At first we explained why we wanted to do the genre we are doing which is horror. We did some audience research by asking people what genre of film they liked the best. the results are shown in the table and the genre that people liked the most was horror. Before doing the audience research we had already considered doing horror, the reasons for this being that we did a psychological thriller for our AS project and some parts of the camerawork and editing could be applied to a horror film. We decided that we would both be happy with making something that would fit into the horror genre.
We did our research on horror films first before we did the pitch so that we could have an idea of how a horror trailer is put together. I did a lot of research on horror films that are aimed at a younger audience, with a 12 or 15 classification, these trailers are make it very obvious that the film is of the horror genre.
When Manny and me started to come up with a plot i put forward what i had found in my research, in a lot of the trailers that i watched there was a child as the main character who normally got possessed and as a result of this started to do things that were out of the ordinary. We have now thought of having a plot along these lines. Our thoughts so far are that we are going to have Forrest, an empty room and a graveyard, the trailer will start off with a flashback to when the child was younger, and it shows the parents have died and he has been left without Any parents. The trailer then will probably fade to black with some text to link the flashback to the present which will follow after the flashback. Then after this the boy will be shown going to the graveyard and this is the place that an event will happen that changes him. The fade to blacks will come in quite quickly and randomly to make it look fast paced. These fade to blacks will have short lines of writing which will create a sense of what happens in the film and convey this to the audience. Then after he has been changed by an evil spirit he turns evil and deranged. Using a child in the film could pose quite a lot of problems as people may have issues with using a child for this sort of role in the film. The film is a film where you follow what is happening to the boy, and are not supposed to be totally scared of him.
The logo for our film is going to be the title, there are two titles which we have come up with but we have not decided which one we are going to use yet, the titles that we are debating are Abandoned and deranged. The design of the logo is going to be the title scratched out slightly. I have started trying out designs using Adobe photoshop and will upload them when i am finished them. The logo is going to have a black background as we have seen on other horror film logos that a lot of them do have colours such as black white and red.
For the magazine front cover, we have not come up with an image for it yet but we are going to go to the setting soon so we can take photos of it, also with the characters that we are using. On a lot of movie magazine front covers there is usually a large image of the character that the audience can recognise and know what movie the character is from.
Manny has designed the production logo and she will probably upload that to her blog.
The poster will be similar to the magazine cover by having a large image of the main character and a short tagline that will get people thinking about the movie. The poster will have some of the setting featured in it i think it would look good if the background was the empty room which features in the flashback of the boys life and the boys face in the foreground to make it look like the boy is staring at the audience, as that would frighten the audience.
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