen. It does not give a direct indication however that it is advertising a horror film, however the song does have quite an eerie mysterious sense to it.
5.What can you say about the voice of the person delivering the voice-over? Why do you think this voice was chosen? What effect does it have?
The person giving the voice-over has quite a raspy voice that almost sounds like he is growling, I think this was chosen as it creates a creepy atmosphere as it is quite like how people would expect a vampire to sound in the 80's before vampires became popular in the naughties and were seen as pleasant creatures who sparkle.
6.How does the speed of what we see compare to watching a clip from a film? Why is this? Does the speed alter through the trailer or stay the same?
The speed of this trailer is quite fast as they jump from scene to scene in an attempt to fit the film into one small trailer. The majority of the trailer is fast paced for the scary parts however the pace slows down when information is given, for example when Sam is speaking to the Frog brothers.
7.What information are we given in the very last frame of the trailer?
In the very last frame of the trailer we given the names of the production company etc.
'The Doctor' Script
The Doctor
1. EXT. DALEWOOD VILLAGE - MIDDAY
Establishing shots of Dalewood Village, a quiet picturesque suburb, where everyone knows each other. We see fields, post office, police station and children playing.
CUT TO:
2. EXT. DALEWOOD VILLAGE – MIDDAY
LS of DOCTOR CORTE’s house
3. EXT. DOCTOR CORTE’S HOUSE – MIDDAY
CASSIE walks along the path towards the house.
4. EXT. DOCTOR CORTE’S HOUSE – MIDDAY
MS: Door of the house slowly opens to reveal DOCTOR CORTE.
LS: CASSIE walking into the building
MS: The door slams behind CASSIE
5. INT. DOCTOR CORTE’S OFFICE - MIDDAY
LS of DOCTOR CORTE’S OFFICE
DOCTOR CORTE
Take a seat, now, Cassie; tell me what has been bothering you.
UP DOCTOR CORTE’S hand clenches on the sofa
6. INT. DOCTOR CORTE’S HOUSE – NIGHT
LS: CASSIE walking down a dark corridor
MS: CASSIE entering DOCTOR’S ‘SURGERY’
7. CU: of CASSIE asleep.
CUT TO: flashback with blackouts etc.
FAST TRACK: Two girls wearing hospital gowns with blood on.
CU: of CASSIE waking up.
8. INT. DOCTOR CORTE’S HOUSE- MORNING
MS: CASSIE getting up out of bed.
LS: CASSIE walking down the corridor entering the DOCTOR’S OFFICE
CU: CASSIE’S hand knocking on the door.
9. INT. DOCTOR’S OFFICE - MORNING
ES: DOCTOR’S OFFICE (PAN)
MS: CASSIE noticing the board full of photos that CASSIE has seen in her dreams.
CU: CASSIE looking at the photos and reacts…
9. INT. DOCTOR CORTE’S OFFICE – NIGHT
LS: CASSIE stood in a doorway
POV: CASSIE looking at EMILY and KATIE (the girls from her dreams) tied to a bed
CU: EMILY and KATIE’S eyes open
LAS: DOCTOR CORTE at the top of the stairs
10. EXT. DALEWOOD VILLAGE WOODS- NIGHT
ES: CASSIE, EMILY and KATIE entering the woods.
BLACK OUT
ES: DOCTOR CORTE entering the woods.
QUICK CUT TO:
LS/POV: GIRLS running. (POV shot)
MS: GIRL stood and DOCTOR stops.
MS: DOCTOR turns around to find no one there.
CU: EMILY licking a knife
CU: KATIE screams at the camera
CU: CASSIE to show that she has become like the other girls
CU: DOCTOR CORTE looking scared
Character profiles
The Character’s Profile:
Katie Cooke: Ex patient of Dr. Corté’s
She was a popular young teenager that had recently suffered from abuse from her parents. She seeked advice and guidance from the friendly family Doctor. Little did she know that the “friendly” doctor would soon turn on her.
Emily Stonem: A smart teenager who recently suffered serious depression from drug abuse, she has gone crazy as an affect. She does not know what to do or who to see for help. She wanders into the local village’s doctor. She soon realised that the “friendly” doctor was not so friendly.
Cassie Fitch: After a relationship breakdown and bullying in school, Cassie decides that she wishes to end her life. After being stopped by her parents (against her will,) they sign her up to see the family Doctor. She soon realises that the Doctor has worse plans for her.
Doctor Corté: He is a “friendly family” doctor from the local village, he is of Spanish decent (hence the name.) He has photos of his ex-patients in his office which he “treated.” He has grown up a sick and twisted man.
Katie Cooke: Ex patient of Dr. Corté’s
She was a popular young teenager that had recently suffered from abuse from her parents. She seeked advice and guidance from the friendly family Doctor. Little did she know that the “friendly” doctor would soon turn on her.
Emily Stonem: A smart teenager who recently suffered serious depression from drug abuse, she has gone crazy as an affect. She does not know what to do or who to see for help. She wanders into the local village’s doctor. She soon realised that the “friendly” doctor was not so friendly.
Cassie Fitch: After a relationship breakdown and bullying in school, Cassie decides that she wishes to end her life. After being stopped by her parents (against her will,) they sign her up to see the family Doctor. She soon realises that the Doctor has worse plans for her.
Doctor Corté: He is a “friendly family” doctor from the local village, he is of Spanish decent (hence the name.) He has photos of his ex-patients in his office which he “treated.” He has grown up a sick and twisted man.
Proposal
Prepared by Samantha Swinney, Jamie Perry, Rachel Kitchin and Khristie Lawton.
