Auxilery task- Planning

Planning of our trailer;
step one- Once we had decided on a genre, we go onto reasearching that genre with apropriate trailers, posters and magazine covers. We analised the conventions and what made them sucessful and thought about how we could apply these tecneques to our peice.

step two- we came up with a concept and storyline that we could base our trailer around. We then came up with the story line for our horror trailer which is;
a detective has found cases of a virus and people acting strangly (almost zombie like state) the dectective then trys to get to the bottem of these strage goings on.

step 3- we then story boarded our ideas to the storyline and based on what other trailers look like.

step 4- we then used a HD camera and shot the footage.

step 5- we lastly uploaded the footage and used final cut pro in order to edit the raw footage.

Auxilery task- Images

We took these images in black and white to create a dark and creepy look, also to give the impression that it's set in an old creepy house.

Auxilery task- Images

We then tried a few images in a home enviroment (similar the the setting for the Orphan poster) By having a home setting it creates a sence of famililarity for the audiance meaning they can easily associate themselfs with what's happening in the poster. ALso, by having it in a home enviroment, you get a clear sence of what time period the film is going to be set in (present) AGin the rule off thirds was applied when taking this image so that both the "phantom" and the woman catch the veiwers eye.

Auxilery task- Images

In the first and last image, we tryed a Point of Veiw shot, so from the point of veiw of the person being chaced by the hodded figure. By doing a POV shot it hopefully making the audiance feel as though they are actually there. Again I have experemented with changing the ISO to hopefully create an almost supernatural effect (fitting for the genre) On the top two images, we took them in black and white to create a dark creepy effect fitting for the genre. We tryed to apply the rule of thirds when taking our images to ensure that the target audiance are automatically drawn to the correct areas of the image. This helps when creating an effective poster.

Auxilery task- Images

After our intitial reasearch, we decided we liked the imagry in the Blair Witch project posters with the forest and negative filter. So we took our initial imagry in a forest scence. In terms of compositon when taking the images we made sure that the main vilan of our film was on the poster but positioned far enough aways so to create an enigma. The other reason we decided to have the "hodded figure" on our poster was that one of the commen convetions of horror posters when doing our initial reasearch was that they have the villian or monster on the poster. In order to try and get the negative effect that we liked from the blairwitch project poster, I increased the iso on the camera. This ultimatly resulted in a bright unatural look to the image, this helped portray the idea of it being supernstural and mysterious.

Reasearch- Wolfman

The colours are dark and cold with blues and blacks and a dark filter been place in the image. This use of colours creats the sence of a cold and dark atmospher a typical convention of horror films. This idea of being chaced by a supernatural being.

Reasearch- Orphan poster and The Blair Witch project

The Blair Witch Project

colours

The colours have been inverted on the image, this gives a supernatural feel to the poster. This realy gives a sence that it's a si-fi horror film. The fact that it's all in black and white gives it a dark feeling to the poster agaim amplifying the horror/ sci-fi genre. The subtulty of the only bit of colour being the red logo, really makes it stand out and brings to mind all the conotations of red ; anger, danger blood ect.

Image and layout

The image they have used is that of deep forest, this creates an enigma as trees aren't considered frightning and goes against the norm for horror posters. This leaves you wondering..what's the signifycanc of the forest?? Another way in which this poster creates a sence of mystery is by not having the film title in the usual place, going against normal poster conventions. By just having the title and a section of narative from the film it makes the target audiance curious about it and wanting to find out more.

Orphan

The dominate colour in this poster is a blood, this brings to mind images of muder, danger and anger, which are themes that run throughout horror films. The fact that the image is of a child, you'd expect a child to be happy and care free yet the child on this is the oppostite with a serious expression. This makes the target audiance feel uneasy as it goes against the norm. The font looks like scratched wich sugests a non human precence in the movie, again a common theme in horror films.

Reasearch- Empire magazine front cover

Image
A mid shot of the actor has been used, so from top of the head down to the knees.The main focal points what have been created through the rule of thirds, is the actors face and the weapons he's holding, this shows his facial expression, showing the menacing feel to the film. Also the fact that the weapons are a focal point shows the genre of action in this film.

Editing
A gradient has been applied, meaning it gets darker as it goes down, resulting in the upper part of the actor being highlighted along with the title, again showing that they are the main focal points.

Colours
The colours used are very grimy and dirty colours, so; browns greys and blacks ect his reflects the sinister atmosphere to the film, it also reflects the rough nature of the film. This colours have also been used in the background to make hit girl in purple, big daddy in orange, the main character in blue and the blood in red, all stand out in comparison. The blood shows the violent nature of the film.

Reasearch- Empire magazine front cover

Layout/composition

The image covers part of the magazine title. This shows that the film is the dominant feature. This also relates to the mise en scene as the actor in the picture has a menacing look on his face as though he's very dominant.

Colours

Colours used reflect the title of the film "Green zone" so the dominant colour used being green. green text and a green filter used on the image.

Image and editing on image

Image complies to the rule of thirds, making his face and the gun the main focal points. This shows that it's a famous star on the front, enticing people to buy the magazine. Also the fact that the gun is also a main focal point shows the genre of the film (that being action)