Props needed

Props
- fake blood
- test tubes

- Bunsen burners

- pretend chemicals for experiments 
- science goggles

- lab coats

- clip boards

- make up ( white face paint, eyeliner, eye shadow)

- long corridors

- chairs

- ropes or chains

- ripped clothing


By Adele

Thriller/ horror trailers

Horror /Thriller trailers

Dead Silence

·         Very low key lighting, main colours consist of grey, black, red, blue

·         Text in between clips which outline the storyline and make the trailer easier to follow

·         Voice over of different character whist showing different clips

·         Quick flashes of action, disorientates the audience

·         Drone all the way through which builds tension

·         Sound effects such as quick bangs which dd suspense and a scary element

·         Pace changed 13 seconds in when the music starts to fade

·         The pace changes again at 33 seconds when the audience see flashing, disturbing images such as the woman screaming and a blood stain

·         Special effects of texts look like a scratch and hype the film up to be violent

·         Lots of lightening flashes which make the film more scary and falls into typical horror film genres.

·         Phrases such as “on the razors edge of fear”, the word “razor” suggests violence as a razor can easily harm.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=IcbulUo4b2s

Creep trailer

·         Begins with hand-held camera, so makes it seem like the audience is the protagonist

·         Low key lighting

·         Heavy breathing is played over the footage creating suspense and fear withing the audience

·         Deserted setting

·         Similarly to “Dead Silence” text is also played in-between clips which include rhetorical questions such as “missed the last train home?” which makes the audience think for themselves

·         0.45 seconds first sign of bloody hand and the the face of a bloody man is revealed

·         0.50 seconds, first scream is heard and is played over footage of the female running

·         Flashing images, disorientate the audience

·         No order of images, audience see quick clips of disturbing images repeating a faster pace

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZUzM_p6a1k&feature=related

The fog

·         Starts with pan of a lake which has a mix of blues and greys and a sound effect over the image creates suspense and a scary atmosphere

·         Like both other trailers, text is used in order to roughly outline the plot

·         Additionally lots of quick jump cuts quicken the pace, this is followed by a silence and then a dramatic jump cut which makes the audience jump

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSPOrqfKNN4&feature=related

By Adele

Risk factors to consider when filming

·         When filming in the science lab there may be chemicals around so we need to be careful not to spill any. Also, we would need to wipe over the tabletops before starting to film to make sure there are no chemicals left on them.

·         Needs to know where the fire exits are in case of an emergency

·         We would be filming outside of school hours so we need to be aware that there are other people in the building

·         There is a lot of running which increases the risk of someone falling over and hurting themselves

·         Also, because the film trailer is quite action packed we need to be careful about hurting others e.g. when running up to someone being careful that they don’t collide into one another

Posted by Hannah

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Concept Boards

Adele and Emily worked together to produce poster analysis concept boards relative to our film and the genre. Below are two pictures of the work they made.

Francesca developed a mostly image based concept board, including examples of infected peoples possible make-up, laboratory settings, scientists, people trapped in dark, haunting rooms and even some thriller movie posters to have an idea for the movie poster we will make in the future.

IDEA: Spooky Corridor

As Media Studies students we are always thinking about possibilities of where to film. Outside our media studies classroom Francesca found a new corridor that had just been made which would be perfect for filming a scary scene in to put into the trailer (especially if the filming took place at night). 


Planning is an essential part of creating a trailer, and without planning the set and areas to film in, it would look less professional (a scary thriller would not be very effective if it was all filmed in someone's house or a classroom). 





Post made by Francesca 05/10/2011

GROUP DISCUSSION: Target Audience

The group was discussing the possible features of the target audience for our narrative genre, e.g. who they are (age/gender) and what their likes, dislikes and interest are. We decided to vlog part of our discussion:

Left to right:
Emily, Adele, Hannah.
Francesca was holding the camera.


Post made by Francesca 05/10/2011

What Classification will are film be?

Post by Emilyhttp://www.bbfc.co.uk/classification/guidelines/15-2/

Here we have a print screen of the information i have gathered on whether to classify the film as a 15. We have come to the conclusion we are going to classify it as a 15. We have also researched what an 18 film can't include and we decided that a 15 allows all the features we want to include. By choosing it to be a 15 we can appeal to a wider audience and this will allow us to have a wider variety of where our trailer can be viewed, e.g. on tv and certain times

Newspaper reviews

We decided to research some newspaper reviews in order to find out what features of horror/thriller  films were successful and which were unsuccessful.

The others, guardian review
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/89593/others

Resident evil, daily mail review
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-127580/Resident-Evil-Cert-15.html

By Adele