Khristie Lawton- Katie
Rachel Kitchin- Emily
Samantha Swinney- Cassie
Jamie Perry- Dr. Corte
We are producing a new horror/thriller film which will have the target audience of teenagers and adults. I believe that this target audience will be most suited to our genre of film as some modern psychological horrors (such as the SAW) are already popular within our target audience. I think our film should be classed as an 15 to an 18 due to the violent gore that will be featured. Also, the jumpy scenes may scare a younger audience. I believe that this target audience will also be the ones most likely to come and watch the film as my research shows me that 15-24 year olds represent the largest percentage of cinema goers (around 40%)
We will be producing a new horror film the plot will be;
“Somewhere in a small, quiet village in the north of England a sick and twisted psychologist tampered with the minds of innocent young vulnerable girls in need of help. Three college students Katie, Cassie and Emily all have their own personal problems and in desperate need of someone’s help, however they turn to the wrong man to tend to their needs.
Emily and Katie are ex patients of the disturbed Dr Corte however the public are lead to believe they were too troubled to save, little did they know Dr Corte liked to violently torture the messed up girls and use them as his little puppets. Cassie, Dr Corte new patient has continuous night terrors concerning two girls. When Cassie first meets the Dr she notices numerous photos on his wall in his office of young girls who resemble the girls from her nightmares, when questioned who they were the Dr responds his ex patients, sparking concern for Cassie as to why she’s seeing them on a night time, suicidal, Cassie becomes extremely confused and delirious. Has the doctor got into her mind as well? Is she the doctor’s new little doll to play with?
Cassie, sleepwalking one night finds herself walking down the corridor of the Dr’s sick clinic and winds up finding the two ex patients of the Dr’s tied up in bed. Releasing the girls which don’t seem to be human more ghostly they try to escape the sickening torture of the repulsive Dr and end up in a near by forest. Now it’s three against one, in a wood alone, who’s going to make it?”
Our package will include:
Storyboard
Teaser Trailer
Theatrical Trailer
Film
Movie posters
Movie billboards
Movie bus billboards
Magazine Front Cover (EMPIRE)
Our film package shall resemble any normal high budget film, however, our budget will be much smaller and hopefully create a larger profit for the distribution company. Our budget shall be around £35,000. This is a very small amount for a stereotypical horror film.
In terms of the production of our film, we want the film to resemble the new popular kind of horror films. The “shaky” camera feel from films such as “The Blair Witch Project” and “Cloverfield.”
The locations of our film shall take place in a ward (in a hospital) to capture the psychological feel of the film, as hospitals are socially linked to horror films. Also, we shall use a location in the woods. This is also the capture the stereotypical horror convention. We shall film at dusk, this is also the capture the horror convention. Our posters and billboard pictures shall take place in this location too.
Khristie Lawton- Katie
Rachel Kitchin- Emily
Samantha Swinney- Cassie
Jamie Perry- Dr. Corte
We are producing a new horror/thriller film which will have the target audience of teenagers and adults. I believe that this target audience will be most suited to our genre of film as some modern psychological horrors (such as the SAW) are already popular within our target audience. I think our film should be classed as an 15 to an 18 due to the violent gore that will be featured. Also, the jumpy scenes may scare a younger audience. I believe that this target audience will also be the ones most likely to come and watch the film as my research shows me that 15-24 year olds represent the largest percentage of cinema goers (around 40%)
We will be producing a new horror film the plot will be;
“Somewhere in a small, quiet village in the north of England a sick and twisted psychologist tampered with the minds of innocent young vulnerable girls in need of help. Three college students Katie, Cassie and Emily all have their own personal problems and in desperate need of someone’s help, however they turn to the wrong man to tend to their needs.
Emily and Katie are ex patients of the disturbed Dr Corte however the public are lead to believe they were too troubled to save, little did they know Dr Corte liked to violently torture the messed up girls and use them as his little puppets. Cassie, Dr Corte new patient has continuous night terrors concerning two girls. When Cassie first meets the Dr she notices numerous photos on his wall in his office of young girls who resemble the girls from her nightmares, when questioned who they were the Dr responds his ex patients, sparking concern for Cassie as to why she’s seeing them on a night time, suicidal, Cassie becomes extremely confused and delirious. Has the doctor got into her mind as well? Is she the doctor’s new little doll to play with?
Cassie, sleepwalking one night finds herself walking down the corridor of the Dr’s sick clinic and winds up finding the two ex patients of the Dr’s tied up in bed. Releasing the girls which don’t seem to be human more ghostly they try to escape the sickening torture of the repulsive Dr and end up in a near by forest. Now it’s three against one, in a wood alone, who’s going to make it?”
Our package will include:
Storyboard
Teaser Trailer
Theatrical Trailer
Film
Movie posters
Movie billboards
Movie bus billboards
Magazine Front Cover (EMPIRE)
Our film package shall resemble any normal high budget film, however, our budget will be much smaller and hopefully create a larger profit for the distribution company. Our budget shall be around £35,000. This is a very small amount for a stereotypical horror film.
In terms of the production of our film, we want the film to resemble the new popular kind of horror films. The “shaky” camera feel from films such as “The Blair Witch Project” and “Cloverfield.”
The locations of our film shall take place in a ward (in a hospital) to capture the psychological feel of the film, as hospitals are socially linked to horror films. Also, we shall use a location in the woods. This is also the capture the stereotypical horror convention. We shall film at dusk, this is also the capture the horror convention. Our posters and billboard pictures shall take place in this location too.
Research into our target audience
Before creating our trailer, we first needed to research what people think makes a good horror trailer. I order to do this we created a questionnaire and posted it online.
