Genre/Narrative

The film "Deranged" was conformative to other Horror/Thriller films of the 15 classification in some ways but diverted from them in others such as the plot.This was in order to make our trailer unique and standout from others in that genre, as that is what catches the audience's attention, something that is different and intriguing whilst still fitting in well with the horror genre.
The narrative of the trailer is the utmost important component of the trailer as it is what sells it to the audience and ultimately provokes them to go and see it in the cinema or buy it on DVD. The narrative can be presented in many different ways throughout the trailer, through camerawork, framing of shots,lighting,dialogue and positioning. In the trailer for deranged the camerawork presents the narrative adequately, the weather in the shots was captured to show darkness and dreariness and so it looked more downcast to the audience signifying a dark twist as at first the shots were fairly bright but throughout the shots it has always been cloudy representing that that ghostly figure has always been haunting them and has been there from the beginning. but it turns significantly darker towards the end of the trailer showing things have got the worst that they can possibly get. The speed increases inducing panic for the audience which is what the audience is meant to feel whilst watching something from the horror genre. I think the audience feel both sympathy and resentment for the boy because of the way that he is portrayed, he is portrayed as being possessed and victimised by these evil forces but also as a predator towards the end of the trailer when the audience realises that he is the reason for the murder of his parents. There are high angle shots of the bodies throughout the trailer making it seem as though the murderer has lots of power, the camera also flashes over these bodies without a lot of delay and their faces aren't clear and so making them seem insignificant and that these aren't the only bodies that have been found. They repeatedly flash on the screen throughout the trailer showing that there are high numbers of murders and that this is the result of the boy changing and being possessed.
The mise en scene also gives a lot away about the narrative and genre as does the lighting. In the beginning the boy is wearing everyday clothes that a normal boy his age would wear but toward the end of the trailer you can see that his clothing becomes much darker as in the shot where he is walking around in the dark he his wearing a dark hoodie so that his face isn't showing adding to the sense of mystery. Obviously the lighting changes as this is stereotypical of a horror film that it becomes dark and intense. But in our trailer we challenge these conventions as normally all the shots towards the end of a horror trailer are dark whereas in ours there is a few lighter shots still portraying the young boy's vulnerability like when he is in the forest and is turning round, which i think still makes him look quite innocent,and still showing that it is aimed at a audience of a lower age.

There is a theory that every narrative follows a 3 way structure in the beginning there is a balance, an equilibrium then there is something that disrupts the balance resulting in disequilibrium and then there this gets sorted out so that it then becomes balanced again to a certain extent. In deranged there is this clear narrative as the starting equilibrium is when Josh is in a normal family and just carrying out normal activities that a boy his age would do, and this is shown by the montage of shots at the beginning of the trailer showing him having dinner and him watching TV with his family in a normal family setting. The disequilibrium is when his parents are killed and he gets possessed this takes up most of the trailer portraying this story, the shots of the bodies are shown to show that the murders have taken place and we also show blood which is also a convention of the horror genre. Also the boy being possessed is quite a common plot for many horror's examples being insidious and paranormal activity so again the genre is really clear. We also show the phone call having dialogue expressing that hes changed and something has happened to him. But in the trailer we can't show the balanced equilibrium again, we have to leave that to the audiences imagination so that they have that sense of mystery that leaves them guessing so much that they have to see it to find out what happens. The balanced equilibrium of the narrative, and ultimately the ending, would be that the audience would find out the reason why hes changed and what actually happened to his parents and if he ever escapes this evil ghost figure.
Often narratives often include the same themes of characters as well as usually there is always a victim and always a villain and sometimes in a horror the police in deranged there is a villain and a victim but they are the same person making the film different, there are police detectives to add to the sense of mystery as well.In fact there are almost 2 villains as the possessor is a villain as well, so some could say it is actually the possessor that is the villain as they are inside the boy and controlling him.

Script

In the first stages of our planning we produced a script for some of the scenes, below is an example, when it actually came to filming we changed some of the dialogue so that it would fit beeter with the shots and in the end trailer some dialogue was cut out. To be fair there wasn't a huge amount of dialogue in the trailer this is because of a few reasons, one we thought we would be able to create a plot without dialogue and just voice overs and because we were concentrating on how the shots looked rather than how the narrative will flow, we only picked up on this later in the process of creating the trailer and had to shoot extra footage with dialogue to make it extra clear what the narrative was and who the boy was and what he was doing and how he had changed aswell. The script gave us an idea of how the shots were going to play out and the theme of the dialogue but i think we ended up editing the actual words that were spoken quite a lot. Therefore the script did guide us but we ended up changing it. But atleast we had a plan for what we were going to say which was useful when it came to shooting.

Call sheets

Here are the call sheets that were used towards the beginning of the planning stages again i dont't think we uploaded many then. These were used to previously warn actors the time and location that we were shooting, this is so that they  would know and everything would be organised. Although it was Manny's family who were playing some of the characters it is still important to let them know what is happening so that they can plan ahead and let us know if anything conflicts with the times that we had set. It also lets them know what costumes they are going to be wearing so that they turn up in the right kind of clothing to create verisimilitude in the trailer. Also it lets them know what the shot consists of so that they can practice how they are going to act or they can practice any dialogue that we want them to say in advance.This part went smoothly and the initial shooting times were well kept to. This shows that this type of organisation was fairly effective in the planning process.

Log sheets

Here are the log sheets that we made before we started editing the footage to record what shots we had and then decided which ones we wanted to use. We hadn't uploaded them when we were planning and so are uploading them now, clearly it would have been better to upload them then but we can't change that so here they are. They helped with organisation during the editing process. When we were shooting the footage we could write down ideas for when it came to editing so that we would remember them and also we could write down the content so that it would take less time in the editing process to find which shot that we wanted to use. If we could go back i think we could have done with using them a bit more so that we could have kept more organised and would have planned our time well in advance so that we could meet the editing deadlines more sharply than we did. As you can see this is only for one day and because we were rushed towards the end of the project we skipped making the log sheets due to the time constraints therefore in the end only one log sheet was produced.

Deranged Commentary

Deranged Commentary a video by Bethisgreat on Flickr.

Manny and Beth Presentation

Bethisgreat's photostream on Flickr.

Evalutation: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary products

I think the Trailer and the print products together are fairly effective in grabbing the audience’s attention, as the plot is quite different and having the recognizable image of a child as the staple image on each of our print products looks different to the normal poster where normally the film is based on adults or is of a higher certificate. But a child is more intriguing than other characters, although it seems wrong to include a child it means that the film will be more talked about and this would raise awareness of the film, there would be more hype surrounding the film, it isn’t just a complete replication of another horror film. Other films that have featured children have been quite successful, so people are getting desensitized to the fact that children getting possessed is wrong. Films that have been successful include the exorcist and insidious which both feature children as main characters. 
The ancillary texts are also as effective as the main trailer as they all link together by having the same text of the title deranged throughout the products; also we have used the same colour scheme for both of the print products as well as the titles featured in the trailer. Also the Tag line for the film is featured in all of the products, but I think the font is different in the trailer, to in the magazine and the poster, as we only came up with the font for the print products after we had made the titles for the film trailer, therefore we didn’t change the font in the trailer.