While filming our horror trailer I took the role of creating the storyboard and making sure the continuity is consistent throughout and also an actress.
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Final Trailer & Ancillary Tasks
While filming our horror trailer I took the role of creating the storyboard and making sure the continuity is consistent throughout and also an actress.
Saturday, 28 April 2012
Thursday, 26 April 2012
EVALUATION - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Whilst in the process of creating our media final media product we compared a variety of horror trailers which had similar conventions which featured in our trailer. We chose Insidious as our style model simply because the conventions which were featured within it of a mysterious figure were also used in ours. Insidious depicts a young boy who plays the victim similarly with ours we have our victim being played by a young girl as we wanted to convey her vulnerability.We researched two theorists Vladimir Propp & Tzervetan Todorov, and linked their ideas to our trailers. Todorov’s theory is based on the narrative structure of horror trailers. His theory consists of 5 stages (equilibrium > disruption > disequilibrium > solution > new equilibrium) With our trailer I found that it challenged Todorov theory as horror trailers would not contain a ‘solution’ or a ‘new equilibrium’ as this would then give away the plot of the film.
Our initial equilibrium is the girl has a dream which quickly turns into a nightmare. Our equilibrium quickly changes into disruption where the demon she is dreaming about turning into a horrible reality, the girl tries on numerous occasions to escape this is our disequilibrium.
Another disequilibrium which is also a typical convention of a horror trailer is the lack of lighting we had within our trailer, we did this so it would make our audience feel very unnerved and want to know what's going on. When we eventually started our editing process we incorporated the opening title from our style model Paranormal Activity which reads Paramount Pictures Production. We don’t have solution or a new equilibrium as it is very unlikely with a film trailer to have a solution as it would give away the plot of the film. With Propp’s it’s mainly his theory of characters, which he has gained from most films which are the hero but they aren’t apparent in the trailer.
As a group we decided not to have any dialogue throughout our horror trailer this is because we wanted our acting sd well as non diegetic sound we chose to give the audience a chance to form their own interpretation without any other influences. Instead of this we used snippets from a few soundtracks from Paranormal Activity and a lullaby as well as some diegetic sounds like the doors banging and screams to make our trailer seem as professional as possible by using both diegetic and non-diegetic music.Within our horror movie trailer the villain is played by a demon. We also have the helper who is the passer-by, who sees the victim in a fragile state and lastly the donor who is the helper and the princess which the girl who is the victim. We found that Todorov’s theory linked more with our trailer than Propp’s. This was because our horror trailer fits in with in the conventions which are associated with horror trailers which don’t challenge those ideas.
Our trailer also does not contain a lot of character as most conventional horror trailers as it adds a sense of hysteria and fear of the unknown which we wanted to convey.Lastly we wanted our trailer to be a stereotypical trailer which contained typical horror conventions. Strauss’ theory focus on the binary opposition which are known as opposite values which reveal certain focuses on media texts. For example good and evil or known and unknown, showing the concept of how the binary opposition works. Strauss doesn’t really focus on the order of the events which take place within it. He focuses much more on the arrangement of the themes. Compared to our trailer where it sticks to one theme which contain typical horror conventions.
Our initial equilibrium is the girl has a dream which quickly turns into a nightmare. Our equilibrium quickly changes into disruption where the demon she is dreaming about turning into a horrible reality, the girl tries on numerous occasions to escape this is our disequilibrium.
Another disequilibrium which is also a typical convention of a horror trailer is the lack of lighting we had within our trailer, we did this so it would make our audience feel very unnerved and want to know what's going on. When we eventually started our editing process we incorporated the opening title from our style model Paranormal Activity which reads Paramount Pictures Production. We don’t have solution or a new equilibrium as it is very unlikely with a film trailer to have a solution as it would give away the plot of the film. With Propp’s it’s mainly his theory of characters, which he has gained from most films which are the hero but they aren’t apparent in the trailer.