QUESTIONNAIRE
i. What is your age?
ii. What is your gender?
iii. What is your opinion on horror films?
iv. Do film trailers for horror films influence your decision on whether or not you want to watch a film?
v. What is your favorite type of horror film e.g. gore/suspense?
vi. What do you think makes a good horror trailer? What do you expect to see?
vii. What makes a horror film memorable? What do you like most about them?
viii. What horror films have you liked most and why?
ix. What do you enjoy/like most about horror films?
ANSWERS
18
Male
Not my favorite genre, but I watch them. I mainly like crappy horror movies from the 70s-80s.
Yes.
Either classic horror or eighties slasher.
I like to see an interesting concept or a dynamic villain.
Usually the villain or the way in which the film is shot.
Nightmare on Elm Street series because they are ultra-cheesy. Also The Shining because it is just a beautiful picture. I also like the classic Universal monster movies because they are classics!
The same things I like about any movies.
Over 25
Female.
They're ok, very few that's not clichéd with bad acting
Sure it does, a trailer is usually an ok indication of the movie. Besides, I love trailers of all kinds and think the ability to make a good trailer is as much an art as making a movie
Supernatural occurrences i.e. such as Event Horizon [but not Paranormal, that sucked]
Hmm, difficult
An intense and frightening villain
Event Horizon, The Shining, Alien [as mentioned, good villains, some supernatural elements, chilling] - haven't been truly frightened of a movie since I was a kid and watched Halloween, but I like it when its freaky and chilling
The thrills and the chills! Lol
I'm 21 years old
Male
I love horror movies especially the ones that are actually scary/creepy
Yes because then I can see what the movie is about and if I will actually like it, it helps to know the director/writer too
I like all types of horror movies but I especially like it to be suspenseful/scary but with blood/gore/violent/nudity always make it better. I'm a big horror movie buff.
A good horror trailer is something that will scare you watching it or get you intrigued by it. I expect to see what the movie is about and something that will make it scary.
What makes a horror movie memorable is the fact it will scare the hell out of me and had a good story and great characters. I like the adrenaline rush I get by watching them and I like getting scared and I like to think about what I would do if I was in their situation. Horror movies are great and it helps when you had a long day and it's great entertainment.
The Strangers, Vacancy, Silent Hill, Jeepers Creepers, Halloween, Final Destination 1 & 3, Black Christmas, Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, 30 Days of Night, Friday The 13th, Evil Dead, The Crazies. I like all of these movies because I love horror movies but I really liked The Strangers because it was actually scary/creepy and it was based off 3 actual events that happened. It was something different in the horror genre and it was scary because it could actually happen and the killers were doing what they did for no reason other then they were home. Also Liv Tyler did an amazing job in the movie.
I enjoy getting scared and like relating to the characters to see what I would do but I love the thrill I get from watching horror movies. It's like riding on a roller coaster and I just love the adrenaline rush I get and I do love the rated R horror movies with all the blood/gore/sex/nudity/persuasive language/violence/disturbing content and that's what makes a horror movie. I hate PG-13 horror movies because most of the time they suck and are not well written and appeal more to 12 or 13 years olds who don't know what real horror is. Also I'm really looking forward to My Soul to Take which hits theaters Oct. 8th, it looks scary and I will definitely be seeing it. Happy Halloween!
17
Female
I love them.
Yes, I like trailers that scare me.
Physiological horrors and true story.
I like gory trailers and trailers which leave you in suspense.
A scary villain/killer
I like a lot, Nightmare on Elm Street, Wolf Creek, Saw series.
A scary killer
17
Female
Some are good but others do not have a good enough plot line to be interesting
Yes because I decide if it looks interesting and not too scary
Suspense
Expect to see the main characters some plot but not a lot then dark and scary scene with some action shots
If the storyline is good and if the actors play the part well, if there are jumpy scenes that aren’t predictable.
Silent hill, Hannibal they both have good mysterious plot and in Hannibal has a memorable actor
The jumpy bits
17
Male
I prefer comedy, I’m not really interested.
Yes
Suspense
Teasers, Scary moments
A cliff-hanger ending. Famous actors or a famous director.
The Dark Knight, because it has a good storyline and lots of action.
Good storyline and action.
16
Female
I enjoy them
Yes however I think they are inappropriate to come on through the night as they scare me.
Suspense!
Not too much, dark and scary and at the end see a masked man hold a knife to somebody.
The suspense
THE hills run red as it isn’t predictable.
Suspense
13
Female
They’re ok if they are filmed right
I only like or watch the ones which stand out from the rest EG: The Hole and Buried alive< the new films that are out now
All horror related really
Something that stands out and looks good, making me want to watch it
What makes a horror film memorable? What do you like most about them? The best scenes and they stay in your head. If I like the film then I watch it again.
I don’t really sit down and watch them but if I’ve seen jaws-if that counts
I like a horror film if they look good when I see it for the first time
13
Female
I don’t really watch them as I’m quite a wimp at things like that
Not really as I don’t want to watch them in the first place
None really
Probably like the best snippets from the film and something that shows you what it’s really about
I don’t like them at all to be honest
None as I have never seen one … Well I’ve watched jaws if that counts haha!
Nothing really but if I did then probably the suspense
17
Female
Depends which horror film it is as long as it isn’t gory I’ll watch it
Not particularly as most horror trailers are the same aesthetically.
Suspense
Horror trailers should give a basic gist of the main storyline, leaving the viewer on a cliff-hanger rather than giving too much away
Storyline and effects make a horror film most memorable.
Dead Silence was good because it had a good storyline without been too graphic.
A storyline that makes you think
16
Female
They’re scary, so I don’t like them.
Yes
None
Action, cliffhanger
A good storyline
Last house on the left, because it’s not very scary and it’s the only one I’ve seen.
Nothing.
