This is the opening to Halloween (1978 from Youtube) where its filmed in one shot and this how I want to film one part of my trailer so that it shows everything from the villan's perspective (it makes the audience feel like they are in the shot). When the villan puts the mask on, instead of having the mask I will have hair over the camera but not blocking the view of the audience, just so that they know; "this is the villan who we are following". Another part that i will add is when the villan picks up a knife but instead of showing the knife I will show the wrinkled and cut hands of my villan as it brings it closer to the face (Camera) once again to indicate that we are following the villan. I'm not going to film for an intire 5 minutes of my trailer like this opening, I'm only going to take some ideas from this opening and use it in my trailer that will be suitable.

       this is a image of the little girl from The Ring, it is the sort of scary character that I indend to use in my trailer: a weird person who can mess with peoples minds and someone who can moves things withought doing anything.


 I also intend to give my character a very evil look with the eyes being something that stand out alot. The eyes from the A2 media studies trailer "Exposure" is a good example to use.


(These two images were taken from google)

this is like a checklist just to give a brief idea on what my trailer will be like.

To create a horror trailer:

Start of with what your horror trailer is going to be about.                                        

My horror trailer is going to be a scary kid who can mess with peoples minds.

Use movie makers (windows movie makers) or any other ones you know.                                       

Movie makers and adobe after effect and audacity is what I will use.

      

      Research horror trailers by looking at other horror trailers and see how they are made.          

     I have researched horror trailers, the two that gave me a lot of ideas were: the opening to Halloween (1978) and The Ring.

Make sure you make it non linear (doesn’t tell the story)

      By using some ideas from the two trailers I can make it mysterious

Make the setting of the horror clear in the trailer.

There are a couple of places where I think the setting will work well; one of them is down my cellar.

Be sure you don’t have to use writing to explain what is happening in the trailer.

It will all be explained in every shot

Make sure you increase or decrease the suspension in the trailer and be able to make it become interesting.

To make sure I keep my audience interested my trailer will get straight into the action.

Near the ending of the trailer, make it become as scary as you can! (make people jump, e.g. something popping out)

This shouldn’t be a problem as I hope to make my character as scary as possible!

 Tips

      

 Don’t get too attached with the idea of using the baddies all time. Be able to show who the   victims or heroes are.




I took this information from Google.

Settings and Themes research

Setting

-          Small communities or isolated places. Urban enviroments, dark streets and narrow alleyways. Large cities or run down ghost towns. Anything that connotes isolation or being alone.

-          Often sometimes places with “dark” history, like abandoned houses, hotels and insane asylums.

-          Locations for any good horror genre film could be: lakes, roads, highways, countryside, barns, farms, dark woods etc.

          Technical Codes

-         Camerawork is very expressive and not natural high and low angles can connote fear and nightmares.

-         Disturbing sounds are very important in a horror movie. Ambient diegetic sounds like footsteps and non-diegetic sounds (like a heartbeat).

-         Types of shots used like ECU on a certain victim’s face can help the audience identification with horror and fear, and also to exclude any threats (if we can’t see it, then its more terrifying).

-         Editing can create unsettling tension and suspense. If the editing hasn’t been placed up in a while then you know that something very bad is about to jump out and scare you.

          Themes

-          Good versus Evil

-          Depression

-          Religion

-          Childhood issues

-          Revenge

-          Supernatural

-          Beyond death

-          Science gone bad

-          Zombie apocalypse

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-          Nightmares

-          Madness

-          Insanity

-          Lust

-          “Self-consciousness”

-          Envy

-          Suicide

I also found this information on slideshare, this is the link to the page - http://www.slideshare.net/marine18/horror-genre-conventions

Research on the background of trailers

Trailer Research

Horror Genre and Conventions

-          Arose from gothic tradition in literuature dating from the 18^th and 19^th centuries: tales of terror and often repressed sexuality in historical setting of “dark, brooding menace”.

-          Described at the time as romantic literature, Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and Bram Stoker’s Dracula are the most enduring.

The Postmodern Horror film (1983 onwards)

-          Starting with the ‘Evil Dead’, horror films became incresingly self-referential leading to ‘Scream’. Then remakes (The haunting, Psycho, The house on haunted hill).

-          With teaser trailers there is the time limit convention of a teaser trailer normally being very short, around 30-60 seconds long. In this time it will have shown you a basic outline of what the new film is about. It may include text to ask you questions which may relate to what the film is about, or just take your thoughts away from what the film could really be about.

-          The American gothic tradition derives from the work of Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. lovecraft. Roger Corman made several films in the 1960’s beased on Poe’s novels.

     I found this information on Slideshare: the horror genre an overview.
     This is the link to the page - http://www.slideshare.net/jontowlson/the-horror-genre-an-overview