Feedback from the teacher/students for my poster

Some of the feedback i got for my poster was that there wasn't something right with either the postioning, colour, or the depth/layers of my poster. So firstly i tried altering the postion of the different layers and pictures. Then i tried altering the colours. Firstly i tried making the whole poster darker, but this didnt solve the problem, it just made it harder to see it. Then i tried making the picture of the murderer darker, it looked abit better but hen it didnt work well with the coloured picture. Therefore i turned the whole poster black and white, and adjusted the lighting slightly. This made the whole poster look alot better. The only problem with my poster now is some of the layout, i need to figure out where to put everything to make it effective.

Problems i had to over come with my trailer

Some problems i was faced with whilst filming which i had to over come...

• Obviously there was problems with the actors, finding times where they were all off together, however this was not too bad because i keep my number of actors to a minimum, so this problem didn't occur.
• The weekend i was going to take the cameras out to do my last bit of filming, i found out i wasn't going to be in on Monday so i could not take them. Because of this i manged to find a night during the week to take them out instead so i was not behind.
• How quickly it was getting dark at night was a big problem because i have to work till 6 during the week which by that time it was already dark and i could not do nothing about it. To over come this i done all my inside filming during the week, and all the rest of the outside filming on the weekend. I found this was a good way so i was not doing lots at a time but i keep filming then editing during the week so i knew exactly what to film the next time.
• On one Monday after i had finished the last bits of my filming, i went to do the editing and the mac i worked on was broke and i couldn't move my work onto another one until the next day so i couldn't do any work and i was nearly finished.
• The next my work got moved but then i found out that all the effects on my trailer had made the size of my work huge which made the macs stupidly slow, and unable to work on them. Because of this i had to take my work off the macs. It was put onto the library's hard drive. This meant that the mac was OK again but when i went to work on it, it was still stupidly slow.
• That night i found out that my sister had a mac book and hard drive so i could put my work on that and take it home. However my sisters hard drive would not work with the school macs because she had been using it on hers and her mac is a lot more modern the the crappy school ones. So i had to find another way of moving my work. In the end i managed to put on it on to a CD and i took it home. It was a bit difficult putting it onto my sisters mac as it was a lot different from the schools one but i finally manged to do it and complete my trailer.
• After i had completed it, i needed to get a Cd so i could bring it back school. However the biggest problem was that my sister went to Belgium and took her laptop with her with my work on it and wont be back before we break up for Christmas :(

Improvements since my first draft for my magazine.

This is my more improved version. The background of the trees has now been added in, although its not in this picture. Apart from that the other things i still need to add in is another picture advertising another film, which will be put under the night stalker. Then a couple more advertisements.

Ideas for bits and peices to go on my magazine cover

My titles sorted out, it's going to be called 'Picture Show' with the 'OW' and film reel and film. It's going to be in red as i have a red theme because of the connotations to it, and it's going to be in the font 'Imprint MT shadow'

The main focus of the magazine is the main character in the film. it's two pictures of the same person put together into one. This is to show he has a split personality in the film. The audience gets to see him leading a 'normal' life, falling in love, but then they also get to see him killing a number of women. This means this picture is getting across both sides of his life in one.

The background on my first draft is an effect called 'patina' which is on photoshop, which i then darkened. However i would like to put a setting picture in the background as this is what the majority of other magazines do. The setting in my movie is in a number of places, one being down a wooded lane. This is where i think I'm going to have my background photo taken.

I will also need some adverts on the front, advertising whats going to be inside the magazine. On other magazines they usually have other films coming out, and other contents that's going to be in the mag. For my magazine I'm going to have two or three adverts for other films with pictures. One of them being 'the night stalker' which was my film trailer in As. I will then make another two up.

Different Layouts for my Poster

These are some different layouts for my poster. If people could tell me which one they prefer or have any new ideas for a layout can they please comment. :)
The title in the first two are not that dark, there the same as the last one, they just didn't come out as clear.

To create these posters i cut out the two pictures on photoshop and placed the one of the girl in front of the one of the boy.

The background at first was all black but i changed it to an gradient effect which i thought was appropriate because it's black on one half where the murderer is and its fades to white towards the bottom half where one of the victims is. This is portraying the typical good and bad, light and dark scenario.
The title 'Love Hurts' is in two different fonts. The love is in 'blackadder ITC', and the hurts is in 'chiller'.

Magazine Name

I decided to go with the name 'Picture Show' for my magazine. With choosing the name i fought i could be creative on its image. I decided that the 'O' in show could be a film reel, and the 'W' could be the film coming out of it. To do this i drew how i wanted it to look then coloured it in and outlined it in pen to make sure it was clearly visible. I then took a picture of it, imported it and cut it out in photoshop to put on my magazine.


This is the film reel in the shape of the 'OW' i drew for title for my magazine.