I’m 13
I’m female
Horror films are alright, but I don’t watch many of them
Not really, because I’d go on whether other people said they were good or not
A horror film would have to include suspension
A good horror trailer would have to include mysterious characters to include a tension in the story
The film would have to scare you to make you remember the film
I don’t really watch any films
13
Female
They are my favourite genre of films
Yes I like horror films that have a bit of mystery and suspense in the for example ‘when a stranger calls’ If they are just people shooting each other I wouldn’t watch it.
Suspense
Suspense, ghosts, mystery
If it really scares me
When a stranger calls, thirteen ghosts, because they really scared me
The fear
13
female
I like horror films but I would watch comedy’s more
Yes cause it will show you how scary it is
Suspense
The way it shows suspense
If they’re really scary
Orphan because it is so scary
The thrill of being scared
17.
Male.
I don’t mind them, they’re ok.
Yes.
Gore.
Being able to see the characters and being able to see the good scenes but always leave enough mystery to the film.
The film being good. The fact that they’re quite scary.
Saw because it makes me ask questions on why he does what he does in the film.
I enjoy the suspense.
From the responses given to our questionnaire we have found that:
QUESTIONNAIRE
i. What is your age?
ii. What is your gender?
iii. What is your opinion on horror films?
iv. Do film trailers for horror films influence your decision on whether or not you want to watch a film?
v. What is your favorite type of horror film e.g. gore/suspense?
vi. What do you think makes a good horror trailer? What do you expect to see?
vii. What makes a horror film memorable? What do you like most about them?
viii. What horror films have you liked most and why?
ix. What do you enjoy/like most about horror films?
ANSWERS
18
Male
Not my favorite genre, but I watch them. I mainly like crappy horror movies from the 70s-80s.
Yes.
Either classic horror or eighties slasher.
I like to see an interesting concept or a dynamic villain.
Usually the villain or the way in which the film is shot.
Nightmare on Elm Street series because they are ultra-cheesy. Also The Shining because it is just a beautiful picture. I also like the classic Universal monster movies because they are classics!
The same things I like about any movies.
Over 25
Female.
They're ok, very few that's not clichéd with bad acting
Sure it does, a trailer is usually an ok indication of the movie. Besides, I love trailers of all kinds and think the ability to make a good trailer is as much an art as making a movie
Supernatural occurrences i.e. such as Event Horizon [but not Paranormal, that sucked]
Hmm, difficult
An intense and frightening villain
Event Horizon, The Shining, Alien [as mentioned, good villains, some supernatural elements, chilling] - haven't been truly frightened of a movie since I was a kid and watched Halloween, but I like it when its freaky and chilling
The thrills and the chills! Lol
I'm 21 years old
Male
I love horror movies especially the ones that are actually scary/creepy
Yes because then I can see what the movie is about and if I will actually like it, it helps to know the director/writer too
I like all types of horror movies but I especially like it to be suspenseful/scary but with blood/gore/violent/nudity always make it better. I'm a big horror movie buff.
A good horror trailer is something that will scare you watching it or get you intrigued by it. I expect to see what the movie is about and something that will make it scary.
What makes a horror movie memorable is the fact it will scare the hell out of me and had a good story and great characters. I like the adrenaline rush I get by watching them and I like getting scared and I like to think about what I would do if I was in their situation. Horror movies are great and it helps when you had a long day and it's great entertainment.
The Strangers, Vacancy, Silent Hill, Jeepers Creepers, Halloween, Final Destination 1 & 3, Black Christmas, Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, 30 Days of Night, Friday The 13th, Evil Dead, The Crazies. I like all of these movies because I love horror movies but I really liked The Strangers because it was actually scary/creepy and it was based off 3 actual events that happened. It was something different in the horror genre and it was scary because it could actually happen and the killers were doing what they did for no reason other then they were home. Also Liv Tyler did an amazing job in the movie.
I enjoy getting scared and like relating to the characters to see what I would do but I love the thrill I get from watching horror movies. It's like riding on a roller coaster and I just love the adrenaline rush I get and I do love the rated R horror movies with all the blood/gore/sex/nudity/persuasive language/violence/disturbing content and that's what makes a horror movie. I hate PG-13 horror movies because most of the time they suck and are not well written and appeal more to 12 or 13 years olds who don't know what real horror is. Also I'm really looking forward to My Soul to Take which hits theaters Oct. 8th, it looks scary and I will definitely be seeing it. Happy Halloween!
17
Female
I love them.
Yes, I like trailers that scare me.
Physiological horrors and true story.
I like gory trailers and trailers which leave you in suspense.
A scary villain/killer
I like a lot, Nightmare on Elm Street, Wolf Creek, Saw series.
A scary killer
17
Female
Some are good but others do not have a good enough plot line to be interesting
Yes because I decide if it looks interesting and not too scary
Suspense
Expect to see the main characters some plot but not a lot then dark and scary scene with some action shots
If the storyline is good and if the actors play the part well, if there are jumpy scenes that aren’t predictable.
Silent hill, Hannibal they both have good mysterious plot and in Hannibal has a memorable actor
The jumpy bits
17
Male
I prefer comedy, I’m not really interested.
Yes
Suspense
Teasers, Scary moments
A cliff-hanger ending. Famous actors or a famous director.
The Dark Knight, because it has a good storyline and lots of action.
Good storyline and action.
16
Female
I enjoy them
Yes however I think they are inappropriate to come on through the night as they scare me.
Suspense!
Not too much, dark and scary and at the end see a masked man hold a knife to somebody.
The suspense
THE hills run red as it isn’t predictable.
Suspense
13
Female
They’re ok if they are filmed right
I only like or watch the ones which stand out from the rest EG: The Hole and Buried alive< the new films that are out now
All horror related really
Something that stands out and looks good, making me want to watch it
What makes a horror film memorable? What do you like most about them? The best scenes and they stay in your head. If I like the film then I watch it again.
