Sunday, 17 October 2010

Feed back on our Priliminary task

We showed our Preliminary task to the rest of our media class and received the following feedback.
  • They really thought Suzi's eye was scary and the USP of the trailer.
  • The mise-en-scene could have been more thought about when we tried to write on the white board 'It's time' which could not been scene on YouTube.
  • The heart beat was really effective in interacting with the audience and speed up keeping pace with the trailer
  • The font and the way it was delivered was really effective

I was really impressed with the feedback and everything they had said I had already picked up on, in my evaluation previously posted.

Tuesday, 12 October 2010

Finished Preliminary Task

Here I have posted our final preliminary task.

It begins with a dark screen and an instant tension building piece of non-diegetic music both high pitched and eerie. This is most likely created by the high pitched strings perhaps on a violin. the continuation of the music leads onto the first image of the production company. We used again in continuation of our fist 2 minutes of the film we made in year 12 we used 'Working Title' as it has funded many films of different genres and would fit into our teaser trailer. Again we use the transition of a fade to give the impression of a space in time and scene and the ominous black gives the impression of a dark mood to the trailer.

We then decided to jump straight into the action as we set up an eerie happening of the blind role up revealing a white board with the jagged and creepy writing revealing the phrase ' It's Time' which we again felt had a very ominous tone to it. The only issue was that the writing is not seen clearly on the screen when watched on 'YouTube', I believe this is due to the bad quality of the transition form the 'WindowsMeida' to 'YouTube'. This is a shame as the audience are not able to feel the full effect of the composition of the frame, leading to a less immersive experience. At this point we then introduce a steady heart beat that slowly increases it's pace throughout the trailer. We made the heart beat magnified above all the other sounds as the pace of the heart increasing suggests anxiety and panic to the audience which are the emotions we wish for them to be feeling when watching the trailer. We purposely have left the heart beat as both diegetic and non-diegetic leaving it to the audiences interpretation as to what they think is happening within the frame and what we can interpret from the shot of the composition given.

After this brief action of the revealing of the words we then get a quick glimpse of Suzi's eye. This shot only last for a second and is very fuzzy, so the audience are lead into believing that they are not meant to have seen this quick shot and that something scary is about to happen, again with the aid of the increasing heart beat and the fast paced editing, the audience's tension and mood is enhanced. Straight after the audience are given the title of the film in a printed type of font and also a printed manner so as if a documentary was being written on a type writer. I love this effect and thinks it makes the film more realistic and believable to the audience, deepening their emotions of the film. The line of 'The Haunting of Therfeild' again fits into the font and the way the font is directed at the audience, rather like 'The Haunting of Connecticut'.

A black fade transition then leads to a more action filled shot of Suzi grinning in a sadistic way at directly at the camera which moves form a mid shot into a zoom and fixates on Suzi's eye which has the white contact lens in it, that gives the audience a knot in their stomach feeling of 'all is not right or as it seems'. The movement and shot of the camera is enhanced by an effect we found on 'Adobe Premiere' which was called ghosting, which seemed to blur the image making it a lot more disorientating for the audience to watch and focus on a particular are until it reachs the point of focus and our unique selling point Suzi's eye. Again the beating heart acts as the continuity through the trailer linking all the images together, being the main point of focus to the audiences ears with only slight back ground noises such as the water trickling out the tapes. This forces the audience to become more involved in the trailer.

We then use a fade transition from one shot to the next without the dipping to black, as this keeps the audience motivated and intrigued by the eye which is what we wanted the audience to be intrigued and frightened by. The direct shot of Suzi looking straight at the camera in a close up shot is very off putting for the audience and makes them feel again uncomfortable and frightened. The editing then becomes quick paced and more disorientating for the audience as it cuts to a shot of the 'Mathematics' sign which indicates the film to take place in a school. The shot is shot at a canted angle again forcing the audience to feel disorientated and frightened. The 'Mathematics' sign is shot from two angles again both canted and gives the illusion of things being repeated, giving an ominous tone. Within the quick sequence more images of Suzi's eye are introduced and reminded to the audience. Howver something more is introduced as we decided to capture some static and white noise on the trailer giving the impression of the documentary was that the film is filmed in much like 'Cloverfield' or 'The Blair Witch Project' which enhances the fact of it being realistic. And 'real' people are involved in the events that are filmed. The white noise hints that the film has been interrupted and manipulated which is why some of the scenes are repeated or fixated on frightening images.