First draft for Magazine

This is my first draft for my magazine

First draft of Poster

This is my first draft for my poster

Names for my magazine

Some names of other movie magazines:

• Empire
• Total Film
• Cine Live
• Studio

When i was coming up with a name for the name of my movie magazine i wanted it to link to movies or have something to do with movies.

Some ideas i came up with was:

• Motion picture
• Moving Picture
• Picture Show

I decided to go with Picture Show. I came up with this name after going to watch 'The rocky Horror Picture Show' in Birmingham on the 6th November. I think it's very suitable and goes well.

What magazine Covers contain

After researching a number of movie magazine covers i found that they all contain:

• The name of the magazine- this stays the the same font and size across all the same brand magazine. It's also in a large font so noticeable and is always at the top.
• The title of the film its advertising- Most the time this in a large font too, smaller than the title but bigger than the rest of the writing and it usually goes across the main picture.
• Picture of the main character/characters- This is always the main focus point of the magazine, and it's usually just the one person.
• The background- This tends to be either plain or a setting of the place where the films set.
• Price of the Magazine- The price of a movie magazine is usually in between
• Bar code- This tends to be at the bottom of the magazine, but varies from left to right.
• Name of the main characters- Sometimes the main characters names and even sometimes the directors name are on the front too but not usually.
• Names of other films coming out- Pictures of other films coming out soon and the titles of them are often down the side of the magazine but not too big to take away the focus from the main picture.
• The films tag line- This is not always included, but is sometimes added in near the title of the film somewhere.

Cine Live

The last magazine i researched into detail was 'Cine Live'.

Profile:

• French cinema magazine
• Owned by Studio magazine which was founded in 1987.
• Price: 3 euros
  

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Unlike the Empire and Total film magazines, Cine live seems a lot more dull at first impressions. The colors are a lot darker and there is less of them. They tend to stick to one colour. The writing is also not as bold or obvious as the other two magazines, it's wrote in a smaller and thinner font and is set behind the main picture. Although like the other two magazines the main focus is usually the main character or sometimes two characters. Cine live magazine front covers do also show other films that are coming out but they don't really contain any other adverts.

Poster Idea 2

My Second Idea

I came up for the image of my second idea from the hills have eyes poster. I imitated the image of the girls face at the bottom of the poster looking scared with blood on her face and a hand covering her mouth. I think it's a very effective idea, that's why i chose to go for this style in my poster. However mine also contains the murderer in the background with blood all over his body and a knife in his hand. This gives more to the poster so it's not as plain, also to make it more unique. In the hills have eyes poster the main colour is a orangey, brown colour. For my poster iv decided to go for the same colours as the first idea for my poster as i believe that keeping it mainly one colour and then having red in it will be very effective and appropriate for the connotations. For my first idea the poster would be mainly white but for this one i want it mainly black. The background would be black and so would the skirt the man would be wearing. He would then have blood over his body and there would be blood on the girls face which would be the red, along with the titles, tag lines and actors names etc. Also for the title i chose to have the words love and hurts in different fonts. I want to put 'Love' in swirly, posh writing, and the 'Hurts' in a dripping font so it looks like it's been wrote in blood. This is to show how the story different and split by romance and thriller.

Teaser Trailers

I decided to research teaser trailers and normal trailers to find out which one my trailer fit into best. First i looked on the website teaser-trailer.com, and found that the average lengh of the teaser trailer on that website was in between 1.17 minutes and 2.33minutes. Then i looked at the definition of teaser trailers on wikipedia and it said they are typically between 30 seconds and 60 seconds long.

Total Film

The second movie magazine i looked at was 'Total Film'

Profile:

• British movie magazine
• Published every month
• Published by Future publishing
• The second biggest movie magazine in Britain
• First issue launched in 1997
• Price: £3.99

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The front covers for love film don't seem to be as vibrant as the ones for empire, although they do still use bright colours but not as much or as many. The title for total film is usually in white although it does change in some magazine covers. The word 'film' is always in a large font, going across the whole width of page. Then the word 'total' is inside the word film in a small font. This is because the first thing they want the audience to see is the word film so they know what the magazine is about.

Empire

The first movie magazine i researched was EMPIRE.

Profile

• British movie magazine
• published monthly by Beauer Consumer Media
• First issue released in July 1989
• Biggest movie magazine in Britain
• Also published in Turkey, Russia and Australia
• They have the Empire awards which are voted for by the readers
• Price: £3.99
  

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These poster colours tend to be very vibrant and stand out. The title 'Empire' is always in red. The titles for my poster are in red and therefore i will stick to the trend and keep one of the main colours on my magazine red too.
The backgrounds are either a plain colour or a picture of the setting, but it's always basic to keep the attention of the main focus which is the main character.

Ideas for my poster

My First Idea

For my first idea i decided to go for the same image from the poster for p.s i love you, but then obviously put the darker side to it by making the man hold up a knife behind her. This then puts across the romantic side of the movie with girl and boy laying with each other, but then shows the dark side by him holding the knife. This mixes the two genres well together and evenly.

