Analyses of film posters

Ertan film poster powerpoint presentation

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Sounds:Diagetic and non-diagetic

this non-copyrighted song above has some very interesting sounds which I believe I can cut up and use.



this is the sound of a musical jewelry box, it is a very important sound as it will act as a catalyst for tension to rise within the trailer.


We have had a lot of trouble finding the appropriate music for our trailer, we have tried using various songs but none seem to work with it, I am hoping that if we use the Musical Ballet box music properly it can be the base sound to our trailer.

Task assignments

Throughout this project we have had to assign different tasks to each other within the group, we did this so we can each focus on one thing to make it as good as possible.

Today we assigned tasks to each group member.

• Ertan had to look at existing Horror film posters.
• Gramos had to look at Magazine front covers.
• And I had to do the storyboard.
  

target audience profile

Above is a URL link to a target audience profile for a psychological horror. I have uploaded this URL because it links to what my group needs to do for our target audience profile for our potential audience and how we can go about writing it.

Our target audience is from the ages of 15 - 30+ as the certificate age of our film we be a 15+ film. we have chosen this age group because our horror production we are creating will be more of a psychological horror therefore we appeal to the older audiences with that aspect of the genre. We appeal to the younger audience because of the sheer horror aspects which most younger audiences look for in horrors to have a sense of fear and fright.

Our film production aims to a rather wide audience as we do not aim the film at any people of a certain class the film will be made for all types of people lower, middle and the ruling class as the film will have intelligence as an aspect because of the fact that its a psychological horror it also fulfills the main concepts of horror films which is to scare the audience.

How is our film a Psychological horror?

How is our film a Psychological horror

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This research and comparison of psychological horrors was very useful, as it will not only confirm what type of film our is but help us use these conventions to improve our trailer.

Amy Smith - Character Profile

We want this evil re-incarnation of Amy Smith to have similar physical and mental characterstics to characters like, the exorcist girl ,The ring girl and the grudge girl.

.The girl is 10 years old

.She is the evil re-incarnation of Amy Smith

.Was very quite in day to day life before she died, this characteristic makes her mysterious

.She is very intelligent, this gives her power.

.She has a lot of anger inside her because her parents where not there for her, she takes this anger out on any family that lives in her house.

.She wears a plain white gown, like the ring girl, I think the simplicity of the costume makes her scary and lifeless.

.Her attachment to the Musical Ballet box and the use of it to taunt the victims show her mental instability.

.She is illusive and only appears to terrorize the inhabitants of her house.

The Grudge Girl

To create our Character I believe it is important we look at similar character in existing films to get inspiration.

A character we have undoubtedly looked in to is the evil girl from ‘The Grudge’ ,Her background is very similar to our Antagonists ( Amy smith) background, she was also killed in her own house and haunts it like our character, Similarly our character (Amy smith) also holds a grudge.I think The Grudge girl has a lot of interesting characteristics we can use and develop. I like the way the evil girl in grudge is quite illusive and sly ,there are examples of this in The Grudge trailer

This shot really gives a sense of her being sly, and I believe we can use make similar shots to show this characteristic.

The Ring Girl

From early on our group particularly like the idea of a young girl being the antagonist as it challenges conventions, stereotypically a small girl would be an innocent victim.When it came to deciding what the girl should look like films like the excorcist, the ring and the grudge instantly came to our mind. The ring was very good at making a small girl look spine chillingly scary, so we decided to take elements from her and incorporate them into our antagonist. We looked at things like her costume and her behaviour.

The first picture shows the ring girl and the second one is our Antogonist there is a clear resemblance between the two characters, the ring analysis has been very helpful in terms of creating our characters look.

The Abandoned - Choosing a Title

We have decided to call our film 'The Abandoned'. We have chosen this name because it directly relates to the narrative and it can also give audiences insight into the film. We hope this insight through the title can draw audiences in. The abandoned also relates to the idea of isolation, vulnerability and therefore fear these are all key concepts and themes which are very common in horror films, examples of these concepts can be seen in films such as 'The Blair Witch Project' where they are lost in a forest of the isolation of 'The ring' girl in the tape.

