Characters, Loaction.

Theses are pictures of my loaction and characters.

Location: Bread and chesse lane - hertfordshire

This location is near where all of the group live and as you can see by the pictures its a great location for a horror film due to the woods and long mysrtiouse lanes. In the dark it makes the attmospher very scary and even while filming i was quet on edge.

Charcaters (down-up): Leanne,Conor,Jade.

With the two main girl charcters we wanted them to look toally normal and for them to look like there going on a night out on the twon and have taken a short cut through the lane. There good firends in real life and there part of the team so i would be able to relie on them to turn up to the shots and do there best as it is there media work aswell. They also have great acting skills as we tested before to make sure they can portray a good screaming and crying face!

For the filmimg they will be in party clothes adding to the story line showing where there going or where they have come from.

The progtaganist is played by conor who again is a normal teen but while filming played the attacker very well getting into character. He was a close friend to one of the main charcaters and was reible to turn up to shots aswell.

Group story board.

This is my story board that we done as a gorup. We all had diffrent ideas but someone came up with the idea of baseing it on a true story then we remembered the story of a car going down a dark lane and comming across a pram in the middle of the road. From this idea we brain stormed what could possible happen,camra angles and also music and tension build up. After alot of thought we drew our story board. This is our first few shots, as you cant see the pictures and writing with it im going to explain the shoot and why we done that spersifc shot.

1. With our opening shot we wanted to show the loaction and where the characters are and this medium shot suited our ideas. We wanted the camera on the floor so it would give a diffrent effect and would also sort of look uo at the car as it went past. The reason we had the car zomming past very fast was to give an indication that the characters were younge and going somewhere quickly. We wanted the sound affects to be the cars speeding past and also leaves to fly past to get the effect

2.With the next shot we wanted to enforce the peviouse shot by having a high angle shot of a 20mph speed limt, and its very obviouse that the car is going over the speed limit, again enfoving the age of the characters being younge without even seeing them yet. With the sound effect we wanted to only hear the car going past.

3.With the first shot the audience see of the characters we wanted them to know that there two younge,fun girls going out fir the night. The mes on scene is very dressy clothes,lots of makeup and big hair. The sound affects we wanted to hear was very loud music and thegirls laughing and singing to the music. By having this shot it makes sure that the trailer has some sort of turning point as the first few shots are happy fun shots.

4.The next very quick cut goes into the car driving past but a beer can being thrown out the window and rolling down the road for one second. The reason for this shot was to give a diffrent angle to the trailer and give the audience something diffrent to look at quickly instead of just medium shots of the characters and car.

5. The next shot has a quick cut into the girls looking very confussed at obviously looking at somthing outside of the car infront of them. This is the start of the turning point in the trailer as the music goes quieter and the shots are looking so happy.

6. We wanted the audience to see what the characters were seeing but instead of just showing them what they were seeing in a medium shot we decided to have the camera behind them to make the audience feel as if there in the car with them. The lighting would also be good as the characters and the seats that there in would be black silouets buts the object infront would be visable.

7. We wanted the audeince to get a diffrent perspective on the pram and also to give a veiw on what the rpam is seeing so this shot of the the camera looking over the pram into the car with the headlights on is a realy good shot.

8. With this next shot its a very simple quick cut showing that the girls are getting out the car to see the pram. The reason we wanted to show that they were getting out of the car was because if we didnt show this then the whole story and trailer would not make sense as it went on.

9.We wanted to enforce this with a shot of the girls getting out the car from a midum fading shot but withone of the girls leaving there door open. This is a very important shot to the trailer.

10.The next shoot is a low angle shot looking up at the girls as they pull away the cover on the pram to reval whats inside. The music will build up and make the audience more tense before they pull bacl the cover and then the music cuts out stright away to revale thats theres nothing there.

11. As the girls walk back laughing the music dies down and all you can hear is the girls walking and the engine running, but buliding tension, relaxing it then buliding it up again keeps the audience intrested.

12. The next still shot is the shot from outside the car looking in from the back window. As the girls get in the car a dark show of a man pops up in the back seats. This is the turning point in the film but doesnt give to much away.