In my poster i would either have the picture in black and white or light colours. I would then make the woman wear bright red lipstick to stand out with the red titles. This would make red the only colour in the poster which is appropriate for it has the connotations of love and danger. The tag line 'Will he go with his urge to love, or his urges to kill?' will go underneath the title, also in red but in smaller font.

Romance Thriller Posters

Then i looked at the posters for some romantic thrillers as that's what my film going to be.

Some Romantic Thriller Posters

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Like in the romantic posters, the romantic thriller posters tend to contain the two main characters as well. Although instead of looking happy and content, they look a lot more serious, and sometimes the they contain items like guns etc.

At first appearance they could be mistaken for romantic posters, but then after a closer look, they have a darker side to them.

Mixing horror and Romance Posters

Mixing a thriller/horror and a romantic poster is obviously going to be a bit difficult because they do contain some opposite features. I need to find a way to mixing them to create a effective poster of my own.
Some differences are...






























Horror posters usually contain one character, most commonly female and usually the victim. Where romantic posters tend to contain two characters, a man and a woman, who are normally the two that are in love in the film.



Horror posters tend to have no colour in them , they normally stay mainly black,
with a little bit of white. Compared to romantic posters which are more white and brighter colours.


Although probably the hardest contrast to get a mixture between is the facial expression's on the characters faces. Horror ones look very shocked and scared. Where as the romantic ones look very happy and content.

Romantic Movie Posters...

What romantic movie posters usually contains...

• The centre piece- the two main characters, who the love story is about. It's usually a female and male, who tend to be good looking, and look very happy and content in the poster.
• The title- Although most the titles tend to be short again, they are a number that are quite long as well. They tend to be longer than horror posters.
• The tag line- Some romantic film, and posters have tag lines but not all of them.

Romantic Posters

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Horror Movie Posters

Horror Posters....

Whilst researching horror posters and what they contain i realised they tend to be very basic, with not a lot going on yet still very effective.

What they tend to contain:

A centre piece- the main focus of the poster, this tends to be a persons face, who is usually female.

The title- for horror films, the titles tend be be short, usually just a couple of words long.

The background- very basic, usually just a plain colour. This is so the poster don't get too hectic or take the focus of the main piece.

The tag line- this is usually on there to capture the audiences attention.

The actors- this is usually in small writing at the bottom, as its not a big feature or very important, but just there so people can see whose in the film.

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Romance Thriller movies typically contain

Characters:


In the majority of romance horrors, all the characters tend to be human except for the exception of Dracula.


Main Male Character: Usually the male is involved in the love side of the movie yet is usually the villain in the movie too, although a likable villain. Come across as a nice person who is doing bad things.


Main Female Woman: involved with the man, but is not up to the same naughty stuff as him. Somethings they don't know what he's up to, but the majority of the time they do.

Romance Thrillers

Romantic thrillers, obviously has to include a romance going on between at least two of the characters, but with a action thrilling storyline going along side of it. This is exactly what my film is like making this the perfect genre to place my movie. Having knowing this i researched into other romance thrillers so see how they were done.
Some of the most famous in which i researched were:

• Dracula
• Deception
• True Romance
• Deception

My favourite romance thriller is the 1993 movie 'True romance'. It has the title of a romantic movie, along with a love story that's no so romantic. It includes a number of famous actors and has the tag line 'Stealing, Cheating, Killing, Who said romance was dead?'

It relates to my movie not just by the genre, but also how the characters act. Not so much the main woman in film acting like Patrica Arquette, but more the main man in my film acting like Christen Slater. They both look and seem like average men on the surface, who have fell for a woman. Yet underneath the man in my film is a murderer and acts so casual about it, like its not unusual. Christian Slater in true romance also doesn't think twice about breaking the law, maybe not as bad, although he does kill a number of people too, and acts so casual about it. This storyline is quite like my own, yet different in many ways.

Researching thriller movies

As using the genre horror was confusing people about what my film would contain, i decided to look into the thriller genre. I found this definition on wikipedia:

"Thrillers are characterised by fast pacing, frequent action....."
"The genre is a fascinatingly flexible form that can undermine audience complacency through a dramatic rendering of psychological, social, familial and political tensions and encourages sheltered but sensation-hungry audiences, in Hitchcock's phrase, "to put their toe in cold water of fear to see what it is like."

I watched some thriller trailers to see what they contained, so i knew what to and what not to put in mine. Some that i looked at:

• Psycho
• Red Dragon
• Leon
• Memento
  
  Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 movie 'psycho' is still one the most remember able thriller movies of all time. It could also be classed as a romance thriller because of the love story between Lila Crane and Sam Loomis.
  