The prolonged image again of Suzi's eye with the increasing heart beat, suggests that she is the thing to be afraid of in the story although we don't know the back ground of the story. A quick transition to the inter title of 'The lesson has begun' leaves the audience feeling uneasy and worried as if there is no choice in what will happen next or that they can decide to watch the film or not as the trailer is telling them what is happening and who is in control. The unorganised and almost frenzied composition of the words and some of the phrases in red attract the audience, giving the continuing theme that the film takes place in a school. The slow fade into the release date suggests that the trailer's pace has slowed down and that it is coming to an end. The hear beat has also reached the peak and is very fast paced meaning that the person who the heart belongs to has had meet their fate. The information is only giving what is necessary to the audience, which creates more hype around the trailer and makes them want to know more and leads the to finding out more on the trailer getting them to talk about it or look it up on the Internet. The rest of the trailer is white noise and more static, indicating to the audience the trailer is finished and that it has ended in a disjointed manner. The eerie ending again leaves the audience in a state of unease especially as to how long the shot is left for.

I really like our teaser trailer as I feel that is has all the convensions of a teaser trailer but also gives the audience as much of the action and curiosity to make them want to see more and watch the trailer again. I thought we worked well as a team and used all our ideas together incorporating them together to create our trailer which does look authentic and something that I would go and see for myself at the cinema.

Monday, 11 October 2010

Blair Witch Project teaser trailer

Here I have posted probably one of the more well known horror films. Made in 1999 'The Blair Witch Project' was most likely one of the more well known films in the 1990's and was compared to the other famous horror films of the time such as 'The Exorcist'. Due to the way it is filmed and edited I believe much like the trailer for 'Paranormal Activity 2' atmosphere is created to the most fearful extent by just these two principles. Which is why I think it would be another good teaser trailer to look at to inspire our own trailer.

Genre: There is a clear indication that the film is going to be a horror film although the way in which it is filmed suggests a very realistic approach. This is hinted by the lighting, music and intertitles.

Narrative: The first intertitle that the audience is confronted with is the one that describes the narrative. Where typically a group of teenager who are up to mischief go into a wood and lots of strange and spooky things happen to them. But the format and blank text suggests the documented style, leading the audience to believe the film is actually real. The real events then seem to make the film the next level of horror.

Target audience: Again due to the common and well known themes of a horror teaser trailer, the conventional target audience are expected to enjoy the trailer and watch the film. Being mainly teenagers-early 20 year old.

Music: The non-diegetic music is perhaps the most frightening part of the trailer. The gong sort of sound prolonged and with an eerie hint to it makes the audience literally feel goose-bumps. The repetitiveness of the music only scares the audience more as each of the intertitles appear the 'gong' sound penetrates the audience and their attention is drawn to the intertitle. This also becomes more frightening as the screams are added into the mixture of eerie sounds and music, almost creating a climax of sound which is then suddenly cut out, leaving the audience unnerved.

Shot types/camera angles: The film is entirely seen on hand-held camera, which gives the indication that the entire film is going to be from a point of view shot. This is somewhat more scary for the audience as they are placed in the characters shoes and can only see what they see. This creates a string link between audience and trailer.

Pace: The entire trailer is fast paced keeping the audience in a constant state of unease and visual captivation. This is shown through the fast editing and only being on one scene for no more than ten seconds. This doesn't give the audience a chance to rest or take a break from the intense footage which is why the trailer works so well to evoke a response from it's audience.

