The evaluation

My group has based our horror trailer around the sub-genre slasher; we have chosen this because we felt like this was the only one that mainly appealed to more off a wider range of audiences so effectively we could get more people watching it.  We have chosen the slahser because it contains a lot of violence and a mysterious and it is imaginary way of killing which leaves the audience in suspense. We also felt like this subgenre was more effective because we do not need much advanced effects and technology to make it a good trailer but, this subgenre also comes with disadvantages which is that we have to use fake knifes and less appealing costumes if we have not used it in a appropriate way we could lose some audiences. However, the other subgenres would have been harder and would have had needed a much more advanced and complicated story line. Through the filming production process, my role was to be the slasher and also the main character, I volunteered to take this role because I feel that I preform best and this role and it enables me to get the best out of me. In addition, I also chose this role because I am confident in acting skills I wanted to make a major contribution in my group activity. I am also have another job in the group is that after we fully finish out filming I would be one of the main people who edit the trailer. During school time we planned and researched other trailers that involved a slahser and tried to find a trailer that was based around Halloween. I researched locations and how to structure a trailer as in what clips to include and what not to include. The genre of trailer is horror; we researched horror and the meaning of it this was because we wanted to get the full jest about the whole project. The things I know about the theme horror before we looked into it is that it is as an intense feeling of two main feelings which are fear and shock. As I said before we looked at many trailers which influenced us at some point in the trailer and they was ‘Mama’, ‘Scream’ and ‘The Exorcist’. The pre-production process; we done this by splitting up all the tasks between our group. I took the role of researching trailers and finding the ideal connotations to use. The filming went well because we had planned it beforehand so we was not stuck when the teacher gave us the camera, we made a storyboard to plan out every scene we also searched locations  in where to locate the scene so it could be good for the right acting and right location however, we did not go to all of the locations that we suggested if we had of done it could have been a more of a higher quality trailer next time we make another trailer we need to go to the locations we have suggested before so save time which we needed. We also planned to do it when it went dark because most horror trailers happen in the dark or in the early hours of the day but when we edited the clips and added effects the scene went darker so you could not actually see what was going on. We could improve the way my group worked by having all of my group with us when we did film this is because we couldn’t get all of the scenes done so we could off had more to work with rather than a small quantity. Also during the shot we could have improved it by during in when it was day light because then we could have edited the scene and made it look like it was at night however we didn’t know this so we shot our trailer during the night so in the trailer you can’t really see what is going on. The music we chose was only one that plays throughout the trailer we thought we should do this because its more effective and it is a convention of a horror trailer. Overall I think my group did well because we all worked together to make a good trailer and we took our work outside of the class room e.g. we filmed outside of the school premises so we did well in these areas however it could have been better if we had all of our group with us when we did film also I think our group did well because we went our way to make our trailer good and we tried to get top marks for it and we all helped each other in order to get this.  The favorite shot in trailer for me is when there’s a close up of me in the costume and son after there is the same shot by just flipped also the sound effect that was used created a scary moment. We didn’t try to break any horror conventions because we thought if we had all the main convention a horror trailer; we normally see and import it into ours we would get more viewers to watch it and it would be more effective also we did a lot of research on the main horror conventions so it was easy for us to import into within our trailer. How social group was teenagers we chose to do this because they are more protective of each other and plus they are girls so there priority was to keep each other safe although if we had boys it would break one of the conventions of horror trailers because men are more of the stronger than the girls. The killer was presented as a boy teenager this was because killers are often the boys rather than the girls also it was more interesting to have the boy do it. Our main target audience were young teenagers our trailer was successful in reaching them because all the characters within our trailer were teenagers too so it makes the audience wonder if this could happen to them on a normal day out to the park and it was more realistic to reach them as we are teenagers our self. The main lesson I learn from making the trailer is that to make more time planning it and to have more than one sheet of a story board so when we go out to film we can get started rather than thinking what to do next.

 

Waseem