13. With the the next 12 shots they will be very quick cuts that are cut in time with your horror music. This shot the camera will be running with the legs as they run giving the effect that the audience are running with them.

14. The next close up shot will show the characters acting skills and also there emotion or shock. Again this cut will be very short.

15. The reason we wanted to have a quick cut with and floor camera angle was that it gives the audience something diffrent instead of just the victims and protaganists face and body either running or looking shocked. With the shoe running over the keys shows the characters running away without time to pick her keys up indicating paniking.

16. The high angle shot makes us feel that the victum doesnt mean much as were looking down on her banging on the door trying to run away.

17. This shot slows down the trailer just a little as she turns her head very slowly in a close up angle. Her face shows a shocking/scared emoiton. This is enfoced by the next shot.

18. With the lighting on this very quick cut shot it is blacked out and all you can see is a sillohet. The reasoin for this is that we didnt want to show too much as we wouldnt know the audience waching but we wanted to show the basic idea of what was happening in a clever way.

19. With this shot we wanted to show the emontion in the film and how it was not just affecting the progtaganist but alsoi the victims and this long shot is perfect. The way she is gurled up in a corner shows the audeince that she is scared and upset which could mean anything and we want to know why.

20. Again we wanted to play with light and mystery so useing the light to create a blacked out shiloet and with this high angled shot gives us the mystrey of who this person is but also gives them automatic power this the shot angle.

21. The shot on the floor gives the victum less power and looking helpless as she vrys on the floor of what wilk be dirt, the quick cut will give us a glimps of the fact that there might be no hope in the film.

22. the shot with one of the character hiding and us knowing that the attacker is there makes the audience on edge and just as something is going to progress we cut to the next shot giveing mystry and supense.

23. The cut will go into a black out where the film title will fade in and out. The title's font,colour and size will suit the trailer and film. So this will proberly be white like car headlights and in a font that looks a bit like trees.

24. In a trailer you always remember the first and last shot fo to give the audience a cliff hanger we wanted a main character to be caught and looking scared and as the attackers hands come over and then cuts out to leave the audience on edge and wanting more.

My initial storyboard.

With my first intials ideas i had the idea of not telling the sotry stright away but jumping into the fast pass part of the film then having a flash back to the beginning of the film. The reason i had the idea to do this was because 99% of film trailers seem to tell and story and build the tension to the end. With theses ideas i thoughrt of having the tension first to make the audeince on edge from the first second of the trailer then relax the tension to make the audience think thats all that will happen but bring them back into the film but having the last shot and last 10seconds on edge again. The whole idea of film trailer: Camera angles,shots and genral idea is not very creative or imagantive but that can be changed and this is my own idea not my groups, who will have alot of input into the trailer aswell as myself.

After looking at everyones ideas as a groupe we started talking about the whole idea of our own film trailer and came up with theses ideas.

Camera angels:With horror the camera angles must make the victim looks innocent while the protaganist looks un-known and scary. Theses can be done by low and high angle shots. Me and my group spoke about the equpitment needed and the tri-pod was the best fitting. Also scanning/panning shots can keep into the genre showing the scary location

Dialoge: In most Horror film trailers there is not much dialoge as they can tell the audience everything they want by using Mise-en-scene and what you show in the shots. So like typicall horror films we will not be adding dialodge as challenging the conventions for such a seriouse film trailer might ruin it.

Editing: With the editing we wanted to make it are professional as possible so we watched alot of diffrent horror trailers and also other genre trailers to see how they differ. We all decied that we wanted it to start of with alot of tension but slow paced to tell part of the story line but not give alot away. Then we want the turning point half way through the trailer from slow paced to fast editing action and alot of drama. This turning point is in every horror film trailer as it draws the audeince in and into wanting to see more of the film. The editing of the shots will be cut into the music again to make it look more professional.

Mise-En-Scene: Through the mise-en-scene of our film trailer we are hoping to show diffrent characters with diffrent angels, lighting.

Setting/Location: Location will be down a lane called 'Bread and cheese' which is quite scary in the day and will be very mood setting at night when we film down there. It is very quiet so there wont be much trouble using the whole of the road.

