- Come up with ideas for presentation - powerpoint slide
- Get audience feedback
- Choose actors
- Choose location
- Storyboard
- Research other blogs
- Decide on music
- Look at pictures and other ideas from teaser trailers
- Research Film posters
- Costume and props
- Research other magazine covers (Empire)
- Take pictures for our storyboard
- Questionnaire - 3 main idea's
- Make mind map
- Decide on shot types
- Treatment (Film idea, representation, mise en scene)
- Script of teaser trailer
- Researching similiar camera styles and narratives
- Shot list
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
To Do List
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Nightmare on Elm Street trailer analysis
2009 Trailer
Genre - The trailer starts with a car chase and slow continuous shot's of a man running from villager's on a misty evening which creates a dramatic opening scene. The man hiding and then being burned by the people is Freddy Krueger as we see him reveal his red and green jumper under his jacket. There is a sign saying Elm Street which instantly tells the audience who know about the original film that this is going to be a horror film. Tense music and dim lighting is also used in this trailer to create suspense. We hear screaming which hint's at violence and also tells us that this is going to be a scary film.
Narrative - A voice over is also used, but it is a young girl speaking in this trailer and she then says 'I'm having these dreams', which immediately opens up the main element of the story. A young girl is also chanting in the background the same nursery-rhyme about Freddy Krueger as used in the 1984 film. Title's are included saying 'Dont fall asleep' which suggests that the monster get's to people when they are sleeping. This trailer also focuses a lot more around Freddy and how he came to be the monster he now is, whereas the 1984 film focused more on the main victim of the story who was a young girl.
Representation - Freddy Krueger is represented to us right from the beginning and we are shown his backstory and how he got his scars. In both trailer's young girl's are shown wearing white and playing with a skipping rope . The same stereotypical character's are also shown in the trailer to be teenagers and the main character is also a young girl.
Audience - The target audience would be fan's of the 1984 film. The teaser trailer hint's at the gore and violence but doesn't actually show as much of the death's like the 1984 film. It also appeals much more to the mainstream young adult audience whereas the 1984 film was much less mainstream and aimed at an older audience.
Media Language - Blood red font is also used in this trailer for the titles to convey that it is a horror film. The shot's are cut together much more sharply than the 1984 film because this is a teaser trailer rather than the full trailer and it also build's more suspense.
Genre - The trailer starts with a car chase and slow continuous shot's of a man running from villager's on a misty evening which creates a dramatic opening scene. The man hiding and then being burned by the people is Freddy Krueger as we see him reveal his red and green jumper under his jacket. There is a sign saying Elm Street which instantly tells the audience who know about the original film that this is going to be a horror film. Tense music and dim lighting is also used in this trailer to create suspense. We hear screaming which hint's at violence and also tells us that this is going to be a scary film.
Narrative - A voice over is also used, but it is a young girl speaking in this trailer and she then says 'I'm having these dreams', which immediately opens up the main element of the story. A young girl is also chanting in the background the same nursery-rhyme about Freddy Krueger as used in the 1984 film. Title's are included saying 'Dont fall asleep' which suggests that the monster get's to people when they are sleeping. This trailer also focuses a lot more around Freddy and how he came to be the monster he now is, whereas the 1984 film focused more on the main victim of the story who was a young girl.
Representation - Freddy Krueger is represented to us right from the beginning and we are shown his backstory and how he got his scars. In both trailer's young girl's are shown wearing white and playing with a skipping rope . The same stereotypical character's are also shown in the trailer to be teenagers and the main character is also a young girl.
Audience - The target audience would be fan's of the 1984 film. The teaser trailer hint's at the gore and violence but doesn't actually show as much of the death's like the 1984 film. It also appeals much more to the mainstream young adult audience whereas the 1984 film was much less mainstream and aimed at an older audience.
Media Language - Blood red font is also used in this trailer for the titles to convey that it is a horror film. The shot's are cut together much more sharply than the 1984 film because this is a teaser trailer rather than the full trailer and it also build's more suspense.
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Nightmare on Elm Street trailer analysis
1984 Trailer
Genre - The trailer tells us that this is a horror film by following the conventions of this genre. It includes a monster/villain, screaming and music building up suspense along with the chanting of a young girl. It informs us that the director is Wes Craven who is famous for film's such as 'The hills have eyes' and 'The last house on the left', so we know that this film is going to be scary and contain a lot of gore because of who the director is. The lighting is dark and a voice-over saying that nobody will survive which indicates what type of film it will be.
Narrative - The voice-over is a man's voice and doesn't give much away but does provide us with hints. For example, it does show us that people are being killed and that this is happening in their dream's but we do not know why. The death's are left unexplained which creates a lot of enigma to make the audience want to see the film and find out what happens.
Representation - The main character's are very stereotypical as they use teenagers, which is typical of the horror genre to use young people as the victims. The trailer focuses on one girl, who is the main character that the story is focused around and is used because girl's are seen as more innocent and fragile, so make a better victim for a horror film. Another representation is the young girl chanting a nursery rhyme type song about Freddy Krueger coming to get you which is also typical and used in a lot of horror films. The monster is not shown clearly to build up suspense as to what he look's like and we only see his silhouette or a claw-like hand.
Audience - The target audience would be fan's of the director Wes Craven and his other films. The audience would most likely be adults as the film is very gory and scary.
Media Language - Blood red font is used for the title's which fit's in with the horror genre and makes the title's seem dramatic and to stand out more.
Genre - The trailer tells us that this is a horror film by following the conventions of this genre. It includes a monster/villain, screaming and music building up suspense along with the chanting of a young girl. It informs us that the director is Wes Craven who is famous for film's such as 'The hills have eyes' and 'The last house on the left', so we know that this film is going to be scary and contain a lot of gore because of who the director is. The lighting is dark and a voice-over saying that nobody will survive which indicates what type of film it will be.
Narrative - The voice-over is a man's voice and doesn't give much away but does provide us with hints. For example, it does show us that people are being killed and that this is happening in their dream's but we do not know why. The death's are left unexplained which creates a lot of enigma to make the audience want to see the film and find out what happens.
Representation - The main character's are very stereotypical as they use teenagers, which is typical of the horror genre to use young people as the victims. The trailer focuses on one girl, who is the main character that the story is focused around and is used because girl's are seen as more innocent and fragile, so make a better victim for a horror film. Another representation is the young girl chanting a nursery rhyme type song about Freddy Krueger coming to get you which is also typical and used in a lot of horror films. The monster is not shown clearly to build up suspense as to what he look's like and we only see his silhouette or a claw-like hand.
Audience - The target audience would be fan's of the director Wes Craven and his other films. The audience would most likely be adults as the film is very gory and scary.
Media Language - Blood red font is used for the title's which fit's in with the horror genre and makes the title's seem dramatic and to stand out more.
Thursday, 8 October 2009
Preliminary Task
This was our first quick attempt at making a teaser trailer. I think it's good as it builds suspense and is enigmatic and I really like some shots, although some are very shaky when they shouldn't be. We could improve on this when we do our actual teaser trailer. I think think the titles look good so we could do them like this in our final teaser trailer and i like how the name of the film is in red. It involves the audience also by including the world "your" in the last title and in the film name.
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