Dialogue/Voiceover: There is no voice over throughout the trailer only minute pieces of coherent dialogue. The dialogue is completely unaimed at the audience. We realise that the footage is far to realistic to explain what is happening and find we only can see and hear what the characters are saying to each other through the small hand held cameras. There is very little dialogue only screaming, shouting and calling to one another, giving a sense of pandemonium and panic.

Special effects: Again there are little to no special effects within the trailer giving the impression of a very real film/documentary. The black and white effect gives the impression of the disorientated state and the negative appearance of the film, making it look bleak and the lighting more dramatic. This puts the audience on edge as it places the thought of 'It could happen to me'. I think this is a great technique that we should definitely consider for our final teaser trailer.

Credits and Intertitles: The intertitle are what perhaps creates the mood of fear within the audience as they feel that they cannot grasp the full concept of how realistic the film actually is. The comments that appear while the footage is up and running, and the names mention again suggests how scary the film really is and that the target audience are subconsciously hinted.

I really like this trailer as when i watched it I too was actually quite frightened by it. I would love to evoke the same response to the audience who watch our teaser trailer, which we can hopefully do by following some of the ideas used in 'The Blair Witch Project' teaser trailer.

Nightmare on Elm Street Trailer Analysis

Today in class we discussed the difference in the two versions of the film 'Nightmare on Elm Street' trailers one from 1984 and the other 2009. I found this a great help as to see how the audience has changed and what we found scary back then we have become desensitised to gory horror as seen in the 80's trailer but are more afraid of the second because it is the psychological horror that we fear.

Here is the 1984 trailer of Nightmare on Elm Street:



Here is the 2009 trailer of Nightmare on Elm Street:



Genre: It is clear to see that both of the trailers are Horror films. The audience immediately can decide this by the burnt man frequently appearing in the 80's trailer and more of the silhouette shown in 09. Also the 09 shows the creepy chanting children which set and eerie ominous tone.

Narrative: Both of the trailers seem to keep closely to the same narrative. This follows the burnt man haunting people (mainly girls) before killing them in horrible ways. The audience are shown more of the storyline in the 09 trailer as we see Freddy Kruger before he is burnt and how it happens. The 80's trailer uses far more gore in the trailer which suggest the 80's audience were far more afraid of gore horror than the psychological horror shown in the 09 trailer. However both trailers follow the same catch phrase of 'Don't fall asleep.'

Representation: In the 09 trailer the 'bad guy' is never shown to the audience and so is more mysterious and therefore frightening when left the audiences own thoughts. This also gives focus to Freddy's hand with the many knives replace fingers. The innocent are dressed in varying light colours which suggest their innocence in the film. The 80's trailer uses the iconic hat and the red and black shirt that makes it so memorable. This seems to be a crucial part of both the trailers as the costumes seem to define that characters as the girls are dressed in white and Freddy in black, the colour of evil.

Audience: The classic horror theme throughout both trailer the audience know that this films target audience are teenagers ranging to 20 year old. however the 80's trailer suggests a younger audience from the more childish font shown in an not scary American font.

Media Language: In summary the trailer from 09 is defined by the characters and the location. however the 80's trailer has more blood and is set in a more suburban area with dated special effects, suggesting the change of horror from gore to psychological and the advance in technology over the past 20 years or so.

2012 Teaser Trailer

Genre: Sci-fi/futuristic/action/thriller

Narrative: The end of the world

Unique Selling Point (USP): The visual effects

Target audience: wide range-from teenagers to 40 year old.

Music: non-diegetic daunting eerie music, projecting panic feeling of end of the world.

Shot types/camera angles: Wide shots showing the magnitude of the actions and the venerability of the human race and how fragile our structures are.

Pace: Fast paced with slow shots of the action giving the impression of the great magnitude of the events.

Dialogue: No dialogue makes the audience more intense and the intertitle act as the communication as to what is happening.

Voiceover: Again there is no voice over leaving the audience feeling they are on there own much like the characters in the trailer.

Special effects: As these are the USP there is a great use of them are done in great depth and detail giving the verisimilitude and immersive experience.