Genre

Genre is where a type of art,culture or film is put into catorgrys by what is in the setting,dialoge,charcters,mis-en-scene,storyline and also the clothes that they are wearing. Theses diffren genres can be totally diffrent or can be very simular but are changed into diffrent catorageys by simply things.

Adventure: Mostly exicting shots around the world with a story line of a chase or some sort of rise and fall drama. For example 'Tresaure island'

Animation: Films which are either drawn,painted,illastrated or photographyed frame by frame. Films like theses are mostly used for childrens entertainment. e.g Toy Story

Biography: Is a true life story told by another person and normally this would be in a book but it can also be told by film. For exmple 'Socail Network'

Crime: Films that can be created from history gangsta's or modern day gangsta's. The story lines mosty go around the bases or muder,bank robbing or plotting againt the law. For example The shawshank redemtion.

Drama: Theses are serious plots that portry real life situations which make the audience want to watch more and keep them on the edge of their seats from saddness to happyness. For example A time to remember.

Film Noir: Old films in black and white. Most of the storylines show a dark negative outcome such as muder and robbery. They are also mostly set around young handsome men who are captured by the beauty of a woman who turns out to be so innocet than she looks

Action: This genre is very much like adventure but a little more seriouse. They have alot more engery,high thrills and more speical effects. For example fast and furiouse.

Romance: Films based around love and taking the audienceinto the palm of there hands with happyness,sadness and fanstay. These films are very popular with woman. For example Romeo and Juliett.

Romantic Comedy: This type of genre is excatly the same as Romace but instead of it being so seriously told there is an element of comdey in there aswell yet still emiontals gets the audience.

Horror: To scary and in some cases scar you for life. The more mystry and un-known the better. With a sotry line that will keep you on the edge of your seat this is not a genre of film to be taken easy. For example SAW.

Out of all the genre's of films to do a trailer of id love to do horror as there is so many ideas i can take and expland from.

THE DESCENT Theatrical Trailer

As all trailers the Descent starts off with the company logo, for this film its MPAA and Lionsgate, For legal reason they have to show this.

All of a sudden there is quick dramatic sound affect cut into a shot of girls taking a photo of each other. This shot already shows us the characters that are in the film and also by having them all girls shows a certain vulnerability which could be taken advantage of later in the film. Also while the girls photos being taken it cuts into the photo being black and white, maybe this has some sort of sign that the photo will be the last for the girls or maybe even an old photo so it might set the time of the film.

There is a fade into a bird’s eye view of a car driving through a forest with nothing around but trees. This sets the scene and also sets the mood for the film. The music to this is very quiet and seems to be building up the tension which shows us the genre of the film as it’s not a very happy starting to the trailer. With the next cuts it shows the close up the some main characters and their moods. It also again sets the scene and shows us there driving somewhere and a few of the passengers are too pleased about it.

The nest shot is a general happy mood due to the day light scene’s and shows us a simple Mes en scene. With the very quick cuts there is a collection of close up, medium and full body shots. Using these’s shots show us the characters mood and also with the body shot shows us the reason why they are there in the first place, Caving.

The dialog ‘there’s only one way out and that’s down the pipe’ and close up shot of her clicking equipment into her belt starts giving us a nervous edge and this is emphasised by the surprise loud sound affects to go with it.

The way they have used close up shots and only using the lighting from the characters head lights makes us feel very very claustrophobic and makes us feel like were in there with them not being able to breathe. Also using the long shot of the girl stuck in the cave just before the caption makes us really feel and see how small the spaces in the cave are.

The shot fades into a black background with the very small caption of ‘claustrophobia’. The reason they made the caption so small instead of big and readable was to again make you feel like you’re in a very small space, also the font size goes with the shots they are showing us in the cave. The colouring for the font is interesting as it is not a block colour. It looks like it’s the girls headlights through rocks and that there is very little light in the cave. This is a very clever way of emphasises where the characters are.

