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

Total Film

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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
  

Empire

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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.

Horror Posters

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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.