Thriller film trailers

The Roommate 
After we decided to change our film genre and the animatic we the done further research into our new genre which was thriller but instead of doing a thriller such as saw, nightmare on elm street we decided as a group to go for a more psychological thriller where it takes a more logical approach in working out who is the antagonist is and letting short clips of what would be shown in the trailer not give too much of the storyline away. When looking at this film trailer we got gripped into the story line and then from there decided that we wanted to make a film trailer that was influenced by this film. We also became easily hooked into the story line, this showed us how we would then later be able to hook our audience making them, then want to go out and watch the whole film themselves. Going on to the more editorial side of the trailer we accounted for many cuts both fast paced when adding tension and then at a slower pace to portray a calmer feeling amongst the viewers this hen allowed the fast paced cuts to build the tension back up and get the audience on the edge of their seats, this was a key concept of the film that we then wanted to take into account for our own trailer. Another key feature that we wanted to use also was that both the main characters look like good looking average girls which made it harder to see where the film was going and made us shocked at the direction it took, we thought this was a good quality as the audience see a killer being have a certain look, whereas this took longer to work out. The titles in the film are on black backgrounds that suggest something dark and sinister with the sense of not knowing then this feeling seems to get taken away somewhat with the white titles that can seem to suggest purity and the pureness, these titles can seem to be not conventional as we would conventionally see usually red titles that suggest blood so they have gone against the convention and in this case it has seemed to have worked well.

Obsessed

we liked this film trailer due to the fact it had a stalker affect, the way in which we see, the blonde women become more and more obsessed with the man. The way in which we also see the storyline progress through the trailer. The way in which the fast paced cuts in the beginning of the trailer get you more into the trailer than what you would if the cuts were slow paced, in the first couple of cuts we see an establishing shots of different landmarks, this showing us where the film is set. From this it goes into white titles on a black screen with the titles turning to a pink colour this could symbolise the purity of the white turning to the passion of the pink colour. These titles give parts of the storyline away and also helps to understand what is going on within the cuts and the trailer. From the original fast paced cuts they then going into slower paced cuts to show the story unfold then they go back into fast paced cuts when  we see the female fighting this is to keep the audience locked in and to stop them thinking is boring. Throughout the trailer we hear the use of diegetic and no diegetic sounds, the diegetic sounds come from conversations within the trailer between characters this makes us the character feel involved. the non diegetic sounds come from the background music here we hear a heart beat this raises concern, also the other non diegetic music is used to keep make the audience sit on the edge of their seats with them wanting to know what is going to happen. Overall I think this trailer works well and is conventional in most parts except for the two female characters when you expect to see a more male dominated genre who is seen as the stalker and the titles.       

Animatic

By creating this animatic it has allowed in the helping in our planning process as it will allow us to see what the end product will be, how to edit it and also what we will need to also include. We added music to create a sinister effect that links in with the genre we then realised after we watched the animatic we did not create the music that is long enough so we need to extend it. As we only have straight cuts when it comes to our actual editing we will use editing techniques such as fades and dissolves, we also have used titles within the animatic. This animatic has allowed us to work out in more depth on what we need to improve on to get a higher grade. By comparing our animatic to possible film trailers of the thriller genre opened us as a group to an insight of how and what we need to do to make our film genre as obvious as possible.

Change Of Film Genre

After receiving feedback from our questionnaire about our film trailer, we found out that not many people around our target audience age would go and see the film so this was one of our deciding factors of changing from the genre of social realism to a thriller as more people would enjoy watching the film. Another deciding factor of us changing the genre was that our film locations were too basic and was majority in the same location, when looking at actual film trailers we found that there was various locations and this is one quality we did not originally have. After we looked at the down falls we had with the social realism films we started to research thriller trailers and we found this a better genre to complete. We changed some of our ideas based along the film trailer roommate and fish tank, this we found interested more of our target audience. Once we decided this, we then reprinted different questionnaires changing them to fit around our new genre and about the new trailer, we then received more positive feedback.

