Make a list of films from your chosen genre that you are familiar with.
FINAL DESTINATION.
THE ORPHAN.
THE RING.
Which films will influence your own project?
FINAL DESTINATION.
THE RING.
THE KNOWING.
Explain how they will influence your project.
WE ARE USING THE IDEA OF DISASTERS FROM THE KNOWING AND FINAL DESTINATION.
THE SINGLED OUT CHILD, RAPIDLY WRITING ON PAPER FROM THE KNWOING.
THE SYMPATHY FOR THE VILLAIN AND A YOUNG GIRL BEING THE VILLAIN AND VICTIM FROM THE RING.
What common themes do these films have? (e.g. horror fims often deal with teenage morality, overcoming evil, challenging suburban lifestyles, jealousy etc).
OVER COMING EVIL
TEENAGE MORALITY
HIDDEN STORY, REASON FOR REVENGE
How do these films create narrative "enigmas" for the audience?
NEVER SEEING THE GIRLS FACE; HIDDEN BY HAIR.
WHY DOES SHE WANT REVENGE?
How do they appeal to their audience?
TEENAGERS USUALLY WANT REVENGE AND CAN BE AGGRESSIVE/BITCHY.
PEOPLE IN GENERAL ARE ALWAYS CURIOUS AND WANT TO BE "IN THE KNOW" SO THEREFORE WILL WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE GIRL LOOKS LIKE; DOES SHE LOOK JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE?
Conventions:
Narrative convention : Teenager previously bullied, wants revenge and people die.
Character conventions : Hidden face (mysterious); young person; Villain = Victim.
typical iconography : Dim lighting/ low key; typical teenage clothing, victim/villain is very average.
Camerashot conventions : Close ups; long shots.
Editing conventions : Occassional fast pace cutting; lack of continuity to create suspense.
Casting conventions : Average looking teenage girl, long dark hair.
Sound conventions : Eery sounds; scratching/screeching irritating sound effects; laughter buy others; echoes and blurred sounds.
The Knowing Teaser trailer.
Voice over.
Introduction of main characters, showing loving relationship, typical of a horror.
Usually some sort of closeness or connection between two people.
In this particular trailer, it is father and son. Mum had previously died.
Characters profession is shown, probably chosen because it doesn’t give away the narrative, it is more background information, showing that the genre maybe sci-fi.
The setting emphasises time by showing computers and updated technology.
Shows some of the narrative, but the part where it makes the ending unpredictable, it shows different parts of the story without linking it up completely so you still want to go and see it to find out how it all comes together.
Maybe showing too much for a teaser trailer, it is more of a trailer.
The Ring 3 Teaser trailer.
Close ups of “underground movies” typed on Google.com, from this we know what time the movie is set, and we automatically know that someone is onto something needs to research something mysterious.
Very slow trailer. Very basic, looks home made.
Slightly disturbing images.
Friday, 25 September 2009
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
FEEDBACK for both film and trailer ideas.
To gain feedback on our ideas we approached many people of the appropriate age group (15+) to give us an idea on how successful they think our film would be, if ever it was to be sold. We had alot of positive and negative feedback on both our ideas, and overall this helped us to determine which film we would choose to continue to work on for our teaser trailer.
THE LIST
Ra'eesha says "the film sounds like a good idea, and i think it should attract many viewers"
Jordan says "im not a fan of horror, but i think for the people that do like that genre it would be a good idea"
Nathan says "sounds too similar to Final Destination. Also, how would the killings occur?"
Rianne and Lorisha add "Good trailer idea but not a good idea for a film. It should also be an 18 certificate as 15 would not be suitable for this type of horror".
Jack concludes "Good suspense for a film, and it sounds like a good idea"
SWEAT
Ashley says "people can relate to this film alot more, especially people of our age as it is more realistic for us. Alot more realistic from the first idea"
Danielle says "it would be good to see how they achieve the goal"
Yama concludes "It will ve a good idea as we see how fanancial support can help people pursue their goals and how much people value opportunities".
Our group and i used this feedback to reconsider which film would be more suitable and concluded that with the limited resources and time that we have to make the teaser trailer, and for it only being a one minute teaser trailer, that we would continue with using our first idea, The List.
