The ring idea?

As Our trailer is named 'CHAINED SOULS' with its double meaning, we thought it would be a good idea for us to put some sort of chained style ring on the magazine as a sticker so that our media texts can link.

After that we researched magazines with the same idea and came across the one that used it

After that we searched for rings that looked like chains to go on the cover

These are some rough and very new ideas and so we will look into it more and have an update post about how successful this was.

The music

As we all know the sound and music to a horror trailer is very important as it could be the difference from making the film actually appear scary. when doing a survey about what scares people the most, sound was one of the top answers and so this is very important in order for our trailer to be successful the sound need to be impactful. here is a short piece of music I created to go into our trailer. I used high notes which makes the music sound creepy and very repetitive rhythms that intensifies audiences as seen in horror films such as psycho.

Out cuts? .. Shots we're just not using

During the filming process, we recognised that we wouldn't of had enough clips to put in our trailer so we thought of filming an 'interview section', similar to the Blair Witch Project trailer. With this we gave an actor some dialogue saying:

"I would never visit that house, its been on the news that you shouldn't!"
"I've heard that, once you go in, you never come out" 
"I don't even want to talk about the story of Annabelle and that house"  

After doing this, and adding it into our trailer we asked Ms Ryder-Owen for feedback - her opinions and feelings towards the clip. she replied saying the following:

 "It didn't work well"

"It was filmed handheld and the camera wasn't stable"

With this feedback as a group we thought about filming this scene over but after careful consideration and the feedback given we realised that it was necessary to our trailer and didn't help tell the story well. so we decided to take this clip out.

Editing process... continued

Screen shots of editing from ellesha26


Here is a short slideshare of where we are right now as a group during the editing process of the trailer.

Feedback: 104

Tomorrow is our premiere and Shria has created a questionnaire to give out to people after the showing so we can get feedback on our trailer as whole as things we struggled on in the making of the trailer such as sound and how effective it was.

Poster Research

Researching Target Audience

This is a powerpoint I created explaining the different types of research I can undertake and how I used some of them researching horror audiences. I then put the powerpoint into slideshare.