  
  
  After watching lots of already existing thriller movies i decided my movie was definitely more a thriller than a horror. Looking back at my questionnaire on question 8, when asking people if they thought thriller and romance went well together all 20 said yes. This means my target audience will have expanded as more people would want to watch my movie. Therefore i am now classing my movie as a thriller romance which is already a genre in its own.

John Patterson 2006, said:

"Thrillers provide such a rich literacy feast. There are all kinds. the legal thriller, spy thriller, action adventure thriller, medical thriller, police thriller, romantic thriller, historical thriller, political thriller, religious thriller, high tech thriller, military thriller. The list goes on and on with new variations constantly being invented. In fact, this openness to expansion is one of the genres most enduring characteristics. But what gives the variety of thrillers common ground is its intensity of emotions they create, particularly those apprehension and exhilaration of excitement and breathlessness, all designed to generate that all important thrill. By definition if a thriller doesn't thrill, it's not done it's job"

Ideas for Clips and Shots

Romantic parts:

• Opening scene: scenery - Panning shot or tracking shot which i will do by filming out the side of a car window.
• cuddling up on the sofa - mid angle or long shot
• cooking together- mid angle, over the shoulder shots
• hands touching - extreme close up
• walking the dog together - long shot, mid angle shot
• there faces smiling individually - close ups, i will also slow these two clips down for the typical romantic scene in love story's when they see each other and it goes in slow motion.

Thriller parts:

• Girl scared in house then being grabbed from behind - long shot, mid angle, point of view shots
• girl frantically trying to open a door which is locked - mid angle, extreme close up of her hands on the handle
• the murderer dragging a girls body across the floor - mid angle
• girl running down a wooded path - high angle shot, long shot
• girl hiding in bush - mid angle
• murderer running at her with a knife or bat - point of view, low angle, mid angle
• girl hiding under the bed can can see a pair of feet - mid angle, point of view

More Changes to the trailer

Yet again iv decided to make some changes in the way i shoot my trailer. It was going to be starting out as a romantic, with the main woman and man getting to know each other. Then in between these clips i was going to show some fast, flashing gore scenes. It would then finish with showing the audience that the man in the love scenes is the same man that killing these other woman.
However once i had shot some of my trailer and id started editing i found it wasn't as fast paced as i first thought, and slightly boring, which i did not want. Therefore i decided to change around how i shot it. This was my new idea:
I still wanted to start it looking like a romantic, that way i could still use the shots i already done too. In between some shots when it faded to black writing would come up saying, something along the lines of: "Love is supposed to be a beautiful thing...." "But what happens when...." "You fall in love with a serial killer?...." The dots mean there's clips in between those bits of writing.
After the last bit of writing, the music speeds up and gets louder. Then there will be lots of shots of the murderer chasing and killing girls. This will make my trailer a lot more fast paced and exciting, by making the majority of the trailer a thriller instead of romantic. It will end this way too. At one point i might show a clip of the murderer with the woman hes fell in love with, just to make sure the audience knows it's not her he's killing but other women. Also this will make a nice quiet break in the excitement to really show the contrast.

Inspirations:
The movie trailer i watched that really inspired me and made me think to shoot my trailer this way was the 2008 movie 'Prom Night'.






It has the same narrative in the trailer as i want my trailer to have. It starts out looking like a romantic but then kicks into a thriller to surprise the audience.

Mise en Scene

Costumes:

Danny (murderer):
Romantic scenes: In the romantic parts of the film, where hes falling in love he wears jeans, white trainers, and light colour tops. These are every day clothes for a 25 year, which is trying to get across that he is 'normal'.
Gory scenes: This is in contrast to the gory scenes, where hes hardly seen but what is shown, hes all in black to show his dark twisted side.

Siouxsie (Main woman):
Through out the trailer siouxsie is wearing bright colourful dresses, and skirts. This is to show she's vulnerable and feminine. She dresses to match her personality, bright and cheerful. This image of the vulnerable female makes the audience feel more sorry for her when they realise whats going on.

Victims:
The victims which are shown only come up seconds at a time and its usually there bare skin which is shown. However there are glimpse of there clothes and they wear short shirts and low tops. This shows the murderer goes for the good looking females who come across as helpless, which is ironic because it's the same sort of girl he's fell for.

Props:
A knife will be used in the gory shots as the women will be getting stabbed and slashed. A real knife will be used. It will be just an ordinary sharp kitchen knife.

Fake blood will be used to splatter across the victims. I brought the fake blood already made from asda.

Lighting:

All the lighting in the trailer will either be natural light if shot outside or artificial light in the indoor scenes. No extra lights will be added, making it look natural. The gory shots will be shot in the same lighting, with the same brightness, but i will make those shots darker on the mac so it looks like it was shot in dimmer light. This will give it an eary but realistic effective as when the murderer tortured and murdered the girls it would be somewhere quite out the way and in the dark.

Location:

The shots that in inside will all be done in my own house. Some of the outside shots are shot on the park opposite my house, an the rest of the outside shots are taken on the street outside my house. Every location i used is right at hand to make my filming as easy as possible, and this will make sure no issues come up about being able to film somewhere, or problems with being able to get somewhere.