Timeline of Shank film trailer

Whilst watching the film trailer Shank to help plan my timeline for my groups film trailer I looked at how they used the one minute twenty-four seconds of their trailer. I chose to use this film trailer as it is under the genre of social realism and that is the genre of the film trailer my group would like to make. Overall there is a total of one hundred and forty one cuts through out the trailer. In the first five seconds there is a total of six cutes and the fist five seconds in include four titles that include institutions and other narrative information about the film. From five to twelve seconds there is seven cuts and in these cuts we get some narrative about the film and two characters are introduced this could suggest that they are the two characters that the film is primarily based around as they are introduced first. Then from twelve to twenty-two seconds there are sixteen cuts and within these cuts we see more narrative titles along with sound bridge of dialogue. A sound bridge of dialogue is where we hear a person talking and at first we assume  it is a voice over but we see that it goes to seeing someone talking in the next scene/cut this links the two cuts together. Between twenty-two to twenty-eight seconds there is twenty-three cuts, in these cuts there are narrative titles, a introduction into more characters and this time it is gangs that will take another lead role throughout the film. We also see the use of another sound bridge to link the two separate scenes. From twenty-eight seconds to forty-six seconds we see 16 cuts this suggests that there is less action between the eighteen second gap as there is less cuts then the previous gap before. At forty-six seconds we see another narrative title each telling the audience more and more about the film trailer and the storyline. In the next three second gap from forty-six seconds to forty-nine seconds we see three cuts and one includes another narrative title. Between fort-nine and fifty-two seconds we see seven cuts and two narrative film titles. Next from fifty-two seconds to one minute four seconds we witnessed fifteen cuts and at one minute four seconds we see another title but this a title of one of the stars included in the film. This is used to entice people to watch the film if they know the star from previous films, this helps attract more of an audience. The next title that includes a stars name is at one minute five seconds between the previous one at one minute four to this one there is a total of two cuts in the space of one second. Again at one minute six seconds there is yet again another title including a stars name that features in the film and agin we see two cuts, our next title is at one minute seven seconds and through the one second gap we only see one cut and again it is a title of a star that is in the film Shank. Between the last pause at one minute seven seconds the next one I stopped at one minute thirteen seconds and between this time there was sixteen cuts and at exactly one minute thirteen we see a title again but this title is the one that tells us the films name. The next pause is at one minute sixteen seconds after three seconds we see two cuts and at one minute sixteen seconds we see yet again other title of narrative about the film. We see from there to one minute seventeen seconds three cuts and another narrative title linked to the one before at one minute sixteen seconds. After two seconds taking us from one minute seventeen seconds to one minute nineteen seconds there is two cuts and at one minute nineteen seconds there is another narrative title about when the film is out to allow the audience to know when to go to see it. Finally at one minute twenty-two seconds see the billing board this stays in focus for two seconds which takes us the the end of the trailer but between one minute nineteen seconds to one minute twenty-two seconds we see four cuts this suggests that the action has faded out towards the end.
Overall there is eighteen titles and one billing block through out the one minute twenty-four seconds social realism film trailer Shank.

Plans For Our Film Magazine and Poster

This image shows our idea's in which we have suggested for both film poster and our film magazine. 

Both are similar as the cover of each shall include each three main characters. 

For this film poster we chose to plan it portait, This would look different to the a landscpae poster as it would be more square based but more pushed together. By planning the film poster in both ways it has given us two different choices, i like the landscape layout as it is different and not many film posters are used this way accept as bilboards. Yet the portrait layout looks more realsistic and could be much bolder and stronger looking when targeting the target audience.

Both of these two image shows two different layouts of our film poster. The second image shows a rough layout of how the poster would look being at a  landscape layout. This poster shows the titles at the top i.e. actors who are starring within the film, the three characters in the centre but used across the whole page and then the film title placed at the bottom of the poster.

Final Film Ideas

This is our final film idea. We decided to contribute together two film ideas which will make the genre of our film social realism, we decided on linking together idea one which was a story of mean girls and how they bully linked with idea 4 on gangs and killing. These linked together will work well and add tension, yet we will add another twist which shall be making the rest of the school/ year group hate the three popular girls. We have also  written down the information of our film narrative and the use of locations, characters, costume, camera angles and extra techniques we shall involve.

initial film ideas

We came up with four basic film ideas. We decided on idea number one, even though it is very similar to the real mean girls movie we have decided to change the genre and storyline.