As a group we decided not to have any dialogue throughout our horror trailer this is because we wanted our acting sd well as non diegetic sound we chose to give the audience a chance to form their own interpretation without any other influences. Instead of this we used snippets from a few soundtracks from Paranormal Activity and a lullaby as well as some diegetic sounds like the doors banging and screams to make our trailer seem as professional as possible by using both diegetic and non-diegetic music.Within our horror movie trailer the villain is played by a demon. We also have the helper who is the passer-by, who sees the victim in a fragile state and lastly the donor who is the helper and the princess which the girl who is the victim. We found that Todorov’s theory linked more with our trailer than Propp’s. This was because our horror trailer fits in with in the conventions which are associated with horror trailers which don’t challenge those ideas.
Our trailer also does not contain a lot of character as most conventional horror trailers as it adds a sense of hysteria and fear of the unknown which we wanted to convey.Lastly we wanted our trailer to be a stereotypical trailer which contained typical horror conventions. Strauss’ theory focus on the binary opposition which are known as opposite values which reveal certain focuses on media texts. For example good and evil or known and unknown, showing the concept of how the binary opposition works. Strauss doesn’t really focus on the order of the events which take place within it. He focuses much more on the arrangement of the themes. Compared to our trailer where it sticks to one theme which contain typical horror conventions.
Sunday, 15 April 2012
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
Email sent to Paramount Studios
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Sunday, 11 March 2012
Our Initial Filming Schedule.
At the beginning of our filming production, we heavily relied on our storyboard to form our trailer as we were pretty set that these shots were the only one we needed, upon reflection we found that we added more shots and extra filler shots as the filming process went on showing that although our filming process is not a direct reflection of what we have produced we have developed our narrative using a lot more camera shots as well as our mise' on scene. We annotated our storyboard with ideas we all had s when it came to filming some extra shots we knew exactly what we wanted.
Filming Process.
Thursday, 1st March 2012 - Originally we intending to get most of the lose ends of filming finished and completed today but because of the unexpected weather condition we decided to film this morning. We filmed the remaining out door shots as well as filler shots.
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Filming Process.
Thursday, 1st March 2012 - The filming went very successful as the light began to close in at the same time as we were filming which is what we intended to do, showing that we managed to keep to schedule to what we had initially planned. The lighting is a very significant part in our trailer as it helps to create a sense of eerie and fear of the unknown, hopefully in our final trailer this is conveyed.
Sunday, 26 February 2012
Filming Process.
Sunday, 19th February 2012
Today we plan to film a selection of the outside shots. We plan to meet at 5pm, we think this would a ideal time to film the dark shots as this is round about the time when the sun begins to set. We have considered the weather conditions which have proved to not to be an issue.
Today we plan to film a selection of the outside shots. We plan to meet at 5pm, we think this would a ideal time to film the dark shots as this is round about the time when the sun begins to set. We have considered the weather conditions which have proved to not to be an issue.Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Front Cover Style Model.
For my horror magazine front cover although I chose Empire as my style model as its a very popular and successful company which specialises in the film industry. I generally chose this magazine simple because I thought it was fitting to what I wanted my final magazine cover to look like. I specifically chose this edition simply because of it's colour scheme: red, white and black. These colours commonly have connotations of death, blood and danger which is very fitting of as horror convention. As well as that the background contrasts well with the white mask making the image more central and also mysterious another feature of a horror film.
Filming Process: Horror Trailer.
Wednesday, 15th February 2012
- As a group today we plan to film the bedroom scene focusing mainly on the beginning of our horror trailer.
- We aim to film using a variety of different shots, to ensure that if some shots don't look correct or suitable we will then have a wide range to choose from.
- We will also make sure the lighting is suitable this is important as it it will maintain the continuity with our horror trailer.
Friday, 10 February 2012
Storyboard Annimatic.
This is our storyboard which we then put into a video format, we did this to show what our horror trailer will look like prior to the videoing and also gaver us an indication into what would fit in and what wouldn't be sutiable and didnt look right and we could make adjustments and improvements to it.
Thursday, 9 February 2012
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