Initial Ideas

THIS WAS AT THE BEGGINING OF OUR RESEARCH, HOWEVER THE SCHOOL DECIDED TO SWITCH BLOGS, THIS IS WHY IT HAS ONLY JUST BEEN POSTED


Research and Inspiration
Introduction

Breif/Initial Ideas

We where given a wide veriety of breifs, however as a group of 4 we decided to produce a promotional package for a new film which includes the main task of producing a teaser trailer, but also creating the front cover for a film magazine and a promotional poster for our new film. From previous work duiring AS I feel that having some experience working with video and print will enable us to build on our skills we already have and learn from mistakes to create some high quality peices of work. As for being in quite a big group, I feel that if we manage our time properly and work to deadlines we can seperate out the three tasks so we can make a very good end result.

As a group we had a discussion about which way we wished to take the breif and what we could do with it to make it a success. We all had similar interest in producing a new horror film. We have all seen similiar horror films and understand the conventions used in them, and understand that there are two main types of horror, either horrors with a phsycological or gory slant to them. We where more attracted to the gory side as we felt we could possibly create somthing quite life-like if we did sufficient research. However we liked the idea of having an underlying slight phsycological story to our film to make it more interesting than just a typical murder film which has been seen a lot of times before. We wanted to create somthing new that has a twist to it. We also liked the idea of making our trailer shocking, disturbing and twisted, which gets attention from an audience and makes them feel uneasy.


As we had decided on producing a horror that was to disturb and shock an audeince, with an underlying twist we decided to start looking for inspiration of other media products such as film trailers of the same genre, Music videos which capture the same feeling we wish to create in the way of editing and creepy visuals, and reasearch into the sort of real life characters and settings in which disturbing events could take place to help us create visions of characters, mise en scene,storylines,colour schemes,sound and finally editing.