Picture Perfect

The Abandoned

This poster reminds me of the loss of innocence. The porcelain doll, is a symbol of childhood, but becasue it is shattered and cracked it shows broken child hood. They have used colour to specifically draw your eye to the eye with a tear of blood. This image also connects with the title 'abandoned' becasue there is often a theme when people move out of a house there is a doll or toy left behinhd that gradually builds up dust.

Autopsy
This is a very modern film poster by keeping the backgroud white it focuses the attention on the legs and text, it also is a signifier of the clean sterile setting of the hospital. When i first looked at this poster initially i didn't notice that the legs were cut off, so it allows the audience to look closer and examine the poster more seriously. However, when looking at this poster it has a slight comedic feel which may suggest it is a spoof rather than just a horror.


Saw III
This poster is the from the third film in the Saw series. Similarly to the Autopsy poster is uses a white background, however, the bottom of this poster uses darker tones that do not give promote the idea of the setting being sterile. The saw at the top of the poster, is used to create an uncomfortable feeling in the audience, it's rusty and dirty, which is clearly nothing you want to be associated with removing teeth, which is linked at the lower third of the poster. This creators of this poster has specifically used Golden section to hint to the audience the conventions of this film.

Post a poster

Well, during my free I thought I would do a bit of poster research. We were having a chat about this earlier and Nat suggested our poster be really subdue colours so that it could make a impact that connotes darkness.

This poster that I have uploaded below is not in black/grey/white but has dark colours and the visual image is quite striking.

However, I don't think we could do a poster like this only because we have two principal characters so the poster would have to feature both. However I did have an idea that maybe we could have one of the girls at the front of the pictures and the other blurred looking at the first girl. Its only an idea but maybe we could develop it when we start designing our poster.

Another thing that has made me think about this poster was that its quite a teaser poster as the girl's mouth is blanked out and you don't know why this is, which gives an element of mystery.

Helena

Wonderland

I was looking at different teaser trailers as a bit more research and I came across this teaser trailer for Tim Burton's 'Alice in wonderland'


What struck me about this teaser trailer is that the beginning is quite similar to ours. It is a continuous scene until there is a shift in the atmosphere something changes. Fast cuts are then introduced, like ours again.

Looking at this I hope ours can be as effective as this teaser trailer. I think we will have to be very careful about the choice of music as this teaser trailer made a good choice of non-diegetic background music.

Tonight Jack, Nat and I are filming the scenes that dont invole the actors. We are going to make fake blood using a recipe we found on Wiki How


We will update on how filming went later

Helena

Initial Questionnaire on SurveyMonkey

A short while ago, Helena and I created a questionnaire which helped us choose the genre of the teaser trailer for the project. This is the first questionnaire and the purpose of it is to help us narrow down our research for more specific codes and conventions of the genre we finally chose.

If you are willing to be involved in our research then please click here. The questionnaire has been uploading to SurveyMonkey which we have chosen to use because it is easy to create and easy to edit our questionnaire, all of our responses are collected in one place and it will provide us with detailed statistics about the choices you, the audience, have provided! All information gathered is confidential and will not be shared under the Data Protection Act 1998, see Part 1.2.

If you would like to share the link with your friends then please provide them http://bit.ly/15pXlb which will forward them to SurveyMonkey. We'd really appreciate it.

We will be posting the link on various social networking sites to spread the word. Thank you.

Jack

Few ideas to throw around...

In our most recent media lesson the four of us played with a few ideas for narratives for our teaser trailer.
John Hartley believed that "genre are agents of idealogical closure - they limit the meaning/potential of a given text" - (O'Sullican et al. 1994,128).
As a reflection of this, I decided to do some research into the horror genre and its' codes and conventions. I suggest that we make sure we continue to return to these to make sure our teaser trailer clearly portrays the genre we have chosen!

1. A fear of death is always present in a horror film
2. Binary oppositions of good versus evil
3. Fear created in a horror film is based on our most deep, instintive fears e.g. paranoia that someone is always watching you, fear of the unknown, vunerability etc.
4. A collapse of moral order
5. May include violence/gore
6. May explore taboo subjects such as the corruption of children and innocence
7. Continue to play on the minds of the viewers even after watching the film
8. Plays on the dread/suspense the audience feels as watching

So there you have it (: also, the four of us came up with a few ideas for narratives so will put them up here too. They are very vague so far and so we will continue this week to develop these ideas:

1. Plot 1 - a camping/holiday trip going wrong
2. Plot 2 - clown based horror
3. Plot 3 - sleepover based horror
4. Plot 4 - a news bulletin on a monster based pandemic
5. Plot 5 - friendships that are not as they appear

Still, other ideas may also come to us as we continue to discuss in class so watch this space!

Stef

and that's what gets results...

Jack and I met up to sort out all things media on monday, and after watching some extremely bad trailers we've realized we are going to have to be careful, because by doing a horror film trailer it can easily turn into something comedic rather than something scary! This can be done in a multitude of ways including:

1. Unrealistic special effects
2. Poor make-up
3. Poor acting

Natalie

It came from cyber-space

Recently we've been thinking about the different themes we could explore in our teaser trailer. One idea we have been thinking about is to do with clowns in a horror film, reminiscent of horror films around the 1980's.

Examples of some films are:

• The Blob (1988) - A remake of the 50's film.
• Cat People (1982)
• An American Werewolf in London (1981)
• Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
• The Lost Boys (1987)
• The Shining (1980)

All themes to think about

Nat