First practice of making example posters and Poster Research

To create the posters for our teaser trailer we have used the software Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrate. We have been practising making tester posters using this software ready for when we want to make our real poster for our teaser trailer. I have used an image I have taken that will be easy to edit and manipulate because it was on a simple background.

Poster Research

Props Mood Board and Props we will/may use and Progress Diary

As our killer is supposed to look threatening to his victims he will need weapons and props. We have looked at different films to see what props are used in them, mainly the killers weapons. We would like to include loads of different weapons which hints to the audience that the victims will all die in a very different ways instead of all getting stabbed. In the film Scream he uses the classic butcher knives to kill his victims, this is a typical weapon used in horror films and are commonly used. List of weapons: -Knives -Ropes - Electrocution (e.g. Electricals being used in water) - Suprising weapons such as a pen?

Props we will use:

We will be using certain props in our teaser trailer to make it more realistic:

• Fake Blood


• Blankets and pillows for Matty when he plays the younger version of Lewis


• The Candle


• Knives for weapons


• Photos of the victims on the wall

Progress Diary

We think we will be ready to film towards the end of this week, we will be filming the parts Matty are in on the Thursday, on the Friday and Saturday we will try to film the rest of the fast paced shots.

Audience Profiles and Rating

We have been thinking about the audience for our teaser trailer. We have looked at the similar genres and story lines and what rating they were given.

The first film we looked at was The Strangers, the rating for this film was 15.

Another film which is of a similar genre is Orphan, about a 9 year old girl who isnt as innocent as she looks. This film also had a rating of 15.

From looking at the percentage of people who went to see the Strangers we have found that people from the age of 15-24 went to see the Strangers more than people of any other age and mainly women went to see this film. Whereas, with Orphan there was a high range of ages that went to see this film, mainly from the age of 15-24 but also 45+ it was quite popular. A difference between the two films is they said more men would go, closely followed by women. This has been compared to The Omen which seemed to be a film for both men and women as it was roughly 50% for men and 50% for women. This shows that our type of film which has some similarites between these two films could be 50-50 and people from the age of 15-24.

Our Idea Rating and Audience

We have decided that there will be slightly more women who will watch our teaser.

60%- Women

40%- Men

We have also predicted that the age range would be more 15-24 year olds.

4-6: 0%

7-11: 0%

12-14: 0%

15-24: 80%

25-34: 5%

35- 44: 5%

45+ : 10%

We have also given our film a rating of 15.

Orphan teaser trailer and Poster

I am looking at the film Orphan because this is a horror and also is a psychological one.

Genre: From the trailer you can see that the film is a psychological horror that is different because the audience have no idea what is wrong with this girl. There is also an element of thriller because there are many jumpy scenes. This is quite similar to the genre we would like to use for our own teaser trailer.

Narrative: It shows a normal family living everyday life but have recently lost there baby, the family decide that they would like to adopt instead of try for another baby, they choose to adopt an older child and when they get to the adoption place they find a girl who is very different from the rest of the girls there, she is old fashioned and very mature for her age. They take her home to meet the family and then they start to find out there is something wrong with this girl as she starts doing odd things and trying to scare the children, we see her setting fire to a treehouse with the boy in it and pushing a girl of the playground slide and pushing a young girl in front of the car, there is obviously a big secret she is hiding but this is not clear to the audience at all in the trailer, the narrative of the trailer is then left on a cliffhanger.

This teaser poster has a very interesting tag line, there's something wrong with esther, this is very interesting combined with the image, which is the girl looking emotionless with light coming from above her shadowing certain parts of her face, we can see from this picture she is very old fashioned. All this combined witht he title Orphan is very creepy, the text is typical for the horror genre, with the scratchy lines. This poster is very simple but very effective in a way that this character has alot of mystery behind her. The text is also similar to the Uninvited title text which shows that they are quite similar as they are from the same sub genre psychogical horror.

The Uninvited Teaser Trailer and Poster

I have decided to look at the Uninvited which is a psychological horror which plays with the audiences minds. I will be looking at the components of the trailer for this film as I could not find a teaser and look at how the components are effective.

