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Warner Brothers and Lionsgate use dark colors like black, red, and blue in their horror film idents to convey the genre, with images of clouds and skies. Research showed that some companies customize their idents for horror, using blended dark colors, while others maintain a consistent sophisticated ident with a color theme. Based on this, the document plans to create one horror-themed ident and one original ident for teaser trailers, with each ident being 1-2 seconds long.
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The media product uses, develops, and challenges conventions of horror films in the following ways:
1) It uses typical horror character conventions - featuring innocent blonde girl, mysterious hooded boys, and costumes that highlight innocence and danger.
2) It develops conventions through its plot of adventurous teens exploring a creepy abandoned house and sound design that builds suspense and startles the audience.
3) It challenges conventions with its typography that flickers like candle light at the end, linking to the film's theme of summoning in an unconventional way.
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1) It features three main characters - two adventurous teenage boys and a young blonde girl - who fit conventions of typical horror protagonists.
2) Costumes and locations were chosen to create a sense of mystery, danger, and suspense, aligning with horror conventions.
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Evaluation task one
The document provides information about conventions used in teaser trailers, including:
- Teaser trailers are shorter (40 seconds to 1 minute) and outline the film's narrative theme, main characters, sound, titles/credits, and release date.
- Camera work includes a range of shots (close-ups, long shots, mediums shots) to showcase the genre within the short time frame.
- The purpose is to promote and sell the film to its target audience by showing what the film is about and its release date.
- Idents are typically 1-3 seconds and include still images with some movement and non-diegetic sound to represent the studio or film brand.
Research - Film Typographies & Production Company Logos
Horror film typography often uses red, white, or black colors and blocky, sharp fonts that reinforce the genre. The typography of films like Halloween and Child's Play look similar so audiences can identify the genre. The film posters created for this film project use the color scheme of the horror slasher genre and are influenced by well-known horror films so audiences understand the genre. Research was also done on film studio and production company logos to inspire designs for a new production company logo, which contains references linking it to this film project.
Evaluation 1 media
The document summarizes the research and creative process behind creating a title sequence for a horror film. It discusses conventions of the horror genre discovered through analyzing the title sequence of Dawn of the Dead, including settings, lighting, camera shots, costumes, and themes. Locations around the university were used to film scenes adhering to and challenging genre conventions. Editing software was used to professionally assemble scenes with sound, transitions, and a cliffhanger ending to engage viewers and tie into the larger film.
Film pitch
The document provides details on the plot of a proposed horror film including:
- The protagonist is a young boy whose strange behavior concerns his family after his father goes missing and is later found dead.
- An exorcism is performed on the boy by a local vicar who also ends up dead, leaving the boy's mother screaming for help.
- The document discusses plans for marketing the film including a mobile app that allows users to create their own horror content related to the film.
- Budget details note that resources for the initial teaser trailer will be limited but make use of free equipment, locations, actors and other assets.
Evaluation Q1
The document analyzes how the media product uses and challenges conventions of real horror films.
The trailer challenges some conventions, such as starting with a suicide scene rather than a positive scene. It also uses longer shots of the antagonist than is typical.
The poster conforms to color scheme conventions but challenges conventions around color use. It also develops conventions around the cover line.
The magazine cover conforms closely to conventions for clarity, such as consistent font and placement of title and cover lines. It challenges conventions less due to lack of examples in the horror magazine genre.
Overall, the media product strategically conforms to and challenges conventions to create an intriguing product while still communicating the intended horror genre.
In what ways does your media product use
This document discusses how the media product uses conventions of real media in its teaser trailer, magazine cover, and poster. For the teaser trailer, it uses desaturated images, transitions seen in psychological thrillers, and red text on black background. The teaser trailer is 54 seconds long, following the pace of thrillers. The magazine cover mimics the layout and style of Fangoria magazine. The poster uses a bold red title and white text for the tagline and release date, located at the bottom in small text, drawing attention to the title while following thriller poster conventions.
Media trailer idents
- In teaser trailers, idents act as branding for the film's distribution company and can influence a viewer's interest in the film. For example, someone may be more inclined to watch a film distributed by Sony if they are already a fan of Sony.
- Movie idents in teaser trailers are typically animated for one or two seconds to create excitement and build atmosphere.
- Film idents usually appear at the very beginning of a trailer as one of the first things viewers see. Distribution companies that add their ident are responsible for marketing the film and providing financing.
Commentary script for Evaluation
The document discusses research done for a student horror film project. It analyzes conventions used in well-known horror films like "Scream" to understand how to build tension. Top conventions studied included using unsettling sounds that build over time, isolating characters, and having a naive protagonist. Feedback on a draft was received, noting strong research but room to improve lighting and adding more to the film poster.
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Research - Film Typographies & Production Company Logos
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- 2. Companies that associate with horror films Warner brothers horror/thriller ident is very similar to Lionsgate it uses deep dark colours and images of the sky and clouds to convey the genre.
- 3. Based on research we conducted we found that idents used in horror movies vary. Some companies adapt their ident based on the genre and some don’t. the ones that do seem to have very dark colours and blend together. They all contained the colour black and usually red or dark blue as well. For the companies that don’t change their ident, they have very sophisticated idents, they look professional and have a colour theme throughout. Based on this we have decided to create one horror themed Ident and one original ident. We also found that most teaser trailers have at least two idents but only last for very little time normally no longer then 1-2 seconds.