3. Conventions I have used in my trailer: Dark lighting and setting:- When filming the trailer we wanted to create a particular atmosphere that was creepy and tense. Therefore, when filming the bedroom scene me made sure that the lights were off, and used the ‘night mode’ on the camera when filming; this was effective in creating the dark atmosphere as well as enable the audience to clearly see the actions taking place. We also choose to film our exterior scene during the evening as it would be dark, reinforcing the horror conventions in the teaser trailer. Whilst filming using the ‘night-mode’ we came across some issues, for example we had to make sure that the camera was facing at the right angle when filming as the footage was not always visible. Props and costumes:- One of the main props that we used was a knife, which we covered in ketchup as we wanted it to seem like blood stains, the knife and the blood is part of the horror convention as the knife and blood highlights danger, death and distress. For the costume, the character is wearing a ripped white shirt with red marks that is suppose to represent blood stains. By her wearing this particular piece of clothing this highlight the juxtaposition as the connation of ‘white’ is peace whilst ‘red’ is rage ; also through the use of the colour red we were ensuring that we were keeping with the colour scheme. By using the laptop this highlight to the audience that this is a modern teaser trailer, as well as making the, aware that the actions taking place is due to the mysterious e-mail received on the laptop. Increase of pace when tension occur:- To create tension and suspense we increased the pace of this following scene in our trailer, this is to indicate to the audience that something tragic is about to occur immediately grabbing there attention. Teaser trailer usually tend to be between 30 sec- 1:30 min, and our trailer is just at the minimum as it is 39 seconds. Characters -(Propp’s character theory)- Victims and villain:- The villain is played by Sandra, who can been seen in the following scene holding a set of keys which is to access the place where she captures the Victim. Also the character sends a the mysterious e-mail to the victim Sharmain which makes her panic and fearful for her life . The conventions that we used in my teaser trailer such as, props and costumes, shots, props and characters was influenced by the film ‘One missed call’, also due to the fact that the plot is cantered around a piece of technology which is mobile phone.
![Teaser Trailers Previous to making our teaser trailer we had to carry out research so we were aware of the different forms of trailers such as, teaser trailers and a theatrical trailers. We analysed horror theatrical trailers such as, ‘X-men’, ‘Insidious’ and ‘One missed call’ and teaser trailers ‘Saw VI’ such as, ‘Rec’ and ‘Insidious’. This enabled us to establish the difference between the two trailers, as well as gain an understanding into horror conventions. We also researched ‘X-men’ the theatrical trailer, as this was a different genre it gave extra knowledge into other conventions. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],When filming our teaser trailer we took the majority of these conventions into consideration and used it when filming, but we did not necessarily make the Todorov theory obvious in the trailer, as we believe it was not really significant in making an effective horror teaser trailer.](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)