Music

For my trailer and the way I'm going to shoot it, i decided that i wanted a slow and romantic song to go to it. I decided this because the trailer is going to be portrayed as a romantic to begin with. As for the fast gory clips that will flash up through out it, i want a screeching like sound to come up with it to unsettle the audience. I believe this will be the most effective because it will catch the audience by surprise and unsettle them.

I am not aloud to use any already existing music for copy right reasons. To get around this my sister's boyfriend Chris Myers is going to help me. He went to university to study music therefore he knows how to play and apply it to films. After i have completed my movie, i will give it to Chris along with samples of what sort i music i want on it along with sound effects for the screeching noise. Once he's done his half we will watch it together and i will say what changes need to be made if necessary.

Changed version of Trailer

My first idea of how i was going to shoot my trailer was i was going to show the murderer following the first young lady and killing her. Then following a second women and killer her. When he follows the next, he ends up meeting her and falling in love but with still having urges of killing her. However i came to the conclusion this is more like a film opening or a short story not a trailer so i decided to change things around a bit.
The way i decided to shoot my film trailer instead was to show the murderer meeting the women he falls in love with her and to show the audience them getting to know each other. This gives the impression from the beginning it's more of a romantic movie not a gory one, which will shock the audience more when the violence does happens. In between showing the man fall in love with the women i am going to show the man killing a number of other women as well. This will confuse the audience and leave them with lots of questions, wondering whats going on, which will leave them wanting to watch the film.
However with doing the trailer this way i had problems with coming up with ideas on how to end the trailer. Therefore i decided that in the gory shots i wouldn't show the man who was doing the murders. So instead the audience watching would be thinking "whys it showing you gory clips in a romantic?" then i could end the trailer by showing the mans face, to show that its the same man that's seems to caring and falling in love, who is also a women hater and a murderer.

For this trailer to be affective and shocking, I'm going to make the gory clips flash up really fast as not to give to much off.

While researching other film trailer that do this i found this French movie trailer i really liked:



I like the trailer for this film because i like how it changes from one shot to the next. It makes the audience uneasy, and causes a lot of tension. Therefore i would like to use this effect in my movie on the violent parts to unsettle the audience.

Representation of characters

Daniel Clayton
The main male character, Danny, is represented in two different lights. The first side of him you see is a caring, loving person who's just meet a girl and is falling in love. This is how the audiences sees him through the majority of the trailer. However he also had a twisted, dark side to him although the audience don't get to know that this evil man, committing these murders is the same man being shown in the rest of the trailer till the end. Through the romantic parts of the trailer he'll be represented as a stereotypical 25 year old, with a simple but modern dress. His outfit is of the norm for the age, which is trying to put across the image of a typical young lad, with nothing obviously 'strange' about him.

Siouxsie Guest
Siouxsie is the main female in the trailer, in which Danny falls in love with. Like Danny she is represented as a normal 25 year old who dresses with fashion. However unlike Danny, she is what she comes across to be, and has no hidden agenda. Towards the end of the trailer, she goes from coming across as a string female character, to a weak character, as she's getting played and is fooling for it, with out having a clue whats really going on.

Target Audience

The main target audience my movie is going to attract is teenage females and males to adults. Its going to attract the females because of the romantic side to the story. They will enjoy following how the couple are getting to know each other and fall in love. Although the story has a more sinister side to it, this is why the males will want to watch it because they will be attracted to the violent and gory parts of the movie. By making a hybrid genre of horror and romance, it allows me to attract a much larger target audience compared to a single tracked genre film. It would be a good film for couples to watch as it is about a couple, and them falling in love but with a dark twisted side to it. It involves a dark sense of humour, with also showing the reality of some people not knowing anything about the background and history of the person they have just started dating. This makes the D.I.N.K.Y's (dual income, no kids yet) couples a prime target for my movie.
I will give my movie an 18 certificate, which of course only allows over 18's to be able to watch it because of the gory, violent scenes in the film. I'm not going to target my film to over 60's because i believe they wouldn't want to watch this sort of genre movie, so I'm put all my focus on the 18-50/60 audience.
The main social class i believe would watch a hybrid of horror and romance are the working and middle class people. This is because they are surrounded by violence and romance all the time. The working class especially are stereotypically seen in the news as people who do random acts of violence and have the highest number of teenage pregnancies. Therefore a film with gore, violence and relationships might appeal to them.

