At first we discussed the research we done in order to establish the genre we haven chosen being a horror/psychological. Firstly audience feedback was done with a number of people in order to decide which genre was the most popular. This research was done amount the age range of 15- 17 as it is also the audience we feel will be more appropriate for our project. This allowed us to determine the sort of target audience for the trailer and the print products. Along with this we also looked at the most recent films which we found influence from trailer such as Paranormal Activity which was just released while we were looking for ideas. Also we found that a horror/thriller allowed a chance for us to explore camerawork and also editing, to give an feel of psychological which would like to portray in the trailer. With this we also felt we could link it to our AS project which was also a similar genre; this therefore would allow use to extend and develop our skills also.
From the research we came to a conclusion of the idea in which the trailer and the print products would be based on. Especially from a number of psychological child films we found they were orphans which is what we have decided to do. Within this we decided that in the trailer a change will happen from the light to the dark, happy to sad taking into consideration the Levis Stratus theory of narrative.
We showed the research we did into conventions of a horror film such as Paranormal activity was shown to emphases the Bloody Mary idea. The use of a red screen from The Children and The Omen. We discussed closely effect of the titles and colour on a trailer which was mainly conventional to red, white and black. We also talked about the sound we were going to included such as echo, screams and gloomy music to set the scene.
We then discussed the poster and magazine of for the trailer in which the conventions of the research we did was also shown. Such as the main character in the Jennifers Body and the use of tagline and actors credits was also shown.
http://vimeo.com/29329640
This is the link to the video which recorded our presentation of the pitch.
As a task we have decided to review our pitch through how we felt it went. From the pitch we were asked questions on how the trailer was to link in with both the print products of the magazine cover and film poster.
The first question we were asked was how we were going to make the scary child in which we said a number of red shots would emphases the blood without actually showing this. I said that the film The Children was an 18 which showed actual killing and therefore as ours was a 15 we will decide to emphasise death with a red screen rather than showing the killing. This can ultimately have the same effect as seeing something . This idea was found from my research into the Jennfiers body with a specific shot of the girl killing someone and the screen going to red showing the death.
We said in this that the boy would be the symbol of the film which shows why we will be showing him in the poster and magazine.
In this presentation we also asked of more detail on the plot of the film which i think we didn't clearly explain in the presentation. We then then gave examples of shots we were going to include such as the initial idea of a graveyard and a change happening but the audience being not shown as to how that change happened. Again we said the use of red and blood shown in the The Omen of dripping blood.
Also asked was the target audience of the film which we said would be a 12/15 range and this was again justified from the some of the research we done in to 18 films such as The Children; we didn't want it to be too gory and therefore we also explained how this would allow use to narrow down the use of gory scenes to an extend.
We were also asked on audiences and we wanted to portray a sense of either being threatened by the child or sympathetic towards them in terms of the trailer given the circumstances the child was in. We also said we wanted to keep the audience in suspense by only showing the start and end but not showing what actual happened to the boy in the middle. This is something I emphasised as shown in the presentation video so that the full film wasn't given away.
Within the video it also shows how immediately the audience we were pitching to touched on the message we want to portray in the film of how can it be justified and okay for a child to do this given the situation or something which has happened to them. We also said how we were going to form a supernatural aspect to it in order for the audience to not relate it too much to reality but still be able to get the message we want to portray.
We were told we have a a very strong image across all three products including film and print. I think we did very well in terms of the pitch but we could have given more details and been specific of the plot and the narrative of the trailer. I have now decided to create a post on narrative in order to justify why we have chosen certain aspects in order to improve this.
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