Research Evaluation

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Evaluation of research

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Group Research

After splitting our concept in to sections and doing deeper research in to them, we finally brought it all together and defused our concept:

Characters

http://alex-wade.blogspot.com/2010/10/actors.html

Props and Costumes

http://horrormediaa2.blogspot.com/2010/10/propscostume.html

Location

http://year13ascoursework1.blogspot.com/2010/10/more-research-in-to-location-and.html

All of the research that we gathered helped us create our storyboard and synopsis for our teaser trailer

Change of our location

We had to change our location because our previous owner of the location had changed his mind about us using the property to shoot. The property area was being renovated so we had to cancel our day to shoot. because of time we had to change our location.

We will still be using a forest as our location. Seyam one of my group members has found a forest location also situated in Essex, near to our first location that we where going to use. We have informed our actors about the new location.

Production Details Research

When we were applying the recognisable convention to a trailer we agreed that the production details where the most important feature in the trailer. The production details will appear at the beginning and through the trailer. We will design our production details before we shoot the trailer so that we can add it to the footage when we start editing. We will using Photoshop to produce the production details.  Production details that on influence our ideas.

Twisted Pictures

Paramount

Overture

Planning Our Actors

From our concept we wanted to use a young girl as Unique Selling Point. She will be Acting as our killer. Alex who is a member of my group has found a little sister who is the right person to act as our killer. She is the sister of one of Alex's friends. Because she is young he has to get parental consent to use her. She has agreed to be part of the cast for our production. She also will be using her own dress as a costume. This is a big bonus for us.
We will be keeping in close contact with her brother and parents informing them with any update, informing then of when we shoot the teaser trailer and any changes that may occur.

Visit to our location

From our research we have agreed on a forest/house location. There are different type of forest location that we could use. The film that influence our location was the Wolf Man. We wanted a forest location that was roral and very old looking.

The property belong to a very close family friend. the property is called Bower House outside london. Because I know the owner of the property, I called to ask if we could use the forest location. He agreed that we could use the it however we could only use it for 4 hours. We also will be using the building.

As a group we went over to Bower House and looked at how we will use it to place our actors and the different types of shot we could get from it. this Vist boosted our ideas for are trailer.

More research in to Location and setting(Concepts)

After decussing our concepts we split the research in to sections. we spilt it so that we all could do more research in to the concept. I was assign to look in to location and setting with more depth.

Location

Horror can be set anyplace and in any time or reality. Although the classic horror setting is in some sort of remote and isolated area (a haunted house, a remote village, forrest)

Haunted house
Haunted house location a very common in horror film. This type of location will create tension, keeping the audience on their toes. The setting in this will have to be dark and set during the night to give it a much more scary feel to the film. The films that have influence me are:

Saw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFQebvkii90
Case 39
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wtgVerQuso

Forest
The forest is another great location for a horror film. many horror film use the forest when coming bad happens, blowing of the leafs create the sense of enigma. The forest changes the atmosphere of the horror and is normally set at night.

Wolfman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPieOzIA7NM

School
A school is also a very common location that is used when make a horror film. this location create a sense of realism. Costumes also contribute this realism. This type of location can attract different age but mainly ages between 16-25.

Jennifer's Body
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi4062052889/

All of the location that I research convay the key element in horror. The location that we all agreed apon will be the forest location, we wanted to use this location because it is used in many films and believe this will attract our audience.  Because the location is common we want the audience to immediately understand what type of genre the trailer is.

Research into Horror Synopsis

In today lesson we began to look at synopsis of different films. we each looked at three different synopsis to try and understand the function of genre in films and how the concepts are defined. the synopsis briefly tell us what the film is about.

I looked at two synopsis and they where:

The last Exorcism
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1320244/synopsis

Saw VI
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1233227/synopsis

I looked at the different element of the a genre that was in the synopsis. Many horror synposis have common element that link them together. most of the have the same Plot and Stock Situations thi give the audience something to think about. They all have praganist character and antaganist character. they all share in common the sense of knowing what doing to happen, audience expections, we all know how is going to end.
The different convention that are in the film synopsis make the stoylines different for example horror theme of the film or the stock character that they used.

Directors Research

These are the directors that I am influenced by:

Brian De Palma: Sisters, Raising Chain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvsixXqC-gM

James Wan: Directed Saw, dead Silence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVQZIJr6z2g

Gore Verbinski: Directed film like the ring, Bioshock and Terrifying Tales

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZm09L-c7uY

Magazine Research and Analysis

In order to make our Magazine cover express the key conventions of a magazine cover we began research the main convention that our magazine should have.

Magazine cover research and analysis

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Horror Concepts

In our groups we brainstormed different concept and idea we can include in our horror campaign. we all contributed in idea for the campaign, We came up with ideas that we all agreed on.

Horror Concept Research on Prezi

Location

Firstly we looked at different locations we could film our trailer. we wanted a place that would match our other ideas like our props and character etc. we researched many different horror film and identified the mean locations that are used in the horror.  Our first location was a forest, this sought of location is very common in many horror. the second location was a old abandoned house, the old house would create a real scary feel. Finally we though about modernising our horror trailer b using a estate location in a block of flats this location may create realism.

Props

We also considered props that we could use, we dicussed different horror movie that we've all seen and talked about the props they used in the films. Firstly prop like knifes, chainsaws and guns came to mind but we all agreed a axe as our first prop in our trailer. Our second idea was to use mask this was influence films like friday 13th. 

Characters and Costumes

we research different film and look at he characters. We wanted to create our unique selling point via the character. We considered using little girl like the film the ring, we wanted a character that looked very vunerable however has a deadly secret of killing people. then we looked at costumes. In the different trailers that we looked at the dominant customes with was white dresses torn clothing for the antaganist character.

Poster Research and Analysis