Monday, 8 November 2010
Poster Research
Here I have shown a range of teaser posters for the horror genre, for one of our ancillary tasks we have to create a teaser poster for our teaser trailer.
Most of the teaser posters are very simple, with a clear image and text that shows the horror genre, the images are very central and mainly of people with blood on them or characters that are relevant to the story. The images are quite disturbing, for example for the film called the Eye, there is a picture of an eye wide open with a hand coming out of it, these sort of images make your skin crawl and very clearly show the genre.
Most of the teaser posters are very simple, with a clear image and text that shows the horror genre, the images are very central and mainly of people with blood on them or characters that are relevant to the story. The images are quite disturbing, for example for the film called the Eye, there is a picture of an eye wide open with a hand coming out of it, these sort of images make your skin crawl and very clearly show the genre. Quarantine Teaser Trailer
Quarantine is more of a gore horror, because there are endless amounts of blood and people who have caught some disease, these types of films where people become infected are quite common, the only difference between these films is the way they become infected.
I have chosen to look at this teaser because I like the use of the handheld camera, and we see it all as if we were there looking at what is happening, this is scary because it involves the audience more and they see eveything even closer as the scary things happen right infront of the audience faces. I also like the use of the night vision in this teaser, it is very effective and spooky as there is a sense of unknown, what is in the dark room behind the people and keeps the audience on the edge of there seats as they do not know whether something is going to jump out of th darkness. I think the way this teaser ends with the girl being dragged into the darkness os very effective.
Disturbia Trailer
I have included the Disturbia Trailer as I could not find a teaser trailer.
This trailer shows the genre, by the use of blood, thrill and weapons shown.
This is typical of a horror because it has the neighbour is the killer but no one believes the boy/girl that have got into trouble. I have chosen to add this trailer to my research because i wanted to include a range of different types of horror films. Aswell as a horror this trailer hints that it has a bit of a romance, boy meets girl type story, many horrors have this hint of romance where one minute you think your watching a rom com but then someone gets murdered, these type of horrors have more of a female audience because of the storyline.
Blair Witch Project Teaser Trailer
This teaser trailer is different from other teaser trailers as it shows reviews from people saying things like "scarier than the Exorcist". These quotes are not normally used in teaser trailers but normally are used in trailers. Which would make this teaser trailer in between being a teaser and a trailer. It is the short enough length to be a teaser.
This teaser trailer is very simple and is quite similar to the Buried teaser trailer. For quite along time of the teaser there is a black screen and then some short footage at the end, a difference would be that at the beginning there is text that gives an idea of what the film will be about, which normally teasers are not meant to show.
The Strangers- Teaser Trailer
This is the Strangers teaser trailer, I have decided to analyse this teaser because it is a good example of a psychological horror. It includes the stereotypical horror factor of a couple alone in a house in the middle of nowhere, it is night and they are being targeted by a group of people who enjoy killing people. This film has a great effect on the audience as it says it is based/inspired on true events which makes the story feel even more realistic.
This is very similar to the type of horror we would like to create.
Friday, 5 November 2010
Chosen Genre
The genre we have chosen for our Teaser Trailer is Horror. We are mainly focusing on a component to horror films which is commanly used, this area is psychological horror.
Definition of psychological horror:
Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that relies on character fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound effects, relevant music and emotional instability to build tension and further the plot.
Psychological horror uses real characters such as people killing people, not monsters or aliens killing the people in the story. These are normally very realistic. Location within the genre is normally very important in creating realsim for example a house in the middle of nowhere.
Films that use this genre are:
The Strangers
The Uninvited
Scream
Wolf Creek
The Others
Disturbia
Films that use this genre but also include gore which is not highly used in these films are:
Wrong Turn
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Hills have Eyes
House of Wax
Quarantine
Definition of psychological horror:
Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that relies on character fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound effects, relevant music and emotional instability to build tension and further the plot.
Psychological horror uses real characters such as people killing people, not monsters or aliens killing the people in the story. These are normally very realistic. Location within the genre is normally very important in creating realsim for example a house in the middle of nowhere.
Films that use this genre are:
The Strangers
The Uninvited
Scream
Wolf Creek
The Others
Disturbia
Films that use this genre but also include gore which is not highly used in these films are:
Wrong Turn
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Hills have Eyes
House of Wax
Quarantine
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Time Management- Progress Diary
To find a starting point for our teaser trailer we have looked at a range of different genres and written about the different elements, what needs to be included and what works well. So far we have been wanting to do a horror genre teaser trailer.
Idea's for Teaser Trailer
My group which is Lewis and I have been thinking about different ideas for our Teaser Trailer project this year.
For our first idea we were thinking about doing a teaser for last years project we did. This would be quite a good idea as we know the story for that film.
Me and Lewis have also got ideas that we would both like to do for the project, we may combine these ideas to create a whole new idea or decide on one of the ideas on its on.
For my idea I was thinking about doing a thriller/mystery genre. I wanted to do a teaser trailer which was similar to the Buried teaser and the Disney PIXAR Up teaser. My first idea was a young girl was running through the woods at night time, she is scared and its dark. She reaches a hill and it starts raining she is covered in mud and is soaking wet, she is disoriented and lost and is scared of what is out in the woods. We wont be able to make this happen but will be lucky if it was raining with thunder and lightning (Or we could try create this using a light and sound effects) it flashes and you see her clearer but then she dissapears even more, as this will be quite dark at real night time we might have to film it when it is starting to get dark to give abit more light. After she is gone and the screen is black there is an ear piercing scream, we do not no what has happened to this girl, whether the footage is going to be in the film and not much of the plot is revealed. This makes it a similar teaser to Buried.
Lewis wanted to create a teaser which used action, he has looked at a James Bond teaser and at the begining not much happens and not much is revealed but it starts speeding up when the action happens. He has no basic idea at the moment of what he wants to do but this is a similar idea.
For our first idea we were thinking about doing a teaser for last years project we did. This would be quite a good idea as we know the story for that film.
Me and Lewis have also got ideas that we would both like to do for the project, we may combine these ideas to create a whole new idea or decide on one of the ideas on its on.
For my idea I was thinking about doing a thriller/mystery genre. I wanted to do a teaser trailer which was similar to the Buried teaser and the Disney PIXAR Up teaser. My first idea was a young girl was running through the woods at night time, she is scared and its dark. She reaches a hill and it starts raining she is covered in mud and is soaking wet, she is disoriented and lost and is scared of what is out in the woods. We wont be able to make this happen but will be lucky if it was raining with thunder and lightning (Or we could try create this using a light and sound effects) it flashes and you see her clearer but then she dissapears even more, as this will be quite dark at real night time we might have to film it when it is starting to get dark to give abit more light. After she is gone and the screen is black there is an ear piercing scream, we do not no what has happened to this girl, whether the footage is going to be in the film and not much of the plot is revealed. This makes it a similar teaser to Buried.
Lewis wanted to create a teaser which used action, he has looked at a James Bond teaser and at the begining not much happens and not much is revealed but it starts speeding up when the action happens. He has no basic idea at the moment of what he wants to do but this is a similar idea.
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