Making Our Decision

We were given the option to produce either a music video or a film trailer. After discussion we decided we would like to produce a film trailer, film poster and DVD cover as we thought it would be challenging and different from anything we've done before! After some discussion we decided our film trailer would be of the horror genre as we thought it would allow us to explore different film mediums e.g. tension filled music and dark eery lighting.
To gain, at least, adequate information on the conventions of trailers and the conventions of horror films we would have to undertake in deppth research. The trailer it self will have to be the main focus of our research as there's so much to look at. So we will analyse five or six trailers all of the horror genre. The aspects in which we'll researcht, range from the fairly wide uses of mise-en-scene - E.g. clothing, setting, props  and location, to the more specific choices of varying lighting, dialogue, camera shots and angles and sound. By analysing five or more texts we'll be able to find common threads of the genre and adapt our pieces to fit the conventions. Similarly in depth research will have to be used to analyse our poster and DVD pieces. Lighting, positioning and camera shots etc will also be looked at so our print-based pieces will have a professional look. 

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