Over the past week I have continued to explore more about horror starting with production company research to inspire us for our own production company we will be making up. As we need to use a real distribution company this time around, I think for our trailer our distribution company should be 20th Century Fox because they are a very successfully company critically and financially and have a good reputation n the film district despite not having a lot of horrors under their belt. This would give sort of something new for Fox to distribute. I have also continued to explore horror trailer and analyse them but I have also moved onto horror movie posters as we would need to create a movie poster to go along with our trailer. I have explored two to begin with, Scream and Paranormal Activity, with the latter landing in the same genre as our desired trailer, the paranormal theme as finding out in my Google Trends research the paranormal genre is slowly dying and now would be the best time to take advantage and create a trailer that would get the public interested in paranormal films again. |
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We have completed the initial storyboard for our SWEDE on The Gallows and we will start actual filming soon. In terms of the website, we have been able to film and complete our audience interviews which will help us for our overall audience research. We are also working on distribution and production company research as well as finding out top rated horrors, trends, box office and more. We have started to think about what existing trailer we should copy shot for shot (SWEDE) in preparation for the construction of our final trailer. We have analysed a few trailers but our final decision came to The Gallows as we thought it would be simple to copy and is set in a school setting which is beneficial to us. I have drawn up and annotated a basic storyboard following the event that happen in the film and picking out the most simple or important parts in the trailer, like for example the boy in the opening surrounded by darkness and the killer in the light with the boy getting hanged. In terms of the website, we have started to analyse various film magazine covers to find how they are attracted to the specific audience and how they promoted the films. We have also set up the rest of the pages in our audience and planning and will start to work on those after our swede is completed. |