The Evaluation
Our group decided to base our trailer on the sub-genre of slasher. This was because our target audience are teenagers and slashers appeal to teenagers because this age group is often featured in these movies as protagonists. Also, this sub- genre contains a lot of violence and blood which appeals to the young audience. During the production process, my role was to input creative ideas into the trailer and research the media for inspiration for our trailer. During the filming, I was an actress and featured in several scenes. To make full use of our lesson time, we research other horror trailers to gain some ideas and researched into the sub-genre of slasher so we understood what the generic conventions were so we could include them in our trailer. We also worked on our blogs during lesson time to plan our trailer and update any filming evaluations on the blog. This helped us during our filming time because we were reflective on our work and understood what was successful and what needed to be improved.
We researched our sub-genre of slasher thoroughly and found out that there are many conventions within this sub-genre. We included several of these conventions in our trailer such as having a psychotic masked killer who kills a group of young adults. During the end, the killer is always unmasked and viewers get to find out who the killer is and we used this convention in our trailer. Another generic convention is that the weapon of choice is often some sort of blade. We used a knife as our weapon of choice in the trailer to fit with this convention. The American slasher movie ‘Scream’ influenced our trailer because it fitted with our chosen sub-genre and we both had the same target audience. We were influenced by the scenes in ‘Scream’ of the serial killer killing the young girl and chasing her. We liked this scene because it was exciting and got the viewers engaged into the scene. It also makes the trailer more thrilling. During the pre-production, I researched existing slasher trailers to help plan for our trailer and get some ideas and inspiration. I also produced a working title for the trailer to engage viewers and this gave me a better understanding of our trailer because I was able to summarise it in a couple of sentences. Moreover, I helped produce a storyboard of our trailer. This was helpful because it gave our group a visual understanding of how our trailer will take place and what will happen in it. Our filming was successful because we included many different shots such as point of view shots and tracking shots which made the trailer more exciting and engaging. Our trailer was mostly based outside of school which could have been a problem however we overcame this by spending our lesson time evaluating and researching. This allowed us to be more independent. Some problems we faced during our filming was coming up with ideas of what to film and sticking to the concept of the trailer. We decided on sound effects by listening to other trailers to get some ideas about what sound effects will work well. We then listened to some music and sound effects together as a group and decided which ones will work best with our trailer. Our trailer is called ' The Annonymous' because our killer is masked therefore he is unknown. We felt that this name will emphasise that the killer can be anyone, usually someone close to you.
Overall, I think our trailer is up to a good standard as we have used many skills to put our trailer together however I think our trailer could be improved too. We worked well as a group which is the main reason why I think we produced a successful trailer. We didn’t break any horror conventions because we wanted to follow the conventions as our target audience is familiar with the conventions and using them will maximise views. Our killer was represented as a serial killer who hides his identity with a white mask and boiler suit. His weapon of choice was a knife which follows the slasher generic conventions. In our trailer we represented the youth as social able and fun as they were put with their friends and socialising. Our target audience for this trailer is teenagers. I think our trailer was successful in reaching out to our target audience because our victims are teenagers so they can relate to them. Additionally, our scenes were shot in locations where teenagers hang out such as parks. This will keep teenagers engaged as they will be familiar with the locations and will scare them more as killings are happening in the film where they hang out. To conclude, the main skills I will take away from this filming project is editing skills on a mac which will be extremely useful to me in any future film making, how to engage a target audience and appeal to them through your filming and learning about different camera shots so in future filming I can use these shots to make my filming more interesting with a variety of camera angles.
Our group decided to base our trailer on the sub-genre of slasher. This was because our target audience are teenagers and slashers appeal to teenagers because this age group is often featured in these movies as protagonists. Also, this sub- genre contains a lot of violence and blood which appeals to the young audience. During the production process, my role was to input creative ideas into the trailer and research the media for inspiration for our trailer. During the filming, I was an actress and featured in several scenes. To make full use of our lesson time, we research other horror trailers to gain some ideas and researched into the sub-genre of slasher so we understood what the generic conventions were so we could include them in our trailer. We also worked on our blogs during lesson time to plan our trailer and update any filming evaluations on the blog. This helped us during our filming time because we were reflective on our work and understood what was successful and what needed to be improved.
We researched our sub-genre of slasher thoroughly and found out that there are many conventions within this sub-genre. We included several of these conventions in our trailer such as having a psychotic masked killer who kills a group of young adults. During the end, the killer is always unmasked and viewers get to find out who the killer is and we used this convention in our trailer. Another generic convention is that the weapon of choice is often some sort of blade. We used a knife as our weapon of choice in the trailer to fit with this convention. The American slasher movie ‘Scream’ influenced our trailer because it fitted with our chosen sub-genre and we both had the same target audience. We were influenced by the scenes in ‘Scream’ of the serial killer killing the young girl and chasing her. We liked this scene because it was exciting and got the viewers engaged into the scene. It also makes the trailer more thrilling. During the pre-production, I researched existing slasher trailers to help plan for our trailer and get some ideas and inspiration. I also produced a working title for the trailer to engage viewers and this gave me a better understanding of our trailer because I was able to summarise it in a couple of sentences. Moreover, I helped produce a storyboard of our trailer. This was helpful because it gave our group a visual understanding of how our trailer will take place and what will happen in it. Our filming was successful because we included many different shots such as point of view shots and tracking shots which made the trailer more exciting and engaging. Our trailer was mostly based outside of school which could have been a problem however we overcame this by spending our lesson time evaluating and researching. This allowed us to be more independent. Some problems we faced during our filming was coming up with ideas of what to film and sticking to the concept of the trailer. We decided on sound effects by listening to other trailers to get some ideas about what sound effects will work well. We then listened to some music and sound effects together as a group and decided which ones will work best with our trailer. Our trailer is called ' The Annonymous' because our killer is masked therefore he is unknown. We felt that this name will emphasise that the killer can be anyone, usually someone close to you.
Overall, I think our trailer is up to a good standard as we have used many skills to put our trailer together however I think our trailer could be improved too. We worked well as a group which is the main reason why I think we produced a successful trailer. We didn’t break any horror conventions because we wanted to follow the conventions as our target audience is familiar with the conventions and using them will maximise views. Our killer was represented as a serial killer who hides his identity with a white mask and boiler suit. His weapon of choice was a knife which follows the slasher generic conventions. In our trailer we represented the youth as social able and fun as they were put with their friends and socialising. Our target audience for this trailer is teenagers. I think our trailer was successful in reaching out to our target audience because our victims are teenagers so they can relate to them. Additionally, our scenes were shot in locations where teenagers hang out such as parks. This will keep teenagers engaged as they will be familiar with the locations and will scare them more as killings are happening in the film where they hang out. To conclude, the main skills I will take away from this filming project is editing skills on a mac which will be extremely useful to me in any future film making, how to engage a target audience and appeal to them through your filming and learning about different camera shots so in future filming I can use these shots to make my filming more interesting with a variety of camera angles.
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