I don’t really sit down and watch them but if I’ve seen jaws-if that counts
I like a horror film if they look good when I see it for the first time
13
Female
I don’t really watch them as I’m quite a wimp at things like that
Not really as I don’t want to watch them in the first place
None really
Probably like the best snippets from the film and something that shows you what it’s really about
I don’t like them at all to be honest
None as I have never seen one … Well I’ve watched jaws if that counts haha!
Nothing really but if I did then probably the suspense
17
Female
Depends which horror film it is as long as it isn’t gory I’ll watch it
Not particularly as most horror trailers are the same aesthetically.
Suspense
Horror trailers should give a basic gist of the main storyline, leaving the viewer on a cliff-hanger rather than giving too much away
Storyline and effects make a horror film most memorable.
Dead Silence was good because it had a good storyline without been too graphic.
A storyline that makes you think
16
Female
They’re scary, so I don’t like them.
Yes
None
Action, cliffhanger
A good storyline
Last house on the left, because it’s not very scary and it’s the only one I’ve seen.
Nothing.
I’m 13
I’m female
Horror films are alright, but I don’t watch many of them
Not really, because I’d go on whether other people said they were good or not
A horror film would have to include suspension
A good horror trailer would have to include mysterious characters to include a tension in the story
The film would have to scare you to make you remember the film
I don’t really watch any films
13
Female
They are my favourite genre of films
Yes I like horror films that have a bit of mystery and suspense in the for example ‘when a stranger calls’ If they are just people shooting each other I wouldn’t watch it.
Suspense
Suspense, ghosts, mystery
If it really scares me
When a stranger calls, thirteen ghosts, because they really scared me
The fear
13
female
I like horror films but I would watch comedy’s more
Yes cause it will show you how scary it is
Suspense
The way it shows suspense
If they’re really scary
Orphan because it is so scary
The thrill of being scared
17.
Male.
I don’t mind them, they’re ok.
Yes.
Gore.
Being able to see the characters and being able to see the good scenes but always leave enough mystery to the film.
The film being good. The fact that they’re quite scary.
Saw because it makes me ask questions on why he does what he does in the film.
I enjoy the suspense.
From the responses given to our questionnaire we have found that:
43.75% want to see suspense in a horror film/trailer
and
and
25% want to see a dynamic and scary villain
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Evaluation (text version)
Q1: In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our trailer uses conventions of real media products in a number of ways. Our finished teaser trailer starts with a black and white establishing shot of Dalewood village and the house where the majority of the film takes place, this establishing shot gives a sense of normality however this is juxtaposed by the shot being in
black and white as this gives the opening shot a more eerie atmosphere which is emphasised by the high pitched music, this is a convention of real media products as we have started our trailer with slow eerie music which is commonly done with horror trailers. After the establishing shot there is a mid-shot of a police officer,
there is then a close up of the officer and he then begins to read a script which explains that three girls have gone missing, thus introducing the story to the audience. In our first draft of our trailer we did not include this scene however audience feedback from our first draft revealed that the audience were not clear on
the storyline, therefore we introduced the character of the policeman to make the story more obvious, this is a common convention of horror trailers as the story is usually revealed early on in the trailer. After this there is a long shot of a girl entering a house, while this is happening the police officer gives details on the latest victim demonstrating to the audience that the girl entering the house is the latest victim. The camera then pans upwards once she has entered the house.
The screen then turns to black and there is a loud high pitched noise and the names of the directors flash onto the screen and shake, this is something that is done in real media products for example of this is 'Scream 4' when Wes Craven's name appears. The Scream 4 trailer is similar to our trailer in a number of ways as it
starts by explaining the story and then has a number of short scary frames from the movie, intended to scare the audience and make them want to see the movie. The Scream 4 trailer also ends with a scream which is something my partner and I decided to do as the product is a teaser trailer so by doing this the trailer ends in
suspense which is common in most horror trailers.
Another way in which our media product follows the forms and conventions of real media products is through the use of a tag-line as a tag-line is seen in every movie regardless of the genre. Our tag-line "Sometimes what you dream, becomes reality" relates directly to the plot which is something a lot of tag-lines tend to do, for example, A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) "If Nancy doesn't wake up screaming, she won't wake up at all..."
Although our trailer does follow most conventions, during planning we decided we wanted to challenge one of the horror movie conventions. In the past in horror films woman have mainly been portrayed as hypersexual damsels in distress who are usually murdered within the first five minutes of a film, as our trailer has a predominately female cast we wanted to challenge this convention. During our research we found that more modern movies have moved on from this convention and women are sometimes now represented as the main source of evil in a film, however the evil mainly comes from symbolic representations of the female genitalia we also found that vaginal representations in horror usually give birth to some horrible monster for example in the Fly 2 (1989) Veronica gives birth to Brundle's mutant son before dying. A more modern example of this is the horror/comedy movie, ‘Teeth’ which actually showed the main character, Dawn O’Keefe, with teeth in her vagina. After we had researched this we decided that we wanted to challenge the older convention and use the more modern idea of women being sources of evil, however we did not want to make it sexual we just wanted the female characters to be disturbed young women. We therefore decided that although Dr Corte would be the main source of evil, the girls would eventually become a source of evil.
Q2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
As we had decided to do a horror film our ancillary texts needed to convey this effectively to the audience. When starting my magazine I decided to first look at the popular film magazine 'EMPIRE', the first thing I noticed about this magazine was the simplicity of the front cover, it contained a mast head, an image and a few plugs and I decided that this was how I wanted my magazine to look. Another thing I noticed about EMPIRE was that the mast head was always in red, this appealed to me as the colour is striking and stands out and would also work well with a horror theme as it has connotations of blood, fear, passion and violence, things all commonly found in a horror film. Therefore the colour scheme I decided to use was red and black as these colours are commonly associated with horror films.
