Test shot Edited

Test Shot: Example of Trailer

Above is a video that I edited featuring a variety of different shots filmed with my phone camera that we intend to use for our horror movie teaser trailer. I decided to record this to see what angles would work for the trailer. There were many other shots I had filmed but I only used the angles that I thought worked the best. This helped me to finalize the storyboard, as I was initially confused as to how to place the camera shots/angles.

Test Shot

This was my first shot i had ever tried out. Basically we were in class looking at how shots are taken from different angles to show the same thing but what is happening in the shot is fake. When taking this I had to explain to the actors that the slap is not meant to be real, but i will make a clapping sound with my hands to make it more realistic.

Film Certificate - BBFC

The British Board of Film Certificates is a non-governmental organisation, which is funded by the film industry, and is responsible for the national classification of UK films. The BBFC would rate films, video games, and video/DVD releases based on what is suitable to a certain audience. Subjects that are most commonly considered when deciding on the age rating includes the violent content, the language used, the sexual content, and drug use. The certificates issued by the BBFC are as followed:

U (Universal)  -  All ages, nothing unsuitable for children over 4

PG (Parental Guidance)  -  All ages, some scenes may be unsuitable for under 8s

12  -  This is only for home media since 2002. Can include infrequent drugs, infrequent use of strong language, brief nudity, discreet sexual activity, and moderate violence.

12A  -  This rating is only used for cinema releases and was introduced in 2002. Under 12s are allowed permitted if accompanied with an adult over 18, and tends to contain themes of discrimination, soft drugs, mild swear words, and moderate violence/sexual references.

15  -  Can contain adult themes, hard drugs, strong language, moderate-strong violence/sex references, and mild non-detailed sex activity.

18  -  Hard drugs are generally allowed, and strong violence/sex references along with strong sexual activity is also allowed. Scenes of strong real sex may be permitted if justified by the context.

R18 (Restricted 18)  -  Only showed at licensed cinemas or sex shops. More cuts are demanded in this category than any other category  as it contains stronger sexual and violent scenes.

Our age rating...

We have decided to give our film trailer an 18 certificate, as the trailer will feature scenes of violent nature and hard drug use. Horror movies tend to have the 15 or 18 certificates because of this content, and so we are following this common conventions with our chosen certificate.

The Storyboard for Our Trailer

Treatment

Treatment

We have chosen a working title which we think will suit for the film. The title is ‘Red Ink.’ However we did have other names that we thought could work, therefore there may be a change of the working title during the production and post production of the trailer.

We have also decided on a production team name. The production team name is ‘SLAM Productions.’ ‘SLAM’ acronyms the first letter of our names. When we came up with the name, we all liked it and chose to stick with it.

The format of our teaser trailer will be on film as well as a video. We have decided to do two formats because we would like to make our trailer available on video-streaming websites, such as YouTube.

Our teaser trailer was originally of the slasher genre, but we later found that the story of drawings coming to life is more of a supernatural genre, and so we decided to combine these two sub genres to create a hybrid.

The length of our teaser trailer should be a maximum of roughly 40 seconds. This is a convention that we are following.

The film is about a boy who has a hobby of drawing and this always takes place in a dark room under a spot light. The pictures that he draws seems to come alive and into action. That is what the story is basically about but within our trailer, the boy is going to be sitting in his desk drawing a picture. There will be pictures on the walls that have been previously drawn. He is then drawing a picture, which comes to life. The room becomes empty and a girl walks into the scene. She walks to the table and she picks up the drawing that was left on the table. The drawing is of the girl herself, getting attacked. This comes to life where someone appears from behind her, grabbing her, about to attack her then the scene cuts.

So far, we noticed that people between the ages of 17-24 like slasher horror films and can be proven through our audience research. Therefore we have chosen our target audience to be for the ages of 17-24. We will be finalising this for definite after evaluating on our results of our audience research and receiving more information on why this would be our target audience.

Props that will be used include:

- Costumes
- Killer – Blacked out wearing a hoddie/cape
- Boy – Dark casual clothes/normal looking
- Girl – tank top, jeans; attractive appearance
- Props
- Table – wooden
- Lamp
- Paper
- Knife
- Chair – wooden
- Make up – Blood, cuts
Examples of the props that we will me using have been explained on our blog. This is Just a rough idea of what we will be using. 

Audience Research by Paper

Audience Research

Gender: Male

Age: 23

Interests: Sports, gaming, music, films, social networking.

1.      Do you like horror?

-          Yes.

2.      What horror genre scares you the most?

-          Psychological.

3.      How often do you watch horror films?

-          Once in a while.

4.      What is your favourite horror film?

-          Paranormal Activity.

5.      What would scare you in a horror film?

-          Nothing.

6.      Do you prefer the “unknown” attacking or do you prefer seeing the gore?

-          The gore!

7.      How would you define the horror genre?

-          The blood, killing, terror and violence.

8.      Do you think the music used in horror is more effective or less effective than the actual horrific scenes?

-          Music definitely plays a big part, if there was no music you wouldn’t be able to get into the film and the horror genre would seem pointless.

9.      How would you create a “scary” atmosphere in a horror teaser trailer?

-          Low lighting, creepy music or something like a sudden movement/ action that would startle the viewer.

10.  Do you think horror teaser trailers are scarier than the actual film?

-          Not really, the real horror begins in the film. If the teaser trailer was scarier, it would be giving too much away.



For my audience research, I used a common method of pen and paper. I chose to use this method as I prefer to write down my questions/ answers and then be able to edit them on the paper because I may delete or forget questions I wanted to ask I used Microsoft Word.