FInal Teaser Trailer: A Valediction

Poster,First Attempts

These are our final designs for the film poster. Although we agree that both them would work in targeting our target audience, we decided that we should go with the poster that shows both of the main characters and is more aimed at our target audience.

Poster Pictures, Unedited

These are some of the pictures that we thought we could use for our film poster; however they have not been edited yet.

Some of the ideas that we had for the poster was that for the picture showing the two main characters we would fade the colour a little to make it look dimmer and have the female character seem as if she was see through and more ghost like. This would then relate back to the main teaser trailer.

Another idea that we had was that for the other picture of the female characters face, we would add it in to another picture that we took of a mirror to seem as if she was in the mirrors reflection looking out at the audience.

Poster: Editing Stage

We have recently come up with a few poster ideas that we think would be good in engaging our target audience. However, we wanted the poster to be as professional as it could be. So we asked one of our friends, Lottie Rider, to help us with the photos as she has a high quality camera and is very good at Photoshop, which is very helpful because we plan to edit the photos to give them a more professional look.

We started out by going into a field and taking a few pictures of the two main characters standing near a wooded area. We thought that this would be a suitable location to take a few photos because part of our film is based in the woods and it would relate to the film. We then decided that we should go to a different location to find some more ideas. Our next location was at a friend’s house where we had originally filmed the trailer, we decided to take a few shots of the mirror because this was a big part of the trailer that the audience could see straight away and relate to. As this went on we thought of the idea of the main female characters face being shown in the mirror, but not as a real person, but as the ghost that is haunting the main character. For this we asked Lottie if she could somehow make it as if she was faded in the mirror to give the ghost like effect.

At the moment we are still in the editing stage so do not have any photos uploaded at the moment, but we are close to coming up with a final idea for our film poster.

Teaser Trailer (WIP)

Horror Film Trailer

Horror/Thriller Poster Research

Horror is one of the least respected genres of cinema, and yet it portrays much of today’s culture and values within its context. These movies show heavy symbolism, especially in the portrayal of women and femininity, through images of fear of castration, and the strength of females. Horror films are famous for portraying women as damsels in distress who are usually murdered within the first five minutes as punishment for their indiscretions. They are also portrayed as antagonists, which can be seen as a reflection of men’s pathological fear of women. Horror is a genre that rarely features women in a non-exploitative way, even with modern movies such as the new ‘Friday the 13th’ being extremely sexist.



There are however positive female characters in this genre and these films are usually much more respected by critics and the public. In movies such as ‘The Descent’ and ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’, women can be seen defeating typically male villains and exhibiting strength and intelligence, moving from victim to heroine.

The female subject is shown in horror movies in different ways through time. Women are beginning to come into their own in the horror genre, showing that they are as strong as men and are not the sexual objects they were once perceived.

Storyboard

A rough storyboard of our teaser trailer can be found here.

The Male Gaze

Powerpoint of the Male Gaze

This powepoint describes what the Male Gaze is and how it links in with movie planning.

Locations for a Horror/Thriller Movie

This is a great website to learn about all of the best locations to film a Horror/Thriller movie. Locations

Codes and Conventions of a Horror/Thriller Movie

The conventions of the Thriller/Horror genre are to do with sound and editing. E.g. quick cuts and camera angle changes, music that gives tension when appropriate. It can be do with lighting, especially the use of shadow. Mirrors and stairs are also conventions of thriller movies.

The codes and conventions are mainly what the audiences expect to see within a thriller, this includes all types of thrillers, such as cross genres, such as action, adventure, sci-fi etc.

What audiences expect to see is what producers need to include in attracting their audience. The codes and conventions within a thriller mainly allows a female protagonist to be a victim of a dominant male character, this enables the audiences to familiar themselves with the stereotypes as females are always vulnerable dependent victims, and the dominant male figures as being dominant.

Psychological thrillers which are sub genres play with audience’s minds by manipulating a character or a plot to keep audiences guessing. However cross thriller genres involving adventure and sic-fi; use a slightly different way of using codes and conventions as there are not many ways to engage audiences. For example within a thriller, in a scene where it is scary and engaging, it will be more likely to see dark colour's so the scene can be represented in a way that audiences expect to see it, also the sound which would be loud and intense.

Media Film Ideas

Genre: Horror/Thriller

Subjects that we may hint at during the teaser trailer:
• Marxism/Feminism
• Myth
• Theorists
• Binary Opposites
• Narrative Arcs
• Stereotypes/Countertypes
• Mise en scene
• Realism
Plot Ideas:

• Creature may have infected the persons mind (may not have to show creature but make some hints that it could be seen)
• Main character can sense it in everyday life, but doesn’t know is it is real or just imaginary.
• Main character may have a brain disorder that hasn’t been discovered yet
• That the creature is real but is said to be from a myth, so it hasn’t been discovered yet in the animal kingdom.

Characters:
• Between two/three characters

Produced by Oliver Musto