The next shot is faded in to show us nothing but black and a little bit of light, the dialog is needed here to give the shot another edge. With us seeing nothing and hearing the words ‘I’m coming to get you’ along with heavy breathing make us on edge and feel very nervous for the characters. After seeing an opening and seeing the characters face a sound affect indicates that the cave is closing in on them. So with lot of noise and sound affects we become nervous and want them to get out the cave before they get stuck.

There are more shots of the girls out the cave and also more captions in the same font and size as the ones before. The words give us an indication to what’s happening the film as well. Like the word hallucination gives us a clue that one of the characters is seeing something. The music is echoing and you can also here what sounds like someone breathing heavily but it’s not one of the girls, showing the genre of the film is starting to convey a lot more in this shot.

With the last caption ‘fear’ it flickers like a head light and the sound affects gives us a scare and shows that the trailer is going to have a turning point soon. After the caption you see the girls in very little light screaming and all of a sudden the turning point becomes very clear as you see what the characters shoulders look like a dead body over one. To empathise the turning point very loud sound affect of what sounds like some sort of monster and the girls screaming makes the audience jump and keep us on edge for the rest of the trailer.

The next few dark shots are faded in and out in time with a sound affect of a fast heartbeat. This gives us the impression that the heartbeat is the characters heartbeats scared and racing. This part of the trailer speeds up and makes us feel like we’re speeding up with them and that were there in the film. Also in the shots they add review quotes from magazines like The times which gives us a look into what experts think of the film and if we like the look of what they have said it will give us an interest to go see the rest of the film.

There’s a section in the film where everything speeds up, this section makes us very nervous and not quite understand what is happening or going to happen to the girls in the cave intresting us to go and see the whole thing.

The title is done in the same front and colouring as the captions but a little larger making us remember what it’s called. With the last shots it gives us a last impression of the film and we remember those fast,dark scary shots and cliff hangers which makes us want to go and see the film.

Devil - Official Trailer [HD]

As all film trailers it starts off with the logos of the company’s involved in the film. This includes Universal, MRC and also chronicles which are all huge contributors of making the film Devil and other productions.

The first is what looks like the camera is scanning across the sea but there is no main focus so this shot makes us feel very dizzy, and this is also the opening scène is the actual film. Then all of a sudden the camera tilts upwards to show what looks like New York sky line but upside down. I feel that the reason they have put the skyline upside down is because everything is going to go wrong and maybe its not an ordinary day.
The first caption reads ‘On an ordinary day’. This is just establishing that there is nothing going on that anyone knows about just yet but also doesn’t give to much away. The music is very quite and again doesn’t give to much away yet setting up the tension for later in the trailer.

This is a very quick cut into a woman walking across a reception. The mes-en scène shows us that they are obviously in a work place in the city and by the way she is walking very confidently through the reception it seems like she works there. The words ‘do I look like such a threat’ gives us a little insight into who may be the attacker or who may be dangerous and they may be covering it up. She seems like a Fanfatale innocent on the outside but not so angelic on the inside.

As the same music carries on the next caption says ‘Our life’s are filled’ and the then next ‘With chances encountered’, ‘And random Events’ , ‘But Today’, this gives us an idea that the film is based on chances and maybe destiny.

The shots of 5 men and woman fade in and out showing different expressions and camera angles. This shows us the main characters and a little about there background by the clothes there wearing, the confidence they have in this certain building. Then there is another slow fades shot into a man and women turning around looking into an open lift.

The next shot shows the four main characters in the lift while the lift is closing but as the doors are closing someone says ‘could you hold that please’. As the man in the suit says sorry there’s no room the other man we see saw earlier hold the door with his hand and his response sarcastically ‘thanks for your help’ already makes tension between the characters in the group.
The same music is still playing to keep the quiet atmosphere going.

After another caption the camera looks like it fly’s into the building air vent from the top of the sky scrapper. This is a very clever and different angle to use in a trailer which is always good as it gives us a different dimension to the screen. The camera shot keeps going through the vent and into the slot for the lift. The words ‘everything, happens, for, a, reason’ appear across the lift and as we go through or pass the words we come into the same lift with the same characters as before.
The music cuts as we arrive in the lift and see that the lift breaks down. This is the turning point in the trailer and makes us feel the genre of the film (Horror). The quick cut into a low angle of the building in what looks like a storm coming again shows us that something unkind is about to arrive just like a storm.