Research into Horror/Romance

To find out if people will like the idea of me mixing two opposite genres together, horror and romance, i decided to conduct a survey. I did not tell the people i asked the aim of the survey, so there was no demand characteristics. Although tell them afterwards and asked if they would not mind me using there results so there was no ethical problems.
The questions i asked:

1. What gender are you?
2. What age are you?
3. What is your favourite movie genre?
4. Do you watch a variety of genres, or do you mainly stick to your favourite genre?
5. Do you enjoy hybrid genres more or less then movies that strictly stick to a single genre?
6. Which two genres do you think go best with each other and why?
7. Which two genres do you think would go worst with each other and why?
8. Do you think these genres would go well together?:

• action & comedy
• action & romance
• romance & horror
• comedy & gangster
• romance & comedy
• crime & musical
• thriller & romance
• drama & disaster
• thriller & adventure
• sci-fi & horror
• mystery & thriller

9. Do you think two opposite genres like horror and romance or action and comedy would go well together and why?

All together i asked 20 people, of a mixture of ages and ethnicity's. My findings shown:

• All 20 people said they enjoyed hybrid films more than films that stick to one genre.
• Most people enjoyed the genres comedy, horror and romance most
• Majority of people thought that the two genres that go best with each other are romance&comedy and horror&comedy
• Majority of people thought genres that go bad with each other are sci-fi&musical thriller&comedy
• Majority of people (12) said that they thought horror and romance would go well with each other
• 14 people said they thought that two opposite genres would go well with each other.

Although the majority of people did say they they thought horror and romance would go well together, there was still a number of people who didn't. The people who said they thought they would not go well together, at the end of the survey i told them my idea of a trailer and asked if they thought it was a good idea. All 8 people said yes and when i asked why they changed there mind, most people said it was a problem the name of the genres. When i said horror they thought of super natural monster etc.

However all the people who said they believed that horror and romantic genres would not go well together were either under the age of 16 or over the age of 40. This age group was not my targeted audience, it was 18 - 40 therefore it does not have too much of an impact anyway. It does not change things it's just goes to show i was right in thinking that those age groups might not enjoy my film as much as my target audience which tell me i chose my target audience correctly.

After my survey i thought about what people and said. The genre horror does stereotypically contain supernatural monsters and ghosts etc, in which my film does not. So i need to find out which genre would suit my movie more as not to confuse anybody, and to put anybody off watching my film.

My Movie as a Hybird

My movie is going to be a hybrid, with the genres horror and romance. These two genres don't usually collide, although occasionally they may be a love story going on between the victims. This makes the audience become more personal with the characters. It makes them happy when it's a happy ending for the pair, but then it upsets them and makes them feel sorry for the couple if one or even both end up getting killed or hurt.

But what is a rare sight in movies is when the murderer ends up falling in love with someone. This is whats going to happen in my film. Even though it's not normally done i believe the two genres will work well together, because they are the two opposites.

Normally the audience judge whether they want to watch a certain film or not by the genre, for example a boy who enjoys sci-fi's might not want to watch a romance film. However because of the two genres iv chosen and they tend to attract different audiences, iv got to portray my trailer in a way that it attracts both types of audiences. My films going to attract boys because they stereotypically enjoy watching gory, violent films. But also girls because they stereotypically enjoy watching romantic, love filled films. This in turn will broaden my target audience.

Hybrid Genres

In film, genre refers to the method of film categorisation, based on similarities in the narrative elements from which the films are constructed. There's no fixed boundaries but are often formed by sets of conventions. Many films cross through into multiple genres, by the way they borrow and combine these conventions. This leads to hybrid genres branching off from the more common genres.

Some hybrid genres:

Action & Comedy
Action, comedy films blend comic antics and action where the film stars combine witty comments with daring stunts and explosive plots. This genre became recognised when comedians like Eddie Murphy started taking more film roles in the 80's. These types of films are often buddy films, with the two main characters being mismatched partners, which is where the comedy comes out.

Some Action/Comedy films:



Bad boys / Bad boys "
Hot Fuzz
Rush Hour
Midnight Run




Comedy & Horror
The comedy, horror films are the type of films where the usually scary and tense moments are approached in the way that they become humorous. Some of the horror comedy films use the obvious and stupid cliches. Some are much more subtle, and approach the comedy part much more cleverly. Then another style is to rely on over the top violence and gore.

Some Comedy/Horror films:



Scary Movie
Shaun of the Dead
Haunted mansion
Little shop of horrors
Club dread
Young Frankenstein

Romance & Tragedy Romance movies have always tended to be and still mainly do, end with "they all lived happily ever after". However with all the films ending this way the audience got bored with being able to predict what was going to happen. Therefore film makers started producing films which didn't always have such a happy ending. These films usually had one of the main characters dying or falling in love with someone else.

Some Romance/Tragedy Films:

Cruel Intentions
True Romance
Titanic
Romeo and Juliet
the notebook






Most films now a days are hybrid genres. If a film company stuck strictly to one genre in their movie then the audience would be able to predict the ending quite precisely. Comedy and romance are the main genres that have combined with other ones to make hybrid genres. This is because comedy, humor and wit can come into any situation, and audiences enjoy being made to laugh. It's also the same for romance, it can come into any genre quite naturally. The theorist, Janet Stagier, even goes as far to argues that Hollywood films are never pure genres, as most movies blend the love oriented plot of the romance genre, with all other ones.

