Creating A Soundtrack for my trailer

I used the software garage band to create a suitable soundtrack to fit my genres repertoire (Horror).  A lot of the sounds that i added into my soundtrack were quite edgy and had suspense within them which i want to include within my trailer. To have a greater affect upon my audience.

These are the suspense sounds that you had an option from, i could also use percussion instrumental sounds, and naturalistic sounds like a thunder storm which i actually incorporated within my soundtrack. 

The wide variety of choices of sound was very useful as it enabled me to choose easily and determine which sounds would connote my codes and conventions within my horror trailer. 

Trailer

Editing of my FIlm Poster

Editing of my Movie Magazine

Final Product Movie Poster + Movie Magazine

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Evaluation Question 3 What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

Throughout my project I received different aspects of audience feedback these are 'go animate' videos which I have created in interview form which are split up into different sections

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Evaluation Question 2 How effective is the combination of your main task (trailer) and ancillary tasks (poster & magazine cover)?

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Evaluation Question 1 In what ways do your media products use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

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Secondary Research

From looking at my research you can see that the film Paranormal activity being viewed by 79% of 15-24 year old males. There is not much difference between the females and males as 47% is female and 53% is male. Similar to Paranormal Activity I would like for my products to have a balance in audience, resulting in a male and female audience, opposed to the majority of mainstream films; therefore allowing for my products to have a unique edge.

                                           

The orphanage is alike the genre of my film. Being a horror there appears to be much more of a difference between the percentage of 15-24 year old in comparison to Paranormal Activity. From The Orphanage results I can see that this film seems to have attracted males more that females, this is not what I want my film to be like as I would like it to attract a similar percentage between male and female audiences. To succeed with the results that I want, I intend to stick to my story line which is more like Paranormal Activity that The Orphanage. I feel that the male audience is particularly large for this film because the main protagonists of the film are mainly female, a factor which usually can grab a males attention, more than a females. 

Although Paranormal Activity is a film it has the appearance of a documentary, which results in a more shocking and believable effect on the audience. My products feature an equal balance between the characters and the gender in my research resulting in both being Male and Female with none of them having any kind of sexual influences or sex appeal towards the film. This is due to the fact that the genre is horror and by deliberately not including any form of sexual connotations within them, I have maintained a level of seriousness and removed any light features. 

My film tends to have a lower/middle class audience. My characters would have to have the right costume and attitude that my audience can relate to easily and feel at ease with. My trailer will have a soundtrack that will set a state of suspense and fear that will fit directly with my horror genre. 

Audience Primary Research

Questionnaire

Age Group: 15-25 [ ] 25-34 [ ] 35-44 [ ] 45+

Gender: Male [ ] Female [ ]

1.    What do you look for in a conventional horror film?

                                                                                              

                                                                               

2.    What persuades you to watch a film?

                                                                                                           

                                                                                         

3.    Hannah White is a young woman who has a troubled past who once had an identical twin called Jessica White. Both of them dealt with upfront abuse as a child as their father drank a lot of alcohol and abused them greatly. A year ago their father went crazy and tied Jessica and Hannah to a chair and set the house on fire that they lived in with Hannah escaping not being able to rescue Jessica resulting in her tragic death, she believes that ever since Jessica has been haunting her and blaming Hannah for her death. There is an endless struggle for Hannah to break free from Jessica’s anger and this film focuses on the strength of that.

What do you think of the plot of my film?

                                                                                                          

                                                                                                               

                                                                               

4.    Which of these film magazines would you much likely buy?

Why? What makes you want to buy them the most?

                                                                                                             

                                                                                        

                                                                                                  

5.    How much would you pay for a film magazine?

                 

6.    Which one of the films posters do you like best?

      

Why?

                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                    

                                                                      

What do you think of the colours, costume, props, location, etc?

                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                       

                                                        

What is the first thing that you notice about the film posters?

                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                
                                                                  

Character Research

For a long time now characters have been represented in horror films as 'evil'. In my trailer i would like to show my main character in my film to be portrayed in this way. They generally start off in the films as 'sweet and innocent' and then become 'evil'.
These are some examples of how these characters in horror films have been conventionally made up to fit the horror genre.

This is the character 'Samara' from the film 'The Ring' as you can see in the top image of her from the film she is conveyed as innocent and harmless, we can see this by the white that she is wearing and the pale skin and brushed long hair. However in the other image that we see of Samara we can see her to be very evil and a haunting character as she looks very scary ! 

Here are three other examples of characters from horror films, the first image being the character from the film the Amytiville Horror, which follows much similar themes to which i want my trailer to be like, you can clearly see that this is girl is meant to be dead as she has a gun shot wound in her head which makes her character persona more disturbing.

The second image is the character that is used in the film the omen he is made to be very pale , and this image he is looking over his shoulder in the image and the background of the image is not in focus unlike him. Showing he is the main focus of the film.

The last image is alike the boy from the omen as the character is very pale and you can see bags under his eyes that suggest that there is something wrong/haunting about the character.

Above are three movie posters shown the first is a poster for the film 'Insidious' which is a recent release, the second poster being for a film called 'orphan' which is again quite a recent release, and the last film poster that is shown is from 'the exorcist'. 

In all of the posters we see characters being perceived as dangerous beings and also we can see that they do not look like normal people in all of the posters there appears to be something wrong with all of them. I can clearly see that the characters are centrally framed and in a lot of cases this is what the poster looks like so the main focus is on that character. Alongside this factor the posters also have a colour scheme of very dark colours that fit in very well with the horror genre. 

Model Release Forms

Location Hazzard Assesment

Reece

Potential Locations

Plot/ Narrative

The plot of my story is about a young woman called Hannah White. Who has had a tormenting past regarding her family issues and her twin sister Jessica White.

The story commences with a bit of history about Hannah and her family, showing flashbacks to Hannah's past with her and Jessica being pleasant and happy children, we see them quickly grow up to be young women.
Throughout their lives we are told that their father Henry White, abuses the two girls drastically leaving them to be frail and scared.

Hannah ends up being a victim of a terrible past as her Father who suffers from mental issues and schizophrenia ends up tying the two girls two girls to a chair in their home with Hannah escaping and not being able to save her sister due to the extent of the fire.

The story commences a year later with Hannah trying to relive her life and not dwelling on her sisters death, but her sister seems to have an issue with this trying to ruin Jessica's life by haunting her in numerous occasions and when Hannah moves into her new home to start a fresh. Jessica does not allow this with numerous paranormal activities occurring in her home and unexplained situations. Until Hannah realises that it is her sister after trying a Priest to perform an exorcism in her own home and finding out it is her own twin sister.

This sends Hannah to despair we see her from wearing bright clothing and making an effort with her appearance to becoming very stressed wearing dull colours and not bothering with her hair or make-up.

The story ends tragically with her twin killing Hannah, and a squeal of the film to hopefully be released with the story of Hannah and Jessica White's tragic childhood.

Audience Research

Potential Shots

Story Boards