Conclusion.

Overall I feel that my trailer was a success, meeting the genre conventions and trailer conventions of the horror, whilst using new media technology in order to accomplish this.

I particularly enjoyed using pinnacle as I have learnt how to utilise it effectively, I also enjoyed using Photoshop to my advantage and incorporating that within my trailer to give it that uniqueness. I also learnt how to use a blog effectively to record my research findings and explaining my work and how I found solutions to problems. At the beginning of this project I had no idea on why directors and producers use certain objects and people in horror films and trailers, I just enjoyed watching them. But by creating/directing/producing a horror trailer myself, I have truly found it an experience, as I had learnt more in detail about the genre. 

Questionnaire Analysis.

I carried out this questionnaire on 30 people - 15 girls and 15 boys. The aim of carrying out this questionnaire was to get feedback and opinions about my trailer and my ancillary task. I got a varied responses from a range of people. 28 people out of 30 thought that my trailer does meet the conventions of other horror trailer that they have previously seen. Whereas, 2 of them selected it doesn’t. With the genre conventions of my trailer, 11 out of 30 people stated that the effect on the title relates to the genre convention as the style of the typography is horror specific, and the colours used is conventional as it uses the typical red and black colours. 7 of the people said that the captions were genre conventional, and 8 out of 30 said that the end of the trailer was genre specific as it uses the sudden scare to shock the audience. And finally 4 people stated that all of the trailer was genre conventional. 14 people stated that they enjoyed the music of the trailer and 7 of my audience said that they enjoyed viewing the end of the trailer. In the 4th question all of the people said if they saw my trailer they would go and watch it at the cinema. They also said if they saw my front cover and poster then they would also go to the cinema and watch it. This is because all of them were attracted to the typography of the front cover and poster, and also the picture on both media.

Audience FeedBack Questionnaire.

Trailer

1. Does my trailer meet the conventions of other horror trailers you have seen?


YES
NO

2.What genre conventions does my trailer possess? (list 3)
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3. Which aspect of my trailer did you enjoy viewing/hearing?
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 4. If you saw my trailer – Would you go and watch the film when released in cinemas?

YES
NO

5. If selected no, please explain why? ………………………………………………………………



Ancillary Task



1. What attracts you most about my poster and front cover?
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2. If you were to see my poster – would you go and watch the film in cinemas?

YES
NO

StoryBoard Analysis.

13. When editing this in, I had the same problem from when I was editing the title of the film . When producing my story board I didn’t know how the captions were going to be designed until actually editing the trailer.

14. This is the same as the above. I knew what the captions where going to say. But I had no idea on how they were going to look like.

15. When editing my trailer I had a very good idea on giving a different look on one of the captions. So I ignored the ‘Do not fear’ caption and stuck with the above. The effect which I created on the second caption, is that I created the image on Photoshop and then imported it into my trailer and copied it 3 times. In which I used the zoom tool and zoomed a little on 1 of the copy versions, and a little more on the last.

StoryBoard Analysis.

10. This scene was shot once as it went successfully and matched my story board.

11. My original plan was to just film from one angle with just the character swinging the watch necklace. But then I had an idea , and that was to film the character swinging the watch necklace and using handheld go around the character, in an arc. I then editing it and made the speed of the scene faster. The reason why is so that it matched the overall pace of the trailer.

12. This shot was easy to shoot, and the most fun to shoot as the character had to scream at the camera, which I took the still out of the filming and put it in my trailer so that the audience can get a glance of the possessed.

StoryBoard Analysis.

7. As I zoomed into the character, I didn’t zoom in as much as it is pictured in my story board, that is because I thought it would be effective if I filmed the character look upwards, by doing this and editing an earthquake effect, along with the sound FX in the background it can create a very dynamic, eerie feel to which the audience can feel.

8. I haven’t keep to the story board with this text, as when I was creating my storyboard I didn’t know the style of text which I would use in my trailer, so I decided to use the text in which was featured in the front of my magazine front cover and promotional cover. So that house style is maintained.

9. With this shot I didn’t stick to the story board as I was hope to do an angled shot however, because of the lack of equipment I couldn’t achieve this effect. So I stuck to an eye level shot in which the character was level with the character.

StoryBoard Analysis.

4. This is the other view of the conversation, but this time we can see the male character. This is the first time where the audience can see the male character, however it is just a quick glace.

5. Whilst shooting this scene I changed the angle of the camera as I wanted it level with the character. The reason why I changed the angle is because the higher the camera the more of a vulnerable effect it has on the character, and I didn’t want to make the character . vulnerable

6. In the story board I have drawn the shot as it would be a mid shot, however on the trailer I have shot a mid shot of the character and used the zoom button which features on the camera.

StoryBoard Analysis.

 1. I stuck to my storyboard and accomplished this shot. This is shot is shown at the beginning of the trailer as I wanted the main focus to be on the watch necklace as this is the focus of the film.

2. Whilst editing this into my trailer, I gave this shot and many of my other shots an earthquake effect. I gave it this effect because I wanted to give it a sense of awkwardness to it. Along with this shot and the previous one I duplicated the shots and used the zoom tool in Pinnacle and zoomed in some of the shots and made the pace of them fast to suit the pace of the overall trailer.

3. As you can see, I have doe an over the shoulder shot, as it is a conversation between 2 people. By accomplishing this scene at the breakfast table, I remembered the camera workshop which I attended and learnt the rule of thirds, in which I used whilst shooting this scene.

Editing.

Today I finally was able to finish the trailer and burn it onto disk.  The shots which I added was the ending of the trailer where I wanted to scare the audience at the end to really give it that horror feel.
The way I achieved this was to add the scene of the necklace watch with it zooming in close, and as the music is still playing softly and quietly, I added a quick scene of a closeup of the main character face with the makeup run down her face and looking possessed for 0.01 seconds, and then I added in the possession text where the colour were inverted (which I edited in photoshop) to finally finish the trailer off.

Editing.

Today I produced the 'coming soon' text which I also created on photoshop. I then saved it as a picture file (Jpeg) and imported it in to the trailer.  

I then added a transition similar to the transition used at the beginning of the trailer introducing the first scene. 

I felt that this gave an interesting look and something unique for the audience to watch.