Credits and Intertitles: These are the main communication to the audience and are very simple and talking directly to the audience making the audience feel they have to watch the film, to continue with the rest of the film to see what will happen.

Paranormal Activity 2 teaser trailer

Here I have started to analyse some of the films from the horror genres that we had brain stormed earlier. This is the new and upcoming film 'Paranormal Activity 2' the success of the first indicates that the sequel is going to be just as successful.

Genre: This teaser trailer is clearly of the horror theme. The audience know this by the dark colours used the constant braking of the scenes and white noise not to mention we are confronted by the footage of an actual audience in the cinema that have watched the first prequel 'Paranormal Activity' the audiences expression from the first film and the second is said to be even more scary.

Narrative: Little is known about the plot line of the upcoming film as no direct scene is given. The audience instead have to use their knowledge of the previous film and also the small pieces of footage given to them in the trailer. All the audience can establish from the trailer is the woman perhaps the main character is possessed and is a threat to the people in the house.

Unique Selling Point (USP): I think that the USP of this film will be the way in which it is filmed. The shots are taken in a 'security camera' type way revealing the date and time of the events that are taking place. This creates a whole new atmosphere for the audience making them feel that this is all the more real and it could happen to them.

Target Audience: Again the trailer helps the audience decide who the target audience is not only the clear definition of the horror genre suggests teenager/early 20's target audience. But the trailer also shows the target audeince in the cinema watching the prequal film, again showing teenagers and early aged people with the occasional elder audience memeber.

Music: There is no music throughout the entire trailer all the sound that the audince is given are the digetic sounds of the camera switching from scene to scene. By doing so the audience are put into the scene and there is no escapism for the audince, creating a more immersive experience.

Shot types/camera angles: Again the shot types are kept very simple in which we assume throughout the entire film. This is shown is a array of high angle shots, low angle and mid shots. This keeps in sinc with the 'security/documentary' type of filming, leading the audience to feel the film is more realistic than it is, they then become more emotionally involved and find themselves more immersed in the film.

Pace: The pace is a mixture of fast paced editing and slow blurring inter titles which give the impression of panic and unease. This creates more tension within the audience's atmosphere and they in turn wish to know what is going to happen next.

Dialogue/Voice over: Very similar to the music. Interestingly there is little to no dialogue within the trailer the only information that we get to know are from the inter titles, which makes it crucial for the audience to stay engaged and keep watching. The trailer seems to be focusing on the 'less is more' approach.

Special effects: There are very little special effects within the teaser trailer. The extent of which is a man flying towards the camera. I think this trailer is a good one for my group to focus on as it manages to produce fear in the audience without really doing anything dramatic. I believe that if we too want to do a horror this may be a very bold and good option for us to think about.

Credits and intertitle: The intertitles are the glue that holds the this trailer together, as they manage to speak to the audience give background information and also continue the flow from one scene to the next. However they only reveal what is necessary to know such as the title of the film, release date, previous background of the prequel and how this fits into the audience's relationship with the film.

I think that the 'Paranormal Activity 2' trailer really does show how grasping and exhilarating a teaser trailer can be using simple shots and timing effects. I really think that my group will look at this further as we develop the stages of which we are in to progressing to make our own teaser trailer.

Tuesday, 5 October 2010

The Haunting in Connecticut trailer

I have tried to find the teaser trailer for the film 'The Haunting in Connecticut'
but was unable to find one. I therefore have got the full length trailer for a few reasons.



Firstly I wanted to show Lora and Alana the music at the end of the trailer. The really creepy and eerie piano playing was really disturbing putting that audience on edge and very alarmed. I feel we should look for some sort of non-copy right music like this as I feel it would really enhance our preliminary task and would add to the effect that we are trying to create and I feel it would also flow with our main task if we choose to do a horror themed trailer as i expect, as we seem to be leaning towards it.