For my magazine I chose an image of Rachel holding a knife, although the image was already quite creepy I decided that I should edit it to give it more of an impact. I began by lightening her skin to give her a more pale and ghostly look as pale skin is associated with vampires and ghosts therefore it works well for a horror film, I then made the make-up around the eyes darker, changed the coulour of her eyes to red and made the whites of the eyes brighter in order to make the eyes more striking. Finally I made the blood on the knife darker to make the knife stand out more and to ensure that the image looked scary.
After seeing the landscape poster for 'Let the right one in' I decided that I wanted to mimic this look as the main focus was on the image and I found this effective as the image alone was creepy enough to make me want to see the film. For my poster I took an image of Rachel looking over her shoulder and edited in the same way as I did for my magazine, making her skin pale, the make-up around the eyes darker, changing the coulour of her eyes to red and making the whites of the eyes brighter and I then put it onto a black background. To keep the poster simple I then put the names of the cast along the top and the name of the film in the middle, on the 'Let the right one in poster' however they had a review from a paper on the poster, after trying this out on my poster however I decided that It would take the focus away
from my image and they may lose interest.
Overall I believe that the combination of our main product and the ancillary texts are very effective. I believe this as I feel that they work well together in encouraging the target audience to go and see the film, this is because they both contain conventions that are successful within horror films and which people enjoy.
All of our magazines and posters have a similar theme which is the hospital gowns the ancillary texts can all be associated with our trailer by the audience thus
making them an affective combination.
Q3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?
One of the first problems we had after receiving audience feeback was the name of our film, from the first stages of planning we had decided to name our film 'The Doctor' however after watching this our audience were not clear on who the character of 'The Doctor' was and why this was the name of the film, therefore we had to go back and re-think the name of our film. As our trailer has more footage of the three girls we came up with film names that could relate to them such as 'The Lost Souls', 'The Damned' and 'The Damned Souls', eventually we decided on 'The Damned' as it is clear from the trailer that the film has three girls who have been 'damned'.
Another problem we encountered was that the audience were not clear on the story, in order to fin this Jamie and I decided we would add a new scene, we decided that an effective way to help convey the story would be to have a police officer giving information on three girls going missing, as we have a police station on site this was easily assessable so was successful. We also added a voiceover of a news report revealing that all three girls had been receiving help from Dr Corte. Once we had added these things we started to receive more positive feedback as the audience were now more aware of what the plot of the film is.
Throughout the editing process a lot of people commented on he 'annoying' laugh and scream in our trailer, once we showed our trailer to an audience they confirmed that this did not work, therefore we decided to go back and try and improve these things. We started by replacing the scream with one available on Grageband, the software on the Apple Macs that we used to edit the sound on our trailer. We then added an echo to the laugh to make it less annoying and more creepy.
After showing our final trailer to a year 12 media class we were disappointed by the audience feedback, the audience we not enthusiastic at all and had to be pushed to answer questions. When asked if the trailer would make them want to see the film only one person responded, the boy who responded said that he would not want to see the film as was not interested in horror films, however as this was not to do with the quality of the trailer we were disappointed with the response.
From my audience feedback I have learned that in order to make a successful trailer it is not just film footage that entice the audience, it is important to make your story clear to the audience, otherwise they are left confused rather than intrigued. It is also important for the name to be relevant and for the sound to work with
the trailer.
When I first showed my magazine to my audience I was told that it did not work as the mast head was too small and there was too much on, I therefore made my mast head larger and increased the size of my image to fit with this and I then removed some of the plugs to make the magazine more simple. Once I had done this the audience said that my magazine worked well as the colour scheme and the image kept in line with the conventions of horror films and the simplicity of the magazine was similar to that of EMPIRE. The first draft of my poster worked well however I moved the names of the cast members to the top of the page as my audience believed that this looked better. By gaining audience feedback I was able to learn what people really thought of my media texts and what needed to be changed in order to make them
successful.
Q4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
In order to present our work this year we used the website Blogger which we had not done before. By using this site teachers were able to supervise our work on a regular basis and give feedback easily. This also aided in making things easier as we were able to work from home making it less time consuming than written work.
After deciding that our trailer would be of the horror genre we decided that in able to gain knowledge about what people expect to see form horror films we posted a questionnaire on 'Yahoo Answers' and on social networking sites such as 'Facebook', this was effective as social networking sites have branched out so far, for example Facebook has over 500 million users thus making this an effective way to gain knowledge. By doing this we learned things such as our target audience like to see a dynamic villain in a horror film.
During the research stage we used the internet to evaluate trailers, magazines and posters. To evaluate trailers we used the site TrailerAddict as this made it possible to embed the trailer onto our blogs in order to evaluate it, this made things easier as Youtube was blocked in our school. The internet also made it easy to evaluate magazine covers and posters as rather than going out and buying magazines and finding posters Google has them all available at the click of a button and can be copied and pasted onto Blogger.
When editing the main media technologies I used were Adobe Photoshop, Serif Page Plus Final Cut Pro, Youtube, Motion, Garageband and Blogger as all of these except Youtube were available at school. These enabled me to edit both my trailer and my ancillary texts I was then able to make them available to other people by posting them on Blogger Youtube. Another form of technology I used was the photo editing website Piknic which along with Adobe Photoshop allowed me to create the desired effect of my images. By using Youtube to post the drafts of our trailer we were able to gain sufficient feedback as we had over 130 views.