Clips im using.

While researching into gory romantic films, i was trying to find one in which the murderer falls in love. It was really difficult as there are not many movies in which this happen. However i did found this clip of the film 'Red Dragon' a follow on from the Hannibal Lecter films. In red dragon, Ralph Fiennes plays a murdering cannibal who against his will falls on love with a blind woman Emily Watson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfTsDQu7eH8


This clip is really good as it shows the frustration of a murderer who's getting feelings for someone, and I'm using this idea.

How im going to shoot my trailer

I'm going to start my trailer with showing the audience the murderer following the first women. He follows her down a wooded alley, and takes a picture of her. She sees a flash and turns around but can't see anyone so carries on. He then grabs her into the bushes and kills her. It then goes onto shots of a big house, and inside is a girl sleeping in bed. The murderer walks in and grabs her mouth to stop her screaming then yanks her out of bed. The audience don't get to see him kill her though. He then starts stalking his next victim. He takes her photograph of her walking into her house, and prints them off and sticks them onto his board. However when he goes to wait outside her house for her the next day, she's already left and they accidentally end up bumping into each other. I go on to show different days out they spend with each other, to show them getting to know each other. One night whilst in bed together, he can't sleep, he looks at the clock and its 2:00am. He goes down the stairs and gets a knife. He then goes back to where she's sleeping, and lifts up the knife but then he can't bring himself to it. He gets frustrated and leaves. Later it shows the same clock at 4:06am, then shows clips of the mans feet in the shower with blood pouring to the bottom of the shower, and clips of him washing away the blood of his hands. This tells the audience without actually showing them that he got frustrated and went out and took his rage out on some other woman.
The trailer is shot in a linear way as not to confuse the audience and so they can get a good understanding of whats going on with out having to think about anything to much.

Institution

After choosing which idea to go along with, i decided to do some research into which institution to use to produce my movie. Firstly i decided i would use a British institution, as my movie will be shot in England, and will use English characters. I found a website, which had all British institutions, then i had to research deeper into what all the intuitions were about, what sort of films they produced etc.

The website i used: www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/distributors.html


I rounded it down to these three movie distributors:

• Anchor Bay Entertainment


• Arrow films


• Gala Films

Out of these three i decided to go for Anchor Bay Entertainment because they do a wide range of genres including horror and romance and my movie is a hybrid of both. Also because they haven't produced any really high budget films, and my movie will be on low budget, therefore this institution is suitable for my purposes.

Which idea to choose

I decided to not go with my first idea as i thought trying to get my actors to act like there on drugs might be a bit difficult. Also the idea of using drugs might put some people off which would narrowing the target audience, and i want the biggest target audience possible. If i took the use of drugs out of my film, i could make a broader target audience, however it would be too much like my film opening for my media work in 2008/2009, which i do not want to do as i want to do something different to show i have a wide range of ideas and skills.

I also decided not to do my second idea, as i fought it would be a wise move to stay away from the supernatural side of movies and to stay with the realistic, as it would be more sensible with my resources.

Therefore iv chosen to go along with my third idea. It's the most realistically doable out of all my ideas, and with my resources will be the most effective.

PITCH

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This is my pitch i presented to the class , near the beginning of the school year to get the first feedback and ideas on how i should shoot my trailer. I got some usueful ideas and suggestions to get me started.

Third Idea

My idea is about a male serial killer, who stalks young women who then goes onto murdering them. He's psychotic and has a hatred towards women. He follows them, taking photographs of them, without them knowing, and when there own there own he kidnaps them and mutilates them in horrible ways to show his hatred of females. He then takes photographs of them once there mutilated and
pins them up on his board with the others. However with one of the victims he's stalking he accidentally bumps into them and they start talking, and they decide to go out somewhere together. He sees this as a perfect opportunity of getting her on her own. However once there together he actually starts enjoying himself, so when it comes to the crunch time, he can't bring himself to do it. Afterwards they start meeting more frequently, and he realises he's got feeling for this women, but hates the fact he has, and decides he needs to do something about it and get rid of her. Although yet again he can't bring himself to it, and so he takes his rage out on unexpected women. This women's messing with his head and the trailer leaves the audience thinking whether he goes with his urge to love or his urges to kill.


Ideas for the Title of this film...

• Love can kill
• Love hurts
• Dangerous love
• Twisted Romance

Second Idea

Opening Scene-


For my second idea i decided to go for the typical opening scene, but with a twist. It starts out of shots of a big scary house, then inside the house is a young girl asleep in bed. Whilst sleeping, her bedroom door creaks open and a man walks inside with a knife. He walks over to the bad and lifts up his knife but as he does a pair of skinny, pale arms shoot out from underneath the bed and grab his ankles and yanks him hard under the bed where he disappears.