Secondly like the 'Super 8' teaser trailer the editing really sums up the theme of the film, the quick 'flash-on-flash-off' effect is displayed throughout between the narrative parts of the trailer. However unlike the 'Super 8' trailer there is a voice over of the woman character from the film. This gives the audience the impression they are being spoken to by the character. Also there is a lot of dialogue in the trailer which shows the plot line of the film and also its unique selling point the violent super natural effect. The film also has a great deal of shots and angles making the trailer look exciting and frightening, with all of the spooky happenings being shown at great length. The special effects are also shown and show that they are very effective and believable adding to the unique selling point as to the verisimilitude being involved where the audience are so immersed.

The film being broken up by the credits and intertitles give the audience a breather from the action but also the information given of the release date and name of the film. I think this is again very effective and should be taken into consideration in our own teaser trailer.

Thursday, 30 September 2010

Editing the Preliminary Task

We have begun to edit our preliminary task. We spent the first part of our time watching the footage that we have been able to film to see as to whether any of it was particularly exciting or would enhance the mood that we were wanting to create.
After we had looked through the footage we began to try and edit it. We first looked through as to what we think would look good at the start of the trailer as an opening image, we settled on an eire shot of Suzi's eye that had a white contact in it. Lora had said that it would be effective if we used a 'flash on-flash off' type of shot. She then used some of the shots from the teaser trailer from 'super 8' to display the effect to Alana and I. I thought that this was a really good idea and had thought of something similar myself, however Lora had explained it far better. I also suggested whether it would be a good idea if we could add in some white noise to make the trailer seem as if it were made in a sort of documented style. Alana and Lora again thought this could work very effectively as seen in the films 'White Noise' and 'The Blair Witch Project'. We believed that if we did fast flashes of the same image of Suzi's eye but from different shots and angles this would look very distorted and scary. One of the shots were the shot was blurred turned out to be a very impressive and effective shot meaning that we will use it at some point in the teaser trailer.
After we had ordered the shots that we wanted the trailer to run in we decided to look at the effects that we could use to enhance the mood and create a effect of verisimilitude. I pointed out an effect called 'Ghosting' we found this distorted the images of Suzi's eye further and thought it would become visually captivating to the audience. We also used some of the brightness balance on some of the shots either creating them darker of lighter depending as to whether the actual shot was to light or dark for the mood we were trying to create.
We also tried to find some non-copy right music that would fit into the theme and effect of our trailer but have not found anything yet, we hope to continue this next lesson.
We have not yet added into the trailer the narrative on a black screen between the shots due to the shortness of time, but we intend to continue this in our next lesson.

Tuesday, 28 September 2010

Preliminary Task

Yesterday we began to film our preliminary task. Our topic was 'Therfield'. As we are leaning towards the idea of doing a horror teaser trailer for our main task we thought it would be a good idea to begin to get to grasps with filming the horror genre on camera to try and adjust to the angles and movements in order to create a effect on our audience.
We decided to go along the lines of a simple 'Stepford Wives' theme where everything seemed to perfect, we then looking back on the super 8 trailer and also 'The Unborn' decided to break up the footage into smaller clips with narrative on a black screen to set the plot line summary and hint to the audience the relevant information and also the tone of the film. We have thought up the title 'The haunting of Therfield' very much like 'The haunting of Connecticut' the almost documented effect of the title makes it seem all the more real. I also came up with the idea of a catch phrase for our teaser trailer for our priliminary task, as by watching 'Super 8' realised it stuck in the audiences head and would get the curious about what they had just seen and would want to know more. My own idea was that we use the phrase 'The lesson has started' as it relates back to the title 'The haunting of Therfield' but also through a simple phrase becomes more eiry and alarming to the audience.
We only did a small number of shots as we wanted to keep the teaser trailer short as that seems to be almost a trade mark of teaser trailers. We used some classic images of a spooky school effect such a writing on a white board and canted angles of signs representing the school departments such as maths. However we used a very spontanious idea, as our friend Suzi had a white contact lense in her eye and we realised how eirey it was and asked if she would not mind appearing in the trailer. Watching back seemed the most effective after shotting 3 or 4 takes we saw one of the takes was rather blury and thought that it was rubbish but looking back at it, it looks rather effective and we could possibly use it in the trialer. We have started to translate the footage onto Adobe Premire. We plan this afternoon to look at the footage and begin to edit it into the teaser trailer which I am thouroughly looking forward to.