Genre: The genre from this trailer is very clear that it is a horror. In the category of horror it would come under psychological horror as it messes with the audiences mind, there is also a sense of thriller within the genre because there are moments which scare the audience and make them jump. Using shots that make the audience jump is very effective for horror genre as it keeps the audience on the edge of there seats.

Narrative: The narrative of the trailer shows the audience the main character a girl who comes home after being away as her mother died in a fire, when she comes back she finds out that her dad has a new girlfriend who she soon becomes suspicious about, she thinks that the new girlfriend is a murderer. The trailer shows quite quick shots that show scary scenes, this trailer uses alot of the silent pauses then the music builds up again. This keeps the audience interested as there is lots of suspense used.

This is the poster for the film The Uninvited, it is very ambiguous as it hides the characters identity, it is very dark and spooky which shows the genre. The text used is also very creepy like in horror movies when people write in blood and the size of the letters vary. This poster is very effective for the horror genre and looks interesting the mystery behind the character makes the audience want to know more. With the title the uninvited and a girl in the shadows looking in through a window makes the audience think why is she looking through the window like that, why is her identity hidden and why or who is uninvited.

Shot Description Slideshow

Shots with description

View more presentations from amylewissimon1.

Progress Diary- Time Management

We have changed our idea to one we feel is similar to the ones we have researched and would be more like a psychological horror, it also uses quick shots which we believe is more effective. We have been looking at new location ideas and a range of shots we would like to add. We will use our animatic as a guideline for when we film and add new shots in as we go. We are ready to film this weekend.

New Location Ideas

As our new idea for our teaser uses lots of locations we have to take a range of pictures of possible locations. We will be filming some shots inside and some shots outside. Inside shots will be in my house and Lewis' house, these will mostly be in the dark like the killer has turned the power off. The outside shots will either be down roads and streets, possibly a train station and possibly in the woods. Here are some pictures from locations we will use. The first image is of where the little boy sleeps, he doesnt have much space and the only light he has is candle light.

Shot List

This is a rough idea of the shots we would like to include.

• Black Screen
• Dips to white and you see a door slowly opening revealing a dark room
• The door gets wider and you see a little boy sitting in the corner looking sad
• A wall in the same room shows pictures on a wall with the eyes of the faces of the people cut out and crosses on there faces. The boy disappears.
• The boy appears again as you see him sitting in the corner.
• We then see the pictures on the wall flash up again
• It goes back to the boy, he slowly turns to look at the camera as it cuts to black.
• We then see a flash of a long dark corridor
• We then see one of the victims running
• It then focuses on a weapon eg. A knife
• We see hands covered in blood
• A body laying on the floor in a dark room.
• Sooming turning round quickly looking scared
• More people running
• A sign saying something like "Your Dead".
• A flash of the little boy in the corner of the room
• Someone standing we can see the legs they are looking out to room, a knife in there hand covered in blood.
• More victims running
• A dog with a mouth covered in blood
• Someone being dragged
• Someone cowering in a room shouting go away.
• More blood on peoples clothes screaming
• Another victim running.
• A body wrapped in a blanket
• A hand opening a door
• Someone closing a mirror with the killer behind them
• More running
• The little boy standing looking down at the floor
• The attacker putting his hand over the victims mouth and her gasping
• Black Screen

Slideshow of shots for teaser trailer

View more presentations from amylewissimon1.

Animatic of our shots.

This is an Animatic of the shots we have created.

Titles/Names for our New Idea

These are some of the example of titles and names we have come up with for our Teaser.

• The List


• The Unknown


• Death List


• Punished


• Neglected


• Outcast


• Vengeance


• Revenge


• Forgotten

So far we like Vengeance and Forgotten for the title of our teaser.

Sound Track for our Teaser Research

We have been thinking about what music and sound effects to use for our teaser trailer. We like music that is fast paced and will create a sense of suspence on the audience. The music will need to match the quick shots we will have. There are certain websites where we can save non copyright music for our teaser trailer such as freeplaymusic.com The Strangers Music: We liked the end of the teaser trailer where the music got more tense, we thought this was very effective.

We used YouTube to search music to get inspiration for what music to use.

This is the music we have chosen and would like to use for our teaser trailer.

