I made a questionnaire and handed it out to 15 people therefore having 15 questionnaires, My results from questionnaire showed me a number of things;
Within horror films people like the parts that make you jump, the parts where you don't know what is going to happen next and finally parts where tension builds.
Psychological and Supernatural horror are generally chosen. This is because people like to be excited and want something different to happen and would like a horror movie that didn't necessarily conform to the conventions.
The female character came out on top when asked 'Which character do you expect to get hurt?'. This is because they feel that the female comes across are the innocent character who always does something that she should do.
Filming late afternoon or early into the night was popular as it gives the movie a sense of mysteriousness and the fact that the dark stereotyped as being more dangerous and of course the sense of not knowing whats there, as it's to dark to see.
My chosen locations for filming are conventional of the horror genre, big open spaces, woods and creepy old houses. I believe this is because you never know whats going to happen and essentially there isn't anywhere to run or hide.
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Inital Ideas!
When I got given the task of making a horror movie trailer I was curious as to how I could successfully convey the themes of fear without it being completely obvious.
I had the idea of a young innocent girl, making her way home from ballet class and decided to take the shortcut through the woods. The woods her parents always tell her to stay away from. She makes the decision to go through them anyway and soon realises it was a bad decision.
I personally get scared at horror movies when I cannot see whats happening, I can just hear it, therefore this is something I wanted to imply in my work. The idea of the senses being engaged. I want to try as show leaves ruffling, people whistling and no one actually being there, to create the sense the girl is essentially hearing things.
I will conduct a questionnaire to see if my audience like my ideas for setting and to see what scares them so I can try and appeal to them throughout my trailer.
I had the idea of a young innocent girl, making her way home from ballet class and decided to take the shortcut through the woods. The woods her parents always tell her to stay away from. She makes the decision to go through them anyway and soon realises it was a bad decision.
I personally get scared at horror movies when I cannot see whats happening, I can just hear it, therefore this is something I wanted to imply in my work. The idea of the senses being engaged. I want to try as show leaves ruffling, people whistling and no one actually being there, to create the sense the girl is essentially hearing things.
I will conduct a questionnaire to see if my audience like my ideas for setting and to see what scares them so I can try and appeal to them throughout my trailer.
Friday, 6 January 2012
Typical conventions of Magazine covers
Magazine Cover Conventions;
- Barcode, with issue number, date and prize of magazine.
- A central image; usally a well known celebrity with appeal to attract audiences.
- Masthead; Magazines title.
- Banners.
- Cover stories.
- Pugs.
- Polaroid Images; generally indicating new films.
- Unique Selling Points; 'The coolest films 2011'.
- A colour pallet of generally three - four colours.
- Weblink.
- Insight into films genre.
- Barcode, with issue number, date and prize of magazine.
- A central image; usally a well known celebrity with appeal to attract audiences.
- Masthead; Magazines title.
- Banners.
- Cover stories.
- Pugs.
- Polaroid Images; generally indicating new films.
- Unique Selling Points; 'The coolest films 2011'.
- A colour pallet of generally three - four colours.
- Weblink.
- Insight into films genre.
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