To import our footage onto the macs we used iMovie, wee then proceeded to use Final Cut Pro on the Macs we have in school in order to edit our footage. This software allowed us to move our clips around when we wanted to in order to create an effective trailer with a clear storyline. Using this software we were also able to make our footage shorter if we needed to for example throughout the trailer we have flashes of Rachel that have been made shorter. We were also able to edit the footage so that it faded into the next stage to ensure that it looked clean cut. We also used the software Motion to the manipulate the text we used in our trailer, for example when the name of the film comes up on the screen, by using Motion we were able to use the effect 'Quaser In' and two behaviors "Earthquake' and 'Bad Film' these made the text look more professional. We also used Garageband in order to edit the sound on our trailer, we were able to add music to the trailer, replace the screams and add an echo to the laugh, that everyone found annoying, in order to make it more eerie.
For my evaluation I used Blogger, Windows Movie Maker and Acer Sound Recorder. By using Acer Sound Recorder I was able to recorde my entire evaluation then import it into Windows Movie Maker in order to use visual aids with my evaluation.
Our trailer uses conventions of real media products in a number of ways. Our finished teaser trailer starts with a black and white establishing shot of Dalewood village and the house where the majority of the film takes place, this establishing shot gives a sense of normality however this is juxtaposed by the shot being in
black and white as this gives the opening shot a more eerie atmosphere which is emphasised by the high pitched music, this is a convention of real media products as we have started our trailer with slow eerie music which is commonly done with horror trailers. After the establishing shot there is a mid-shot of a police officer,
there is then a close up of the officer and he then begins to read a script which explains that three girls have gone missing, thus introducing the story to the audience. In our first draft of our trailer we did not include this scene however audience feedback from our first draft revealed that the audience were not clear on
the storyline, therefore we introduced the character of the policeman to make the story more obvious, this is a common convention of horror trailers as the story is usually revealed early on in the trailer. After this there is a long shot of a girl entering a house, while this is happening the police officer gives details on the latest victim demonstrating to the audience that the girl entering the house is the latest victim. The camera then pans upwards once she has entered the house.
The screen then turns to black and there is a loud high pitched noise and the names of the directors flash onto the screen and shake, this is something that is done in real media products for example of this is 'Scream 4' when Wes Craven's name appears. The Scream 4 trailer is similar to our trailer in a number of ways as it
starts by explaining the story and then has a number of short scary frames from the movie, intended to scare the audience and make them want to see the movie. The Scream 4 trailer also ends with a scream which is something my partner and I decided to do as the product is a teaser trailer so by doing this the trailer ends in
suspense which is common in most horror trailers.
Another way in which our media product follows the forms and conventions of real media products is through the use of a tag-line as a tag-line is seen in every movie regardless of the genre. Our tag-line "Sometimes what you dream, becomes reality" relates directly to the plot which is something a lot of tag-lines tend to do, for example, A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) "If Nancy doesn't wake up screaming, she won't wake up at all..."
Although our trailer does follow most conventions, during planning we decided we wanted to challenge one of the horror movie conventions. In the past in horror films woman have mainly been portrayed as hypersexual damsels in distress who are usually murdered within the first five minutes of a film, as our trailer has a predominately female cast we wanted to challenge this convention. During our research we found that more modern movies have moved on from this convention and women are sometimes now represented as the main source of evil in a film, however the evil mainly comes from symbolic representations of the female genitalia we also found that vaginal representations in horror usually give birth to some horrible monster for example in the Fly 2 (1989) Veronica gives birth to Brundle's mutant son before dying. A more modern example of this is the horror/comedy movie, ‘Teeth’ which actually showed the main character, Dawn O’Keefe, with teeth in her vagina. After we had researched this we decided that we wanted to challenge the older convention and use the more modern idea of women being sources of evil, however we did not want to make it sexual we just wanted the female characters to be disturbed young women. We therefore decided that although Dr Corte would be the main source of evil, the girls would eventually become a source of evil.
Q2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
As we had decided to do a horror film our ancillary texts needed to convey this effectively to the audience. When starting my magazine I decided to first look at the popular film magazine 'EMPIRE', the first thing I noticed about this magazine was the simplicity of the front cover, it contained a mast head, an image and a few plugs and I decided that this was how I wanted my magazine to look. Another thing I noticed about EMPIRE was that the mast head was always in red, this appealed to me as the colour is striking and stands out and would also work well with a horror theme as it has connotations of blood, fear, passion and violence, things all commonly found in a horror film. Therefore the colour scheme I decided to use was red and black as these colours are commonly associated with horror films.
For my magazine I chose an image of Rachel holding a knife, although the image was already quite creepy I decided that I should edit it to give it more of an impact. I began by lightening her skin to give her a more pale and ghostly look as pale skin is associated with vampires and ghosts therefore it works well for a horror film, I then made the make-up around the eyes darker, changed the coulour of her eyes to red and made the whites of the eyes brighter in order to make the eyes more striking. Finally I made the blood on the knife darker to make the knife stand out more and to ensure that the image looked scary.
After seeing the landscape poster for 'Let the right one in' I decided that I wanted to mimic this look as the main focus was on the image and I found this effective as the image alone was creepy enough to make me want to see the film. For my poster I took an image of Rachel looking over her shoulder and edited in the same way as I did for my magazine, making her skin pale, the make-up around the eyes darker, changing the coulour of her eyes to red and making the whites of the eyes brighter and I then put it onto a black background. To keep the poster simple I then put the names of the cast along the top and the name of the film in the middle, on the 'Let the right one in poster' however they had a review from a paper on the poster, after trying this out on my poster however I decided that It would take the focus away
from my image and they may lose interest.
Overall I believe that the combination of our main product and the ancillary texts are very effective. I believe this as I feel that they work well together in encouraging the target audience to go and see the film, this is because they both contain conventions that are successful within horror films and which people enjoy.