Friday, 24 September 2010

Super 8 Teaser Trailer

Here I have decided that it would be appropriate to look at many other genres and types of teaser trailers to allow my group and myself to gain a wider knowledge of the variety of teaser trailers and how they can be shown to the audience in a way to evoke different responses.



Here I have posted the teaser trailer 'Super 8' introduced with very little information not only from the marketing campaign but the teaser trailer itself.

The trailer begins with the logo of 'Paramount' however the entire screen has been darkened and so hints to the audience already the genre of the film, before showing any of the film. Hinting the darker more sinister the target audience are hinted, ranging for older teenagers- to the more 40-50 year old audience.

Plunging the audience into darkness of the night the audience are left feeling disorientated and curious as the the setting of the scene immediately asking questions to themselves. By showing only small glimpses of film, puts the audience into the question of what is the trailer about and what is going on? The film is broken up by sudden blackouts with minor parts off information displayed in a military fashion, suggesting the footage that the audience are seeing is classified.

The audience are also plunged into action, showing the mix of genres that the film is encompassing. With the train exploding, resulting in a secret almost monster type creature denting the turned up carriage. The audience can also interpret from the narrative shown that there is some sort of monster involved from the quote 'It arrives.' which almost becomes the catch phrase for the film. The titles also show the directors Steven Spielberg and J.J Abrams. BY doing this more hype is created about the films and audiences begin to have high expectations of the films as such big names are mentioned in the trailer.

Overall I feel the trailer is very effective and uses great parts of the film without revealing the plot line, stars involved or characters or even what the audience is supposed to be afraid of. The only thing that i would comment on is that the length of teaser trailer is over 1:30 mins and so this is pushing on the cliches of teaser trailers.

Wednesday, 22 September 2010

Up Teaser Trailer


Up perhaps serves as an excellent starting point as to what a teaser trialier should include. First before running into the action of the film, the production companies are annouced being PIXAR and Walt Disney. Even from the these production comapany the audience understand that the trailer most likely will be aimed towards children as the past films produced by these companies such as Monsters Inc. (PIXAR) and Finding Nemo (PIXAR & Walt Disney). Both of which were huge successes.
The vivid colours used on the screen allow the younger audeinces to be attracted into the trailer. Ballons also connotate a chilidish aspect. The audeince also realises that the trailer and most likely the fillm is animated and so much of reality is substituted for the fanciful imagination. As the simple action of the house floating upwards through the sky and revealing the main character the audience understand the gist of the film without revealing any of the plotline, making the audeince want to know more.
Also the audio on the trailer is very simple, with no non-diegetic music. The only sound is of the ballons bouncing off of eachother and Mr Fredrickson (the main character) with a simple phrase of "Afternoon" exagerates the normality of the sitiaution, which appears comical not only to the younger audeince but prehaps the older audience, making parents also want to go and see the film.
After the comical event has happened leaving the audience wanting more the more specific details fade in from behind a cloud, revealing the title 'Up' with the production companies above it. Following this there is a fade to the release date at the cinema and also the revelation that the film will be shown in 3D showing its unique selling point, making higher quality picture and a more immersive experience for the audience.
All of this happens within the space of just over a minute keeping to the conventional time of a teaser trailer.

I feel that this trailer is a great success showing all the necessary elements to attract the right audience without giving to much of the plot away and I feel that my group can bennfit from taking some of the elements into our own teaser trialier and hopefully add our own twist to whatever genre and film we decide to create.

