Question 1 trailer

In what ways does your media
product use, develop and or
challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?
Trailer.

Research and Planning.
At first I wasn’t sure which genre I wanted my trailer to be so I
narrowed it down to four different genres. They were:
• Fantasy - I looked at Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2011)
and 17 Again (2009),
• Comedy – I looked at the Inbetweeners (2011) and Driving Lessons
(2006),
• Romantic comedy – I looked at Wedding Crashers (2005) and Bridget
Jones’ Diary (2001),
• Horror – I looked at Blair witch project (1999) and Scream (1996).
After looking at these trailers on Youtube I decided I wanted to make a
horror trailer. However I also wanted my trailer to appear in black and
white. I then did some research on black and white horror trailers, the
ones I looked at were Curse of the Demon (1957), Frankenstein (1931).
Even though the film The Artist (2011) isn't a horror it is the most
recent black and white film to be released. I thought it was important
to look at this trailer because of that reason.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV7_erL3F6A&feature=player_embedded

Before I decided to
design a story board I sat
down and decided what I
wanted my character to
be like so I made a check
list and recorded it on
my blog so I could refer
back to it when I needed
to. I also showed this
check list to my actor
who was playing the
character so they had
more of an idea of what
they had to do to give a
good performance.

To help me plan my trailer I
produced a story board so I would
have a layout to follow. This is also a
convention that is used for every
film being made. This also allowed
me to plan when I was film and
where which made the process a lot
more organised. Even though I
changed certain scenes I stuck to my
story board. When looking at horror
trailers I noticed that many of them
ended on the cliff hanger and left
you wanting to know what
happened. So I decided to develop
this and made sure that when I was
creating my story board that the
final box had a cliff hanger scene in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV7_erL3F6A&feature
=player_embedded

Location.
For the location I got the idea from the film Scream. I liked the
idea of how someone could be vulnerable in their own house so
I decided to develop this idea. The location also allowed me to
take shots from different angle because of the stairs.


Music and Speech.
I my trailer I decided I didn’t want the actor to say anything
throughout the trailer. This meant I challenged real media
because all the horror trailers I looked at had the
character/characters speaking in them. However I feel that the
character not speaking in my trailer works because I have the
voice over and have the music throughout the whole of my
trailer. I put the music throughout the whole of my trailer
because the drums especially built up the tension and I noticed
that the film Frankenstein used this convention in this film
however my music is more up to date and it fits in with the
mood of my trailer.


Voice over/ narration.
When researching horror trailer I noticed
that a lot of them had voice overs in them
to narrate the trailer. I decided to develop
this in my trailer and have it at the
beginning and the end of my trailer. I
wanted it at the beginning to set the
scene and give people some clues about
the trailer. I then put the voice over at the
end to name the trailer name when it
faded in.



Font of title.
I saw that the trailers font seemed to be
chunky and large. The ones that stood
out were Curse of the Demon and
Frankenstein. I liked this style and size
and decided to use this convention. I
wanted my title name to look like this so
I decided to experiment in Dafont
website.

This is the font style I used for my
trailer, magazine and poster.

Other Font used and where it was used.
When watching the trailers I researched I noticed
that the actor names were in the middle of the
trailer or at the end. When looking at Frankinstien
and Curse of the Demon I saw that the font style
for the actors name was the same as the font for
the title. I decided I would challenge this because I
wanted it to be different so my title would stand
out even more at the end. I developed the idea
from The Artist because the font was small and in
the middle of the screen which made it look well
presented. I also used a plain black background. I
also used the same font for the actors name and
the ‘ COMING FRIDAY 13TH APRIL 2012’. This meant
they linked well together and that I didn’t have
random text. I wanted to carry on the convention
of horror films showing the date of the release at
the end of the trailer. This also felt like a natural
conclusion to the trailer.


Shots.
When researching horror
trailers I paid particular
attention to the shots. This will
make my trailer look more
appealing to watch and also it
will look more professional. I
noticed that there were lots of
close ups that were fast
paced, over the shoulder
shots, establishing shots. I
included all of these in my
trailer especially the over the
shoulder shots when my actor
was running as it gave the
impression someone was
chasing her. I also used lots of
close ups combined with fast
paced music which added to the
tension building up. These shots
are typical horror conventions
so I decided to add these in.

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