The story behind this opening is that the pale arms belong to a dead girl who got murdered a few years before. Because she was murdered in such a horrendous and violent attacks, she comes back from the dead to go after the one who killed her. The only problem with this is that she don't know for certain who it actually was so she goes after anyone it could be. Therefore she kills a number of Innocent people along the way, but not people who are really innocent as there all killers and rapists.

My inspirations for this film were The Grudge and The Ring but with my own twist to make it original. It's similar in the ways that i have used a dead girl coming back to life. However the girl in The Grudge is haunting a house and the girl in The Ring is killing the people who have watched the video. The dead girl in my film will be coming back to get vengeance on her killer, but killing a number of wring people on the way, which i believe is not like any other film.

For this idea i researched into Japanese horror. This is because over the past few years J-horror (for short) has become more and more popular, which has changed the sort of films we watch today. Because of how good the Japanese are at making horror films, a lot of there movies have either been changed into American or entirely remade in America for our viewing. Some Japanese films that got made into American and done well in both counties are 'Dark water' 'The grudge' 'Pulse' 'One missed call' The ring' 'Premonition' 'Recarnation' etc. The Ring was the first Japanese film that made a big impact on the American and English screens in 1998. It aloud the western culture to experience yurei, which are Japanese ghosts which have been bound to the physical world through string emotions which don't allow them to pass on. Depending on what emotion it is that's keeping them on the world is depending on what sort of ghost that it is that is stuck on the earth and unfortunately there usually bound here by vengeance. Like most folklore creatures yurei have traditional appearances and usually stick by a certain set of rules. The yurei are usually female, and wear a white robe looking piece of clothing, which are the traditional funeral garments in Japan. They also usually have long, black, messy hair.


As I'm using the same idea of a dead girl in my film, like the films that inspired me, I'm going to use the same looking girl in mine, the traditional yurei. This image would be a good one to use as it's simple to achieve but very effective. All i would need is to put a black wig and some white face paint onto a young female.

First Idea

Once choosing to do a horror movie, i came up with my first idea. It involved a group of good friends having a good time, who have just finished there A Levels and are about to leave to go to university. They decide to have one big last night, where they will all be together for the last time, before going off there separate ways. They decide to go camping, somewhere far away as not to disturb anyone. As it will be there last time altogether, they decide to make it a good one, and drink lots of alcohol and do some drugs, although they don't normally. It starts out fine, until everyone starts tripping out and seeing things. One of the group goes missing, although the rest are not that bothered as they think he's just got too messy and he'll wonder back soon, although the audience gets to see the young lad get murdered by a masked person. Then a second person goes missing but yet still no-ones too bothered. It's only after when someone goes to have a wee in the woods and finds one of the body's and comes back screaming that everyone starts to get bothered. However when they all go to look the body is gone, and they think the boy was just tripping. However everyone starts seeing people in weird masks in the woods and more of the group get picked off, but no-one knows when there just tripping or if its actually happening. They try to get away, but not knowing whats real and whats just in there heads.

My inspiration for my idea was from the film Shrooms. It's similar in the ways it's young people in the woods who have taken drugs and don't know whats real and whats not.



The title i came up with for this idea was 'XTC' as all the characters would be on estacy.






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Choosing a genre

The first thing i had to look at when choosing to do a trailer was which genre to do. I choose to look at action, gangster, horror and romance.

Firstly i looked into action but i decided to not choose this as the genre to my film because all the action films i researched had guns, explosions and fast cars. The main locations were either in the fast cars in a chase or on top of buildings etc. Therefore because of the limited resources i have, and what i can do, iv chosen not to do an action film because i don't think it would be very effective compared to other action films.

Then i looked at gangster movies, but i also chose to go against doing a gangster film trailer. The characters could be easily replicated, as the norm character in gangster films are men in suits. However the main choice of weapon gangsters use are normally guns and a firing gun would be hard to imitate in my trailer. Also most gangster/bank robber films are shot in or around banks which would not be sensible.

Afterwards i looked into romance films. I decided everything in a romance trailer was doable with my resources. The main characters are usually a male and female who fall in love. No weapons or effects are needed, and the normal costumes and locations are what the majority of people where and go every day. However i thought that the whole genre of romance was too predictable and had been done lots of times before. Therefore i choose not to do a romance as i wanted to do a more original and exciting film trailer.

Therefore the one i was left with was horror. As with the romance, there was no guns, fast cars or explosions necessary. The typical location for a horror movie are usually big, scary houses or isolated woods and the normal weapon used are usually knives and axes etc. The stereotype characters tend to be a young female victim and a 'bad guy'. All these necessities which are usually in horror films are all doable with my resources, unlike the action and gangster films and it'll be more exciting then doing a romance.

However after choosing to make a horror trailer, i didn't want it to be typical and predictable. I wanted it to have more a twist and be original, rather then a young female getting chased by the murderer.