Thursday, 22 July 2010

The Unborn Trailer

Here I have posted the clip of 'The Unborn' this was a very successful film at the cinema especially with the younger audeince. I love the dark camera shots within the trailer and the fast snippits of action leaving the audience wanting to know more, however the timing is impecable as the audience are left in suspence as they do not know the end of each scene or how the plot will end. This also leaves the audience almost thirsty for more and wanting to know the unexepected and expereince the thrill of the tense atmosphere created by the trailer. I think this is something that we perhaps want to encorpret into our trailer as it provoks a large emotional response from the audience.
I think that I will show Alana and Lora the unborn as it gives a series of horror connotations that I think we would like to portray in our film.

What is a Teaser Trailer?

We have now begun our A2 course in media. For our first class we were asked to list what is a teaser trialer? what are the conventions of a teaser trailer?
  • Not much information is given away- making the audeince interested
  • The name of the film
  • The genre of the film is given
  • The release date
  • The target audience the film is aimed at
  • Usually less that 1 minute long
  • Generally non-sequential

To understand the conventions of a teaser trailer i have decided that i will analyse some teaser trailers from different genres to see in what aspect the obey these conventions and also the effect of them on the audience. I beleive that the teaser trailers are vastly more effective than over some other forms of advertising an up and coming film as the show a taster of the film in order the leave the audenice thirsty for more but also with many questions around the film forcing them to want to go and learn more of the film, leading them to look the film up on the internet leading to more advertising for the film.

In order for the teaser trailer and the extended trailer to be judged successful depends on the amount of people attracted to watch the film at the cinema. If the film does not matched up to the trailer than the trailer has obviously been successful in getting an audeince to see the film.

Genre Mind Map

Today Laura and I created a mind map as to what we would perhaps consider to do for our teaser trailer. We divided the genres into five that we really wanted to do. These were all horror based genres and we really believe that by doing a horror genre we could make it really effective and would create something quite dramatic and immerse for our audience. We had previously done a 'chick flick' genre for the opening scene and we enjoyed doing this genre and found we could really relate to the genre and made something quite believable.

However we now think that with the skills and techniques that we have learnt and acquired through the previous year of media studies that we could perhaps make something more skillful and dramatic with greater and bolder filming angles and shots. We have also created a better association with the editing software and the effects that it can supply us with, I feel that we could make a really effective teaser trailer through using some of the effects on the Adobe editing software.

We have listed some of the films that we have been inspired with and the genres that they fall under and the successful trailer and teaser trailers that they have been able to produce. One that is not listed however was the 'Blair Witch Project' which is one of our main inspirations form the documentary feel and the hand-held effect really gives the impression of an authentic film.
We have written some other documentary style films such as 'Paranormal Activity' and them the more big budget films that have made an impact on the audience due to there captivity and immersing experience e.g 'Inception'.


I feel that by doing a mind map it has helped us see clearly the options we have and to also allow us to reflect on what would be effective but also manageable. I think we will refer to this mind map frequently and will be a good way to know of films that we can analyse and look at different ideas shown by them.

Early Brainstorming of genres for our trailer

At the moment Alana and Lora are on holiday. So with out a group discussion I am not very close into finding what we are planning to do for our trailer. We have been brain storming as to what genres we would like to look at, but the two main genres which have caught our attention were horror and chickflick.
We have already accomplished our interpritation of the chickflick genre in our year 12 corse work, when we decided to create an opening two minutes of a film.
While Alana and Lora aer away I am limited as to what I can decide and blog as no decision has been made. Therefore I am going to look at trailers of both the horror and chickflick genre.

Thursday, 8 July 2010

Our old Blog adress from year 12

Here I have posted our old year 12 blog address this allows a link between both my old and my new blog. My old blog allows me to reflect on what I have done before, so I can apply what I know and have learnt to my new blog. My old blog also allows me to see the structure inwhich I set out my old blog allowing me see the detail and depth i need to go into to achieve the best possible trailer that I can make and also where my written blog posts may be able to be as detailed as possible so readers find my posts easy to understand and follow the porgress throughout the process.

http://hannahlauraalana.blogspot.com/