Evaluation 2

2. Where would an audience consume your film trailer?

An audience would consume our trailer in different environments. These would include in a cinema before a film starts. They would also hopefully see it at home on TV during commercial time. The trailer would also be put online onto the official website and also onto YouTube for anyone who wishes to re-watch it.

Evaluation 1

Evaluation

1. How does your trailer compare with real media output?
•Conventional and unconventional aspects of your film trailer
•Compare your trailer to examples of real trailers
•Genre of your film

- To make sure we were following conventions of other psychological thrillers, we watched the trailers of films we felt were similar to our products. We found that in most trailers there was an iconic image or symbol, which helped us decide to include some in our trailer. For example, in the ‘Saw’ films, the iconic image of the puppet was a reoccurring image throughout the films. Our trailer had 2 images we felt were important, which was the bat as the murder weapon, and the ring to frame the mother. We also found psychological thrillers usually included some sort of mental illness, which we had already included in our plot.

Psychological thriller trailer 'Hide And Seek'

Script Review

Changes made to original script
After reading through the script several times as a group, we decided to make the plot slightly less complicated in able to create a trailer that would be effective and challenging without making it too confusing.

We thought a good idea would be to tell most of the narrative through video diaries made by Harry. This way, we could get his inner thoughts and feelings and see the expression on his face as we were watching it.

This would also help the audience achieve a sense of trust with Harry and possibly put him out of the picture when it came to 'who was the murderer?' as we wanted to frame his mother.

We decided to get rid of the father character, because as we started to film, it would have been obvious 'who done it' as to whether or not there were two people at the scene (the parents) or one (Harry).

We elimitated the aspect of 'Grant' as the spirit of Harry's past life, as we thought this would be too difficult to try and portray through a trailer with the limited resources we had.

Focus Group Questionnaire

“Two Faced” Trailer Questionnaire

1. What genre do think this film is?

Horror

Thriller

Comedy

Psychological

Other__________________________________

2. What age range do you think the trailer is aimed at?

10-15

15-25

25-40

3. Name any 3 shots from the trailer that stick out to you

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4. Based on the trailer, would you want to go and see the film?

Yes

No

Don’t Know

5. Who do you think is committing the murders?

The Mother

A Supernatural Being

Harry

A character not shown in the trailer

6. Do you feel the music matches the mood of the trailer?

Yes

No

Don’t know

7. Could you briefly outline the plot of this film?

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THANK YOU!

"Saw" Film Poster Analysis

This poster is from the film 'Saw'

Most commonly known for its connotations with torture and pain, I think this poster fits in well.

The simple image creates a huge, cringing impact on the viewer. This makes them maybe feel some pain just looking at it (I definately can feel a toothache coming on...)

The image is a good representation of the film, as the same experiences are shared throughout all seven grousome editions. Any first time viewer with expectations from this poster would not have any disappointment.

Aside from the teeth, there is a very subtle reference to an actual saw at the top of the poster. This is to reiterate the name of the film, which has been made to look like part of the main image.

The same font for the film title is used in every film, so any returning Saw viewers would see this as an iconic image of the film.

The colour scheme is also very important to the poster. This is because every Saw film poster is essentially the same, with a different image to accompany it. Here are some examples

"Orphan" Film Poster Analysis

This film poster is for the film 'Orphan'

First glances at this poster made me feel quite uneasy, which I suppose was the desired effect.

They have broken the stereotype of not seeing the face of the 'bad guy' (or girl) on the poster. Somehow, I think this has worked out very well.

A common image used to creep people out is the Little Girl.

This little girl has a piercing stare which looks straight at you. I think this is why I felt uneasy at first.

We assume this girl is the main character, and probably the villan within the plot. The name 'Orphan' fits well with this main image, as the girl appears to be alone. Another common 'little girl' feature is the use of 'old fashioned' appearance. For example, a frock with collars and ribbons around her pigtails. This image is used alot to give the idea of strange goings on. This trait was most commonly shown in the original 'Nightmare on Elm Street' films, where young girls dressed similarly to this one would play hopscotch just before Freddy appeared.

The font of the title also works well, as they have purposely made it look like the handwriting of a small child.

There are an unusual 2 taglines on this poster.

'THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH ESTHER'

and

'CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET?'

This creates a code of enigma for the film, 'what IS wrong with Esther?'

The billing block is also kept to a minimum as not to distract you from the eyes of the girl.