THE LIST
Ra'eesha says "the film sounds like a good idea, and i think it should attract many viewers"
Jordan says "im not a fan of horror, but i think for the people that do like that genre it would be a good idea"
Nathan says "sounds too similar to Final Destination. Also, how would the killings occur?"
Rianne and Lorisha add "Good trailer idea but not a good idea for a film. It should also be an 18 certificate as 15 would not be suitable for this type of horror".
Jack concludes "Good suspense for a film, and it sounds like a good idea"
SWEAT
Ashley says "people can relate to this film alot more, especially people of our age as it is more realistic for us. Alot more realistic from the first idea"
Danielle says "it would be good to see how they achieve the goal"
Yama concludes "It will ve a good idea as we see how fanancial support can help people pursue their goals and how much people value opportunities".
Our group and i used this feedback to reconsider which film would be more suitable and concluded that with the limited resources and time that we have to make the teaser trailer, and for it only being a one minute teaser trailer, that we would continue with using our first idea, The List.
Our groups 2 film ideas.
Film 1.
Title: The List.
Genre: Psychological horror.
Certificate: 15.
Target audience: Teenagers and young adults.
Demographic audience: Skilled manual workers to the unemployed; builders, plumbers, students and casual workers etc.
Psychogrpahic audience: "Explorers and strugglers".
Unique selling point: The main character is a girl. Usually, we would expect the viscious character or villain to be a male.
Enigma: By not showing the main characters face, we ask ourselves who she is, what is her purpose and reason for existence.
Similar narrative: The Knowing. Carrie.
Narrative of film: A teenage girl is being bullied consistantly for being an individual; she lacks social skills in order to do well in school, believing that making friends would be a interruption and a threat to her life. However, the bullying gets worse and decides to release the stress by writing her problems out on paper. She soon discovers a supernatural power of controlling and moving objects around her (telekinesis). She gets obssessed with this power through practice and then begins to write a list of names she wants revenge on. One by one, mysterious disasters happen to each individual but makes the mistake of wishing death on her own mother; her only friend. This leads her to want rid of the power and makes her very ill. At thsi time, she is still writing down her problems. One day, one of the bullies discovers her power. Telekinesis is announced and suddenly everyone is amazed by her and wants to be friends. Sally Jane discovers the truth and it sends her to an early grave - she commtis suicide.
Teaser trailer idea:
Long shot, walking through bright empty school corridoors with an irritating scratching sound through out the shot. Although many cuts through it, the whole shot will last between 10 and 2o seconds.
The next shots will be focussing on the girl in a dark room, scratching names into a class room. Shots will be taken from various positions, showing the action from different directions.
The last shot will be an extreme close up of the title (scrathed into the table) with the certificate and the company name. This will be presented along with a loud bang, silencing the previous sound effects and ending the trailer.
Feedback:
George - "I liked your idea of the way your title will be repsented at the end of the trailer".
Mr Marcus - he edited our idea of just having the scratching sound effect in the room where it was happening. He believed it would work as a continuous irritating sound throughout the trailer, only quiter.
Joy - "I like the narrative, the idea of the child being bullied and discovering supernatural powers, it works with a typical horror, you can recgonise the genre straight away".
Film 2.
Title: Sweat.
Genre: Drama.
Certificate: 12A
Target audience: Young adults.
Demographic audience: Higher and middle management such as bankers, lawyers, doctors, professionals, teachers and creative people in the media etc.
Psychodynamic audience: "Aspirers and suceeders".
Unique selling point: The dancers are male.
Enigma: Which out of the two men will succeed and achieve their goal.
Similar narrative: The persuit of happiness. Save the last dance.
Narrative:
Title: The List.
Genre: Psychological horror.
Certificate: 15.
Target audience: Teenagers and young adults.
Demographic audience: Skilled manual workers to the unemployed; builders, plumbers, students and casual workers etc.
Psychogrpahic audience: "Explorers and strugglers".
Unique selling point: The main character is a girl. Usually, we would expect the viscious character or villain to be a male.