I think it was important we kept the title simple and that we started it with 'The...' as it correlates with style of our film and references to the films that influenced our like

Synopsis for "The Abondoned"

Synopsis for ‘The Abandoned’

Mr .George Smith and Janet Smith are living a perfectly normal life with their 10 year old daughter, Amy Smith. Everything is going well for them, with the parents enjoying a healthy relationship, a good lifestyle with both of them in a full time job which gives them both financial and social benefits. They have been living together in the house for 13 years in the city which they have spent a long time making as homely as possible both for themselves and for their daughter. One 16/10/1999 an unfortunate sequence of events led to the house catching fire, Sadly the parents were out as they break free from the monotony of the week by going out for dinner, leaving Amy alone in the house. Later that night Amy awakes to the smell of burning smoke. Looking around wide eyed she sees her room enveloped by dark smoke. Coughing as she leaves her room Amy notices there is no escape, at this moment a powerful rage takes over Amy, how could her parents abandon her?. Later that evening the fire brigade manage to pull Amy’s body out from the burning building, her face was emotionless and her eyes were still wide open. 16/10/2010 a young couple buy the old Smith residence, believeing it was the place to raise their unborn child, little did they know about the events that took place at the house 11 years ago. The young couple Jane and sebastien will have to withstand the eerie things that ocurr in the this house, they are physically and mentally terrorized by the evil re-incarnation of Amy smith.

The Grudge synopsis

The Grudge describes a curse that is born when someone dies in the grip of a powerful rage or extreme sorrow (see Onryō). The curse gathers in the place where that person died. Those who encounter this murderous supernatural force die and the curse is reborn repeatedly, passed from victim to victim in an endless, growing chain of horror.

Trailer Analysis The Grudge

TRAILER ANALYSIS : THE GRUDGE


.The trailer starts by showing a text, it says ‘Columbia pictures’ , all trailers have this to show who produces it, but in this case it will also interest an audience as it is a renown film production company.

.The first few short shots are of city and house, this shows the audience the environment where the film will be set,Non-Diagetic eerie sirens fade in this creates a tense atmosphere and instantly makes it clear to the audience that it is a horror movie.

.The trailer has short sentances that fade in throughout giving the audience insight into the narrative.

.The first sentance is followed by a series of very fast shots containing close ups of a scary girls face. At this point the non-diagetic sounds heighten the atmosphere with high pitched strings and sound of a woman in distress

. A voice over is then used, it is the main characters voice, she says short sentences giving us an insight to the storyline. The speed of the shots slow down while she is speaking.The eerie sirens are used when the trailer slows down.

.After another written sentence fades in the shots suddenly speed up again ,showing more scary imagery along with the the strings an sounds of malfunctioning electronics.

.Another sentances fades in and the shots slow down again, from here on the shots speeds alternate from slow to fast shots,the non-diagetic sound of voices and strings build up by becoming more high pitched, this alternation of shots combined with the sound building up creates alot of tension and anticipation.

. This build leads to to the scariest shot in the trailer.

I made this to show the tension levels in the trailer and to show how the builds up are effective, i believe i can learn from this and use this to structure my trailer.

There were some very nice editing techniques, the use of making the screen flash black a couple times before showing the quick scary shots, shocks and confuses the audience.

First/Basic Concepts

This is a task that we did in class as a group. The point of the task was to understand what we need to research to have a better understanding for our trailer. It was also to string ideas together for our trailer.

Common Horror Themes / Plotlines

SLASHER

The most common/popular style of horror film is probably slasher. These films usually have a lot of blood and gore involved, with an emphasis on killing scenes. The antagonist will usually have an iconic and distinctive look ,usually with a mask and particular weapon. Examples of this are The 'Scream' mask and the chainsaw 'In The Texas chainsaw massacre'. PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR

Psychological Horrors are generally based on a characters fear and usually has a more complex plotline. They are more subtle and contain less physical harm. Films like The Ring and The Others would come under this style.
TORTURE HORROR
This type of horror is usually very Gorey as the writer must think up unusual ways to kill someone . The films can some times consist of a game created by some sick person. The characters in the game must go through tests which they will usually never win leading to their death. Examples of this would be Resident Evil and Saw.

Conventions of Film Trailers

• Trailers are short and made up short scenes and shots, this builds anticipation and makes the film look exciting.
• It has key elements like the name of the Production Company and release date, this fulfills an audiences expectation and helps them understand what kind of film it is.
• It is important that the audience can instantly recognize the genre of the film through the trailer, horror trailers are easy to recognize through the imagery and sound.
• Trailers usually consist of key shots and scenes in a movie, this makes the trailer more exciting and attractive to audiences.
  

A Meeting

At the end of the summer term we were asked to film a short scene of a meeting, our one was a scene of friends meeting up to play football.

We used an establishing shot and a pan to show where our scene would take place.

There was good use of continuity editing throughout , especially when the characters kicked the ball. This good use of continuity editing made the video easy to understand and helped it unfold.

There are definitely things we have to improve on like range of shot types used and we should have developed a better script.

Prezi AS to A2

AS Evaluation on Prezi