Friday, 12 October 2012
Thursday, 11 October 2012
The Proposal
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Proposal
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Project Name:
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Trailer Of A Horror Film
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Date:
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11/12/2012
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Student Names:
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Joanna Czurlowska, Jhully Marangoni, Ondre
Brooks
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Contact Details:
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Crest Sixth Form College
Crest Road,
London NW2 7SN |
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Title of work:
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The Sacrifice
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Type of product:
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The product we have decided to produce is a horror trailer called
'The Sacrifice'. The product will be created to promote the film and let the
audience know what it is about, as well as trying to entice them to watch the
movie.
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Legal and ethical constraints:
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The trailer which we will be producing will be aimed at
people above the age of 15 although this is still a group below
18 therefore there should be nothing that is
not appropriate for this age group; no acts of sex, taking drugs, excessive
violence/gore or swearing will be included.
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Audience:
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We want the trailer to appeal to those who are fans of horror movies
as this would be our target audience. We also want to appeal to those aged
15-26 as they are the main age groupings for horror movies. We want the
audience to become curious about the movie due to the enigmas left by the
trailer as this would help persuade them to watch the film.
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Content:
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The trailer would contain short
clips from the movie complied into a trailer. This would also include non
digetic music that helps set the tone and the pace of the trailer. The clips
in the trailer would be arranged in an order that would give the audience a brief
over view of what the movie was about without giving away all of the plot.
The trailer would also contain information such as release dates, actors and
institutions involved in the production of the movie. The trailer will also
include conventions from the horror genre so that the audience are aware of
the genre of the movie
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Wednesday, 10 October 2012
A History of Horror
The first appearance of supernatural events in movies were done in the late 1890s in silent shorts created by the film pioneer Georges Méliès. The most well know of these being Le Manoir du diable (The Manor of the Devil) which is often called the first horror movie. The second monster to appear in a horror movie was Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre-Dame who appeared in Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris. The first vampire themed movie was Nosferatu by F. W. Murnau (1922). During the early periods of talking movies Universal Pictures began a series of Gothic horror film series which was successful which included Tod Browning's Dracula(1931) and was quickly followed by James Whale's Frankenstein(1931).
As technology improved the tone of the movies shifted from Gothic towards contemporary concerns and the subgenres horror-of-armageddon and horror-of-demonic. There were also many productions that featured humans overcoming threats from "outside" such as alien invasions and mutations in people animals and plants.
An example of this would be the Godzilla movies from Japan in which nuclear radiation causes mutation.
Hollywood producers also used gimmicks such as 3d and pseudo-electric-shocks a technique used in The Tingler a 1959 movie.
After the end of the production code of america and due to the financial success of low budget gore horrors more movies with occult themes being released such as the Exorcist.
"Evil children" and reincarnation also became popular themes, an example of this would be Robert Wise's film Audrey Rose (1977) in which a father believes his daughter is a reincarnation of another dead person.
In the 80s there was a sudden was of Gory B movies that became cult classics.
The 1990's saw sequels to slasher films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween and Child's Play.
The Ring Trailer
I decided that as we are creating a trailer it would be good to look at other trailers, we intend for our trailer to be a horror so I would be appropriate to look at a trailer of a similar genre.
This is the trailer for the 2002 movie "The Ring". This movie is classed as a psychological horror, a psychological horror is a horror movie that uses the fear the characters experiences and their emotional insecurities to build tension within the movie. The trailer focuses more on the mental and emotional side of fear rather than having bits which make the audience jump. An example of this would be when the female protagonist receives a call and a whispered voice say "7 days". This doesn't scare the audience in the fact that it makes them jump, but the trailer informs the audience that 7 days after watching the video the person dies, this means the audience know what is going to happen and that the protagonist is working on a time limit and this helps build tension.
The trailer follows several codes and conventions that allow the audience to identify the genre as horror. One of these is the use of dark colours such as greys and dark blues. The trailers lighting is very low key which works well with the dark colours to create a dark and eerie atmosphere. The trailer also uses non digetic sounds to add to the suspense as it uses very slow music that involves string instruments such as violins and a piano playing high notes. The trailers sound track later speeds up but still makes use of String instruments such as violins to build tension. As the pace of the music increases so does the trailers editing, the trailer makes use of sharp quick cuts that increase in speed as the music increases.
The variation in the ring is that women have a lot of power in the movie. For example the main protagonist is a woman and the antagonist is also female (the ghost of the girl). This is a variation that we may apply in our trailer with the main antagonist being a female.
The ring was an American remake of the Japanese horror movie Ringu and when on to inspire other American remakes of Japanese movies such as The Grudge and Dark Water.
The ring had a budget of $48 million this is relatively high compared to movies of a similar genre for example Paranormal activity had a budget of only $15 000. Unfortunately this is not something we can compete with and because of this our quality will not be of a standard similar to that of the ring.
Our movie follows Todorov's narrative theory of equilibrium. The story starts with the characters being safe and having fun(Equilibrium). They then start being troubled by the ghostly antagonist (Disequilibrium). The protagonists then struggle to escape with their lives and return home safe (New equilibrium)
This is the trailer for the 2002 movie "The Ring". This movie is classed as a psychological horror, a psychological horror is a horror movie that uses the fear the characters experiences and their emotional insecurities to build tension within the movie. The trailer focuses more on the mental and emotional side of fear rather than having bits which make the audience jump. An example of this would be when the female protagonist receives a call and a whispered voice say "7 days". This doesn't scare the audience in the fact that it makes them jump, but the trailer informs the audience that 7 days after watching the video the person dies, this means the audience know what is going to happen and that the protagonist is working on a time limit and this helps build tension.
The trailer follows several codes and conventions that allow the audience to identify the genre as horror. One of these is the use of dark colours such as greys and dark blues. The trailers lighting is very low key which works well with the dark colours to create a dark and eerie atmosphere. The trailer also uses non digetic sounds to add to the suspense as it uses very slow music that involves string instruments such as violins and a piano playing high notes. The trailers sound track later speeds up but still makes use of String instruments such as violins to build tension. As the pace of the music increases so does the trailers editing, the trailer makes use of sharp quick cuts that increase in speed as the music increases.
The variation in the ring is that women have a lot of power in the movie. For example the main protagonist is a woman and the antagonist is also female (the ghost of the girl). This is a variation that we may apply in our trailer with the main antagonist being a female.
The ring was an American remake of the Japanese horror movie Ringu and when on to inspire other American remakes of Japanese movies such as The Grudge and Dark Water.
The ring had a budget of $48 million this is relatively high compared to movies of a similar genre for example Paranormal activity had a budget of only $15 000. Unfortunately this is not something we can compete with and because of this our quality will not be of a standard similar to that of the ring.
Our movie follows Todorov's narrative theory of equilibrium. The story starts with the characters being safe and having fun(Equilibrium). They then start being troubled by the ghostly antagonist (Disequilibrium). The protagonists then struggle to escape with their lives and return home safe (New equilibrium)
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Horror Mood board
I created a mood board for the genre we decided to use. Which was horror.
I thought about horror movies and put all the things that came mind on my mood board.
I thought about horror movies and put all the things that came mind on my mood board.
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