Enigma: By not showing the main characters face, we ask ourselves who she is, what is her purpose and reason for existence.
Similar narrative: The Knowing. Carrie.
Narrative of film: A teenage girl is being bullied consistantly for being an individual; she lacks social skills in order to do well in school, believing that making friends would be a interruption and a threat to her life. However, the bullying gets worse and decides to release the stress by writing her problems out on paper. She soon discovers a supernatural power of controlling and moving objects around her (telekinesis). She gets obssessed with this power through practice and then begins to write a list of names she wants revenge on. One by one, mysterious disasters happen to each individual but makes the mistake of wishing death on her own mother; her only friend. This leads her to want rid of the power and makes her very ill. At thsi time, she is still writing down her problems. One day, one of the bullies discovers her power. Telekinesis is announced and suddenly everyone is amazed by her and wants to be friends. Sally Jane discovers the truth and it sends her to an early grave - she commtis suicide.
Teaser trailer idea:
Long shot, walking through bright empty school corridoors with an irritating scratching sound through out the shot. Although many cuts through it, the whole shot will last between 10 and 2o seconds.
The next shots will be focussing on the girl in a dark room, scratching names into a class room. Shots will be taken from various positions, showing the action from different directions.
The last shot will be an extreme close up of the title (scrathed into the table) with the certificate and the company name. This will be presented along with a loud bang, silencing the previous sound effects and ending the trailer.
Feedback:
George - "I liked your idea of the way your title will be repsented at the end of the trailer".
Mr Marcus - he edited our idea of just having the scratching sound effect in the room where it was happening. He believed it would work as a continuous irritating sound throughout the trailer, only quiter.
Joy - "I like the narrative, the idea of the child being bullied and discovering supernatural powers, it works with a typical horror, you can recgonise the genre straight away".
Film 2.
Title: Sweat.
Genre: Drama.
Certificate: 12A
Target audience: Young adults.
Demographic audience: Higher and middle management such as bankers, lawyers, doctors, professionals, teachers and creative people in the media etc.
Psychodynamic audience: "Aspirers and suceeders".
Unique selling point: The dancers are male.
Enigma: Which out of the two men will succeed and achieve their goal.
Similar narrative: The persuit of happiness. Save the last dance.
Narrative:
RESEARCH into teaser trailers.
Throughout this project, I have been working with Jay Coleman, Nazmeen Begum and Christopher Ogori.
To develop our understanding on teaser trailers and learn about the conventions, we watched a variety on www.youtube.com and www.imdb.com. We watched Toy Story 3, Superman, The Dark Knight and 20012.
From this, we discovered that most teaser trailers are significantly shorter than your regular trailer; they usually create an enigma and suspense, allowing the audience to raise questions about the film and be eager to keep an eye out for the trailer and then the film. We noticed that different genres determine how the teaser trailer is presented and what it consists of. For example; Toy Story 3 lacked showing of the narrative and storyline (possibly due to the film not have been completed yet) and just introduced characters that automatically made the audience realise what the film was because they could relate it to the previous Toy Story's although they may not all appear in the movie to come. However, the teaser trailer for 2012 based on just the setting and soudtrack to create suspense and get a feel of what the atmosphere is to be like in the full feature. Both teaser trailers created an enigma through lack of narrative and storyline.
To develop our understanding on teaser trailers and learn about the conventions, we watched a variety on www.youtube.com and www.imdb.com. We watched Toy Story 3, Superman, The Dark Knight and 20012.
From this, we discovered that most teaser trailers are significantly shorter than your regular trailer; they usually create an enigma and suspense, allowing the audience to raise questions about the film and be eager to keep an eye out for the trailer and then the film. We noticed that different genres determine how the teaser trailer is presented and what it consists of. For example; Toy Story 3 lacked showing of the narrative and storyline (possibly due to the film not have been completed yet) and just introduced characters that automatically made the audience realise what the film was because they could relate it to the previous Toy Story's although they may not all appear in the movie to come. However, the teaser trailer for 2012 based on just the setting and soudtrack to create suspense and get a feel of what the atmosphere is to be like in the full feature. Both teaser trailers created an enigma through lack of narrative and storyline.
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