We have decided on a horror film for media we watched a film called 'The Omen' to relate to our trailer in order to do so we looked deep into the conventions of the horror film itself and what makes the film itself to be all that in the horror genre to be specific.
The certain aspects which we looked deep into would be that of the colours, a lot of red would be used to represnt the blood and danger to put more emphasis on the film itself. Black was another primary colour that was used it was mainly used for shadows in scary moments and to put that much more of a dramtic feel to it. Fonts displayed were also very important towards this film as they gave of a more scary approach to the film overall.
There were a lot of phallus symbols suck as the candles, spears and needles themselves this was to give off dominance and to show power in each scene, which individual character was in what position.
You could see a lot of religious symbols being used in relation to the situation itself in the film how the cross represents Jesus and towards the omen himself it was a negative response causing catastrophe when the two came together. As for lighting this was manipulated in various ways which had a posotive impact not only on the scenery but the film itself for example there were scenes where natural light would have come across as being displayed but in actual facting it was the lighting edits and added the the horror feel.
All of these main features in the film itself made us aware of good scenes which we could use in our trailer. To make sure the preliminary trailer we created using Omen cut scenes was up to standard we would use sounbites would of made sure that it included reviews, certification, billing block and one of the most important factors would be that we dont give away the ending linknig back to Todorov's theory about the equilibrium and how our trailer would show the start of the equilibrim, the disruption of the equilibrium parts of the conclusion but not the actual restoration and how it would be resolved in the end.
The speed of the trailer at points would have a great impact on the trailer itself overall, we thought as a group it would be a good idea to start off with a slow pace build up to a more vivid pace, this is good because research shows from other trailers that this is how most trailers (horror in particular) would build up as it creates a lot of tension and strong atmosphere.
Sounds that would be included in our Trailer would be those which are mainly really loud, such as booming and thunder, slashing sounds, heartbeats, screams, ticking as well as the occasional whispering sound.
A good choice of music would be that which goes from calm to fast as this creates a strong effect in relation to the images on the trailer itself. Strings are also good because it gives off a goosebump sort of feel. For onwards music afterwards rock would be a good choice because it would collaborate nicely for disruption with other edits. In my opinion I think nursey rhymes are an excellent way in which you can build up on the horror genre mainly because it gives that whole sense of innocence, chanting is similar to this but links towards rituals and their performance on people or satanic creatures.
Transitions play a key role in fitting this all together mainly because it links all different areas how flashes would flow really well with the edits and the lighting the same goes for fades and it all being in sync with the music.
The reason for us making the choices we did for this trailer would mainly be because of how other trailers which we looked at show similiar details in specific areas. The sequence was made the way we made it because the whole idea of the fonts leading into one another using transitions was very unique and thats a strong point whihc makes this trailer stand out along with the various colours used and sound effects.
What I have learned from making this trailer would be how to organise and manage my time accordingly and effectively and how to configurate 'Final Cut Pro' to structure my trailer and the right places in which to put the transtions sound effets colour and text all into one.
How I could improve upon it would have been to take into consideration most of the key facts that I had mentioned as I dont think we really looked most of them and in the long run this could benefit us and enable us to improve on other trailers in the future.
