First Draft - Evaluation

The shot sequences followed the conventions of a typical horror genre. We believe that the audience will be able to identify this first draft as belonging to the horror genre. However there is definite room for improvement. We can add more scenes for the final project, mainly more confrontational scenes, bloody scenes and so forth. We included one sole track for the trailer knowing that we would have to include more non-diegetic sounds such as sound effects for the killer. We also noticed that there was a problem with the uploading of the overall draft, it caused the lighting of the shots to be darker than we edited in iMovie. Whether this was a fault of YouTube or our editing stands to be seen but if it is a fault of ours, we shall consider altering the lighting for particular shot sequences.

First Draft

This is our first draft of our A2 media production.

Voiceovers 2

My Bloody Valentine

The voice over in My Bloody Valentine has its similarities to Thriller, as in the slow sinister dialogue and terrifying feel. A voice over with that tone, dialogue and speech is able to draw the audiences attention and that's what were aiming for.

What we get from these trailers is that we need to pick the right people who have that similar voice or who can put on that voice, also we have to choose the right dialogue that will draw in the attention like the trailers above do.

Preview Screen

The inclusion of the MPAA preview screen is used to make the trailer we're making more genuine and professional, especially since the preview screen generally only appears in horror trailers to obviously give viewer discretion. 

Voice Overs 1

We have discussed and researched various voice overs in the trailers and we have concluded that the common features are that they usually have someone who speaks in a low voice, their dialogue is always short and a scary tone. Looking back at the 70s - 90s horror trailers, they have a different sound or feel when, as in spooky and scary, where as modern day have a more shocking, terrifying and horrific sound to them. We have realised that the voice over plays a big part in horror trailer, its one cliche that makes up a horror, so we looked more into voice overs in horrors:

Thriller

This is a voice over session of Vincent Price who done the voice over for thriller, we hear that the speed of his voice is  slow to give it a ghoul and scary feel to it. Also the sinister but yet terrifying laugh at the end adds to the scary dialogue.

Costume of the gas mask killer

This was decided because we wanted the killer's clothing (and overall appearance) to stand out in earnest so's to catch the audience's immediate attention. The darkness of the costume is something we agreed upon because we wanted to achieve the effect of the killer blending and/or melting into the background. However, we still wanted the killer to be seen at least clearly enough so we decided against the colour black for the jacket and went with our secondary choice, navy green. Erin supplied the items below from his personal wardrobe. The emphasis on appearance is mainly on the killer plus we wanted the victim's dressed ordinarily for a normal feel for the beginning of the trailer.