15 July 2015
10 July 2015
Research - The Gallows - Film Trailer
We researched low budget/independent film trailers because they are similar quality to what we would be able to make. Looking at the settings, music and how many shots are included helped us to realise the amount of footage we would need for our own trailers and how much we would need to edit it. We also thought about what makes a good film trailer, which gave us inspiration for what we want to do ourselves.
The Gallows
The Gallows is a low budget, horror film that is set around a play that resulted in a teenager being killed the last time it was performed, which a school is attempting to bring back. Four teenagers try to prevent the play from happening the night before the performance, but discover that a spirit is haunting the school.
The characters included in the trailer are the four main teenagers, three police officers and the spirit. The teenagers are seen breaking into the building and vandalising the set of the play, which is a very stereotypical representation of teenagers. There's two girls and two boys, who are all teenagers, included in the film and they are all dressed in casual, normal clothes. The audience would be able to relate to these characters as they are of a similar age to the target audience of older teenagers and act like actual teenagers would in the situations throughout the film. The spirit is barely seen in the film and most of the "scary" things in the trailer are done by some invisible being - which might make the audience jump. If the trailer makes the audience scared, then they would be more likely to see the film because they believe that the film will be good and scare them further. They would also want to see what the spirit looks like and why it is there, along with wanting to know if the teenagers survive.
There are multiple music tracks used in the trailer, with the main song being a cover of Nirvana's "Teen Spirit" (which fits with the storyline). The music pauses in places to allow that audience to hear diegetic sound - such as screams and banging doors - which puts emphasis on them and tries to scare the viewer.
The trailer is 2 minutes and 18 seconds long, and in this time there's roughly 86 shots. The pace gets a lot faster once the spirit starts making things happen, which interests the audience and makes them want to keep watching. Near the end of the trailer, there is a scene of a girl with a noose around her neck and the pace slows down slightly before multiple images flash quickly across the scene and then she is pulled back by the noose. This might make the audience jump and also makes them want to know what happened to the girl.
The main two settings are in a school and outside what I assume is the same school, and the teenagers are seen in the school's theatre, hallway, hall and backstage. The audience can relate to these places because they will either be in school or they have just left school, which would frighten them into wondering if their own school is haunted too.
The inter titles show reviews of the film and movies related to it - which would attract fans of the horror genre because they might have seen the other films before. They appear very quickly, giving barely any time for the viewer to read them, which fits with the fast pace of the trailer and would perhaps make them need to watch it again if they missed anything.
The Gallows
The Gallows is a low budget, horror film that is set around a play that resulted in a teenager being killed the last time it was performed, which a school is attempting to bring back. Four teenagers try to prevent the play from happening the night before the performance, but discover that a spirit is haunting the school.
The characters included in the trailer are the four main teenagers, three police officers and the spirit. The teenagers are seen breaking into the building and vandalising the set of the play, which is a very stereotypical representation of teenagers. There's two girls and two boys, who are all teenagers, included in the film and they are all dressed in casual, normal clothes. The audience would be able to relate to these characters as they are of a similar age to the target audience of older teenagers and act like actual teenagers would in the situations throughout the film. The spirit is barely seen in the film and most of the "scary" things in the trailer are done by some invisible being - which might make the audience jump. If the trailer makes the audience scared, then they would be more likely to see the film because they believe that the film will be good and scare them further. They would also want to see what the spirit looks like and why it is there, along with wanting to know if the teenagers survive.
There are multiple music tracks used in the trailer, with the main song being a cover of Nirvana's "Teen Spirit" (which fits with the storyline). The music pauses in places to allow that audience to hear diegetic sound - such as screams and banging doors - which puts emphasis on them and tries to scare the viewer.
The trailer is 2 minutes and 18 seconds long, and in this time there's roughly 86 shots. The pace gets a lot faster once the spirit starts making things happen, which interests the audience and makes them want to keep watching. Near the end of the trailer, there is a scene of a girl with a noose around her neck and the pace slows down slightly before multiple images flash quickly across the scene and then she is pulled back by the noose. This might make the audience jump and also makes them want to know what happened to the girl.
The main two settings are in a school and outside what I assume is the same school, and the teenagers are seen in the school's theatre, hallway, hall and backstage. The audience can relate to these places because they will either be in school or they have just left school, which would frighten them into wondering if their own school is haunted too.
The inter titles show reviews of the film and movies related to it - which would attract fans of the horror genre because they might have seen the other films before. They appear very quickly, giving barely any time for the viewer to read them, which fits with the fast pace of the trailer and would perhaps make them need to watch it again if they missed anything.
1 July 2015
Creating my own film magazine cover
One of the problems that I faced was making this magazine cover look different form the last one that I created. I searched for images of past 'Total Film' covers and decided to copy the tilted bar across the middle of the cover that shows images of upcoming films. I think that it works well with the cover because it is more eye-catching and allowed me to add more underneath - as on my past cover, I had to make the font smaller so that it would all fit in.
Initially, I wanted to put Madison and Ethan on the cover to mimic the main characters on the 'Jupiter Ascending' cover but I felt that it made the cover look too cluttered and took attention away from the main character. Another problem that I faced was the fact that the fact that the picture of Madison wasn't very good quality, and so I had to sharpen and re-colour the image so that it fit with the professional style of the rest of the cover - which took longer than it should have due to my limited Photoshop abilities.
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