The film directors are clever by showing that the lift that is stuck is the 6th lift, and the saying going that the devil comes through the 666 so this is a very interesting way to show the devil is among them without being obvious way.

The director fades some of the characters faces in the cuts and then they have a black out where a sound effect comes in. This sound affect makes the audience a little on edge and then the lights come on and a dazed young woman seems hurts, this is another turning point to the trailer where everything starts going wrong.

The trailer leads onto the other passengers suspecting one man into thinking he was the one that hurt the girl which give the audience something to think about and keep the story line as a surprises as in the film it doesn’t turn out to be him. A few shots of the outside building in the storm enhance the bad atmosphere in the trailer, also the mid shots of the lift not being able to open shows that the characters are not going anywhere soon.

The captions ‘One of theses five people aren’t who they say they are’ gives us an indication that its one of the main characters and nothing outside. This makes the audience suspect each and every one of them while they watch the trailer and film. This is a good way of showing the audience that it won’t just be an obvious story line.

The music kicks in at some point and also the cuts get a lot shorter so that they don’t tell the whole story line in the trailer. The shots show us that its everyone for them self in that lift, there’s nothing or no one to help them. The horror genre really conveys at this fast turning point of the trailer.

The best part of the trailer for me is when they use the sound effects of the lift to change the fading shots. This is a really clever part of the film as it makes the audience feel that the trailer is slowing and claming down when its really just building up the suspense

With a trailer you always remember the first and last shot and I feel that with the last shot the audience will really remember this as it makes you jump because it’s so unexpected after a quiet few shots before.

The whole devil trailer is good by the way they use there music, shots and sound affects to capture the audience.

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Freytag's Pyramid Structure.

According to Freytag, a drama is divided into five parts, or acts,which some refer to as a dramatic arc: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and dénouement.

Although Freytag's analysis of dramatic structure is based on five-act plays, it can be applied (sometimes in a modified manner) to short stories and novels as well. Nonetheless the pyramid is not always easy to use, especially in modern plays such as Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy", which is actually divided into 25 scenes without concrete acts.

]Exposition

The exposition provides the background information needed to properly understand the story, such as the protagonist, the antagonist, the basic conflict, and the setting. It ends with the inciting moment, which is the incident without which there would be no story. The inciting moment sets the remainder of the story in motion beginning with the second act, the rising action. While the exposition may employ the rhetorical mode also known as exposition, the two are not perfectly synonymous.

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rising action

During rising action, the basic internal conflict is complicated by the introduction of related secondary conflicts, including various obstacles that frustrate the protagonist's attempt to reach his goal. Secondary conflicts can include adversaries of lesser importance than the story’s antagonist, who may work with the antagonist or separately, by and for themselves or actions unknown.

Climax

The third act is that of the climax, or turning point, which marks a change, for the better or the worse, in the protagonist’s affairs. If the story is a comedy, things will have gone badly for the protagonist up to this point; now, the tide, so to speak, will turn, and things will begin to go well for him or her. If the story is a tragedy, the opposite state of affairs will ensue, with things going from good to bad for the protagonist.

Falling action

During the falling action, or resolution, which is the moment of reversal after the climax, the conflict between the protagonist and the antagonist unravels, with the protagonist winning or losing against the antagonist. The falling action might contain a moment of final suspense, during which the final outcome of the conflict is in doubt. Which is also the outcome of what happened in the rising action and the climax.Summery: The falling action is that part of the story were the main part (the climax) has finished and you're heading to the conclusion.

Introduction.

This blog will be a document of the work ive done for my A2 media coursework. The part of the course work i will be working with 3 other people in my class to make out own Horror Trailer. This includes doingthe filming,editiing and sound by outself. The second part is where also produce to print outs including: a film poster, and film magazine cover.
To do this i will have to use the skills that ive leanrt in my AS level such as, photoshop and also the theory side of the filming (mes en scen,camera angles and meanings) also the study of televison drama will be put to great use while filming and making my trailer.