Faisa's evaluation.

 The evaluation.

Our group know what we’d like to expect out of a horror trailer, this has helped us to share our ideas and make this trailer an exciting one. My role was to be the person who chooses the props and where we were going to film; so I had to decide the perfect location for our trailer. I was also one of the actors this has helped me to play a big part in this trailer also helped me to get a good grade. I have been doing some work on our group blog so far I have completed our locations, script and all the health and safety issues we decided to make our trailer a slasher; this is because it will go perfectly with our target audience of teenagers. As we are teenagers ourselves we would have to face. This has helped me to gain a good knowledge of how a trailer would be made also gave our group the opportunity to share all our ideas and do each a part on blog individually.

Knowing allot about the horror genre has helped me to know what to expect whilst filming. Doing a horror film I’d know that you’d need it to scare your audience, you’d need to film in places that are dark and mysterious for example a park at night time this gives the frightening effect on our audience this is why we have chosen to film at a park when it’s dark.  I also know that you’d need some sort of villain/murderer; that’s why we have choses for there to be a killer who goes around killing people. You would also nee victims who get killed or get hurt in some way. This is all the conventions you’d need to prepare a horror film. My group used all these things this has helped us to make a horror film an effective one, one that our target audience will really enjoy.  My group were inspired by the movie ‘scream’ which is a sub-genre of a slasher we will also use some of the elements used here in our own, this is why we named our trailer 'the anonymous'. we named our trailer the anonymous because the killer is wearing a mask so no-one would know who it is this also links to ur sub-genre of a slasher. using the movie scream to inspire us will make its easier for us to use the elements used in that trailer to make ours just as good.  We planned our trailer by splitting the roles up within our group we done this buy having me as the one who chooses the props and costumes, locations and one of the actors. We had Naimah as the one with the creative input and do all the research also one of the actors. Waseem was the group leader and an actor and finally Yahaea was the director and camera man. By taking different roles this has helped us to do some extra work individually and post it on our blog, before we done anything we’d have a discussion and decide on the best ideas and then take different roles individually. We also done a story board and created our pitch and how it would look when we would film. Before we done all of this we had a booklet each called the production booklet this has helped us to gain an idea of what we would be doing as we start to plan and film. Our group has started filming; we still have some left to complete. However I would say that the filming was really good we got most of the footage we needed and this will help us

to make our trailer the best.  We could’ve improved our filming by filming when it wasn’t too dark; the camera we were using did not have good quality this makes it hard for us to watch over and not have a clear view of what is happening. This also helps us know that next time we should do it when it’s not too dark. We faced some problems whilst editing. One problem we faced was making the scene lighter so we could see what was going on. Deciding what soundtrack we were going to use for our trailer was easy because we watched allot of trailers beforehand and used the track we like from some. The track we used is called ‘scary music’. We chose this track specifically because the beat which comes with it gives the audience excitement whilst watching it and this is the sort of affect we want to have on our audience.

 

To conclude, I believe that our trailer was good but not great there are still things that we could improve on; for example some scenes are too dark to see what’s actually going on. My favourite shot from our trailer is when the killer does a double turn around, this is because it shocks the audience when they see a repeat of the same shot. We did not break any horror conventions because we wanted to follow the rules of how to make a trailer with all the conventions we needed. We linked our trailer to teenagers we done this by showing us going out and living the normal teenage life; this will help us link our trailer to our target audience effectively. Our killer was shown as a serial stabber we done this by following all the conventions; for example in our trailer the killer would always be dressed up so no one would know who he is until they watch the film this encourages our target audience to go watch the film.  I believe our trailer was successful enough to reach our target audience because our victims were teenagers so our audience could relate to them. Finally, the main lessons I took from filming was that; in the future I would know how to use a camera for a sort film also how to edit it and add all the things you would need for a film. This has helped me gain another skill of using different camera shots.