All of our magazines and posters have a similar theme which is the hospital gowns the ancillary texts can all be associated with our trailer by the audience thus
making them an affective combination.
Q3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?
One of the first problems we had after receiving audience feeback was the name of our film, from the first stages of planning we had decided to name our film 'The Doctor' however after watching this our audience were not clear on who the character of 'The Doctor' was and why this was the name of the film, therefore we had to go back and re-think the name of our film. As our trailer has more footage of the three girls we came up with film names that could relate to them such as 'The Lost Souls', 'The Damned' and 'The Damned Souls', eventually we decided on 'The Damned' as it is clear from the trailer that the film has three girls who have been 'damned'.
Another problem we encountered was that the audience were not clear on the story, in order to fin this Jamie and I decided we would add a new scene, we decided that an effective way to help convey the story would be to have a police officer giving information on three girls going missing, as we have a police station on site this was easily assessable so was successful. We also added a voiceover of a news report revealing that all three girls had been receiving help from Dr Corte. Once we had added these things we started to receive more positive feedback as the audience were now more aware of what the plot of the film is.
Throughout the editing process a lot of people commented on he 'annoying' laugh and scream in our trailer, once we showed our trailer to an audience they confirmed that this did not work, therefore we decided to go back and try and improve these things. We started by replacing the scream with one available on Grageband, the software on the Apple Macs that we used to edit the sound on our trailer. We then added an echo to the laugh to make it less annoying and more creepy.
After showing our final trailer to a year 12 media class we were disappointed by the audience feedback, the audience we not enthusiastic at all and had to be pushed to answer questions. When asked if the trailer would make them want to see the film only one person responded, the boy who responded said that he would not want to see the film as was not interested in horror films, however as this was not to do with the quality of the trailer we were disappointed with the response.
From my audience feedback I have learned that in order to make a successful trailer it is not just film footage that entice the audience, it is important to make your story clear to the audience, otherwise they are left confused rather than intrigued. It is also important for the name to be relevant and for the sound to work with
the trailer.
When I first showed my magazine to my audience I was told that it did not work as the mast head was too small and there was too much on, I therefore made my mast head larger and increased the size of my image to fit with this and I then removed some of the plugs to make the magazine more simple. Once I had done this the audience said that my magazine worked well as the colour scheme and the image kept in line with the conventions of horror films and the simplicity of the magazine was similar to that of EMPIRE. The first draft of my poster worked well however I moved the names of the cast members to the top of the page as my audience believed that this looked better. By gaining audience feedback I was able to learn what people really thought of my media texts and what needed to be changed in order to make them
successful.
Q4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
In order to present our work this year we used the website Blogger which we had not done before. By using this site teachers were able to supervise our work on a regular basis and give feedback easily. This also aided in making things easier as we were able to work from home making it less time consuming than written work.
After deciding that our trailer would be of the horror genre we decided that in able to gain knowledge about what people expect to see form horror films we posted a questionnaire on 'Yahoo Answers' and on social networking sites such as 'Facebook', this was effective as social networking sites have branched out so far, for example Facebook has over 500 million users thus making this an effective way to gain knowledge. By doing this we learned things such as our target audience like to see a dynamic villain in a horror film.
During the research stage we used the internet to evaluate trailers, magazines and posters. To evaluate trailers we used the site TrailerAddict as this made it possible to embed the trailer onto our blogs in order to evaluate it, this made things easier as Youtube was blocked in our school. The internet also made it easy to evaluate magazine covers and posters as rather than going out and buying magazines and finding posters Google has them all available at the click of a button and can be copied and pasted onto Blogger.
When editing the main media technologies I used were Adobe Photoshop, Serif Page Plus Final Cut Pro, Youtube, Motion, Garageband and Blogger as all of these except Youtube were available at school. These enabled me to edit both my trailer and my ancillary texts I was then able to make them available to other people by posting them on Blogger Youtube. Another form of technology I used was the photo editing website Piknic which along with Adobe Photoshop allowed me to create the desired effect of my images. By using Youtube to post the drafts of our trailer we were able to gain sufficient feedback as we had over 130 views.
To import our footage onto the macs we used iMovie, wee then proceeded to use Final Cut Pro on the Macs we have in school in order to edit our footage. This software allowed us to move our clips around when we wanted to in order to create an effective trailer with a clear storyline. Using this software we were also able to make our footage shorter if we needed to for example throughout the trailer we have flashes of Rachel that have been made shorter. We were also able to edit the footage so that it faded into the next stage to ensure that it looked clean cut. We also used the software Motion to the manipulate the text we used in our trailer, for example when the name of the film comes up on the screen, by using Motion we were able to use the effect 'Quaser In' and two behaviors "Earthquake' and 'Bad Film' these made the text look more professional. We also used Garageband in order to edit the sound on our trailer, we were able to add music to the trailer, replace the screams and add an echo to the laugh, that everyone found annoying, in order to make it more eerie.
For my evaluation I used Blogger, Windows Movie Maker and Acer Sound Recorder. By using Acer Sound Recorder I was able to recorde my entire evaluation then import it into Windows Movie Maker in order to use visual aids with my evaluation.
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Magazine and poster layouts and drafts
This is the first version of the layout I created for my magazine.
This is the draft of my poster that I created however I felt that this poster was not interesting enough to make the audience want to see the film.
As I was not happy with the poster I had created I designed this layout based on a poster I had seen for 'Let the right one in'. I feel that once completed this will have much more of an impact than my first draft.
This is the layout I will use for my magazine. My inspiration for this layout comes from a cover of EMPIRE magazine I have seen which is simplistic and effective.
This is the draft of my magazine. I feel that it works but still needs changing to ensure that it attracts my audience. To change this I will play around with the fonts and add another plug.
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