Costume Ideas, Mattys character and Props

These are our costume ideas for our teaser:

Male Characters

This is Lewis' costume, he will wear dark clothes. The clothes will look like he has owned them for ages as he is on his own.

Female Characters
The female characters will have there casual normal clothes on. We might have to use old clothes in case the fake blood stains.

Matty's Character

Matty's character is the young boy who is alone in his room, he looks sad and neglected. We would like the audience to sympathise or be curious of his character, we would like them to vaguely see his face but have it mostly covered in shadow which adds mystery to his character.

Matty's costume will be dark, when we see his character he will be sitting in a dark corner so it will look like he is hiding in the shadows.

Actor Profiles

We have been looking at characters from films and how they are similar to our own characters.

The first character we looked at is the killer, our killer is similar to many characters in horror films because his face is never revealed, some shots you may get a glimpse of his face but not for long enough that you can see who he is.

I have included these two images, one is from our teaser trailer of our killer and one is of one of the killers in The Strangers. I chose these two images because it shows different ways of hiding the killers identity. I have hidden the killers identity by only looking at certain areas of him, for example his legs or his shadow, whereas in The Strangers they use masks to hide characters identity.

I am now looking at some of the victims in our teaser trailer and some victims from real films.

New Character Profiles

This is a list of the characters involved in our Teaser Trailer:

• The teenage boy getting revenge. (Played by Lewis)
• The boy when he was younger (Played by Lewis' little brother Matty)
• The victims (Played by Amy, Chris, Lauren, Jess and David)

Lewis:

Lewis is playing the main character who is getting revenge on the people in his life. In our teaser we hope that Lewis' characters face will not be revealed as much to add mystery to his character.

Matty:
Matty is playing the teenage boy when he was a child. We will see his character looking sad neglected. Matty is Lewis' little brother so they look similar, this will make our teaser more authentic as they are supposed to be the older and younger versions of each other.

Amy:

Another character will be Amy, she will play one of the victims of the boy. Amy's character was meant to be one of Lewis' childhood friends but they ignored him and made him feel like an outcast.
Chris:

Chris is another one of the victims in the teaser, he is also supposed to have been one of Lewis' characters childhood "friends".

Lauren:
Lauren will be another victim of Lewis' character, Lauren's character is the sister of Amy's.

Jess:

Jess will play another one of the victims, she was in the childhood group too.

David:

David will also play a victim, he was meant to be part of the childhood group.

Final Idea Plot

A teenage boy who was neglected as a child by his friends and family wants revenge on the people who made his life lonely, he starts attacking his victims one by one.

Teaser Trailer Plot- It will start with a black screen, the first shot you see is of a door, slowly opening reavealing a dark room. As the door opens wider the audience can see a small boy sitting in the corner of the room looking lonely and upset, this is the neglected child of our story. After you see the child a new scene flashes very quickly of the same room but the child is gone and on the wall pictures of peoples faces with there eyes cut out and crosses on there faces with some blood on them. After you see a quick glimpse of this image the other scene comes back and shows the boy sitting in the corner of the room. As the door is open fully the boy slowly looks towards the camera. The shot then changes to the quick ones where you see the boys victims being attacked. Some of these scenes may incude images of weapons such as knives and people running. The last shot you see will be of the teenage boy grabbing one of his victims and putting his hand over her mouth. It will then turn to a black screen as the title appears.

Our teaser trailer idea final

View more presentations from amylewissimon1.

Film Treatment

fggg

Font Experiments

I have been experimenting with a range of fonts using a possible title idea for our teaser trailer.
We have been looking for fonts that look like they would appear in horror products.

Idea Change

We have been thinking about changing our idea, We will still use the same genre which is Horror. We decided to change our idea because we were thinking that our teaser trailer would be more like an opening 2 minutes to a film like we did last year. Our new idea will consist of more shots like typical teaser trailers, we like the idea of showing quick shots of things that could be part of the film. Shot List Ideas-

• People running


• Titles


• Focusing and close ups of objects


• Titles


• Somone grabbing someones and putting hand over mouth


• Lots of running


• Showing important things


• People getting attacked.


• Close up of faces with people behind


• People covered in blood