Planning of filming locations and lighting

I created this presentation on the website PowToon and uploaded it onto Youtube to embed it onto my blog. 

Creating the Production Company...

Creating the company from lydiag2

Sound Track inspirations for trailer:

Music is a key aspect of horror films, often used to create atmosphere and enhance certain emotions of the characters. Often, long suspensful notes are used to build tension and build up to a big event and then when the event happens, the music changes to short, sharp notes to help further shock the audience. Lots of voices are used in horror films to reflect fear and realism. Sound effects could include such things as echoed voices, giving a ghostly feel or classic sounds such as crows, bats, church bells and witches cackling. I have been browsing youtube a lot to try and find a sound track for my trailer in which the lyrics and image will be relevant and tie in. I have found some that I really like and will strongly consider using:

I feel like the chorus of this sound track could be really effective to use in my trailer. I feel the lyrics could link very well to Adams character profile and I can adjust it to fit the narrative. Instead of Adam just knowing Nicole at High School she could have been his disastrous 'First Love'. The line 'you better run now' and 'playing for fun' is really creepy, fitting into my narrative of Adam making Nicole his life size doll. The females high pitch voice could work really well with some editing all based round Adam, because it puts the listener into quite a trance. It build up suspense and causes excitement for the audience as they prepare for some action.

Full Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/dashberlin/manontherun.html

Lyrics relevant to my trailer:
It's such a travesty
The way you say our love should be
Yeah, such a tragedy
Think you can just break my heart and leave me
Well, you better run now
Man on the run
Playing for fun
Wind me up
Leave me undone

Another track i've found and would like to consider using are these:

This Kate Bush track is also appropriate for my trailer therefore its a possibility, certain parts of the lyrics can also be used to suit by trailer. The voice is the most creepy part of this sound track, she has high pitched vocals which are quite trancing. This could be effective for scenes inside the house, something Adam might put on in the background so its diegetic sound as its part of the scene.

I really like this second one because it can be used quite multi-purposely, it would be a good consistent one. Despite this video being 56 minutes long, the sound that is built up throughout it, by adding different intrumsents, increases the intensity which i feel could suit the narrative of my trailer. It would also fit well the the thriller genre type music that i have listened to whilst researching. I think this could be effective to use after my voice commentary and despite originally wanting lyrics in the sound track I feel this is really effective without any distracting influences. 

Plot Narrative

The Plot Narrative and Theories from lydiag2

Brainstorm on Narratives, Shots, Sound, Props and Locations

http://imm.to/AdY95- To see my mind map through the site, here is the link, below I have provided a screenshot. I found brainstorming some of my ideas allowed me too make decisions on what i want to use and the purpose of it; the effect it will have on the viewers and why it will suit my genre. I found this activity was particulary helpful for looking at shots and camera angles, as I went into detail why each shot was effective and why i might want to use it.

Focus Group Video

Analysis of my Focus Group:

I had 5 student participants in my focus group, aged 17-18, which fits within the age group my trailer is going to be targeted at. I included a mixed group of males and females, to avoid gender bias and instead analyse both answers in order to make my trailer appeal to both genders. The focus group were great discussing and voicing there opinions and this will really help me in the planing and production of my trailer, I will analyse each of there answers below to give me a clearer picture of how the results have been summarized.

1- Do you prefer horror or thriller films? Or a hybrid horror/thriller?

This question was important to see if i was targeting my questions at the right mixture of people, because they had different opinions and answer i felt the hybrid genre was a good choice and suitable to question this group of people. They commented they preferred the narrative of a thriller because it was more psychological, giving them things to think about and consider. They felt horrors could get boring, as they're all quite the same, which makes horror films quite predictable. 

2- Do you prefer the trailer to give away a lot or a little?

The main answer here was that the focus group preferred the trailer to give away a little, but would like to include some of the peak bits of the narrative in order to excite and engage the viewers. Overall it was decided, the right balance needed to be acheived for the trailer to fulfill its purpose of attracting the audience. 

3- What codes and conventions do you expect to see in a horror film?

-Intense music-

-fast pace editing-

-blood and gore-

-low key lighting-

-colour representation- dark, dull gloomy colours (reds/blacks)- 

4- Do the codes and conventions of a horror differ from a thriller?

-horror conventions more set-

-differentiate one thriller from another-

-editng is different-

-they both however often have dark, sinister storylines-

-low key lighting-

-colour representations,dark, dull gloomy colours-

5- What locations do you expect to see in a) horror b) thriller?

Horror:

Abandoned houses

Road-Trips

Isolated Locations

Woods

Graveyards

secluded mansions

Thriller:

more modern story line so locations need to be more realistic, fit into everyday life so the narrative becomes more believable and has a sense of realism.

6- Is the film rating important when watching these genre films?

Overall, people found the age rating only meant the content would be deemed inappropriate for younger audience and this mainly included violence and language therefore they felt the age rating of an 18, wouldn't be any more scary then a 12. 

7- Favourite films!!

-Sinister-

-The Shining-

-The Conjuring-

-Silence of the Lambs-

-Psycho-

-Dr. strange love-

8- What do you expect to see in the narrative of these genres?

Jump scares!! 

Fake scares, to build the audience up to put them on the edge of their seat.

Varying opinions of whether it should be based on a true story

Progress Log- Reviewing genres

I have recorded myself reviewing genres options and posted it online onto sound cloud, here is the direct link to the audio: https://soundcloud.com/user695666251/reviewing-genres

Distribution and Marketing Trailers