First short takes of my trailer

This is the possible first 45 seconds of my horror film trailer.

Length of Trailer

I have been thinking about tthe length of my movie trailer, the research suggest that an average trailer is somewhere between 1-1:30 minutes and a theatrical trailer is about 1:30-2 minutes. I have decided that my trailer will be around 2 minutes long. It took me a while to come to this decision as i want there to be enough of my trailer to hook people in and them want to watch the movie but dont actually give the story line a way.

Risk Assessmnet

When filming my footage for my film trailer,I will need to take a number of possible scenarios into acount that could affect the filming process:

• The scene which includes my actor falling down the stairs, could result in possible neck injuries and even broken bones. I will address this problem by placing safety mats and pillows on the stairs to break the actors fall.
• With there being filming in the dark there will be minimum lighting so lack of vision could affect the stability of my actor and he could walk into an object and possible break a bone so I will make sure that before filming there will be no random objects lting around on the floor.

Actor

practice take 1- falling down the stairs

wayman falling down the stairs from Josh on Vimeo.

Camera angles and shots

storyboard for horror trailer

Props

Location

The location of the film trailer will be filmed at my house as its a convenient for both me and my other actor, the house is an normal home with a loft conversion which will be where i will be filming most of my trailer.

Clothing

Lighting

As all of my filming will be in a house there will be ample lighting for daytime filming, but night filiming I will be using the night vision effect on the camera as I feel it will add to the amateur filming and make the trailer feel more realistic that its actual footage of the couple being terrorised by an evil demon.

Update

I have now completed the research criteria of the task and now moved on to planning of the film trailer. I have already completed the storyboard and chosen the actors/ actresses but im curretly experience difficulties up loading these so there will be uploaded as soon as I can.

A2 Advanced Portfolio- Target Audience

My target audince for the film trailer of a comedy horror will be;

• rated 15 by the BBFC
• 15-21 will be the main target age of the trailer
• people who are interested in horrors and the paranormal activtiy movies.
• not aimed at one specific gender

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A2 Media Film Trailer Genre

My genre for my film trailer will be  horror. I have chosen this genre as I feel I will work best with the chosen genre as most f my favourite films are horrors. i have decided to use the hand held camera filming effects similar used in the paranormal franchise and blair witch project.
In these films there's commonly;

• Bloody scenes
• Death
• Tension
• Ghostly activity
• Still camera shots
• people being possessed

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Introduction to A2 media studies blog

Hey, im Josh Cucyk and this is my A2 Media Blog. The contents of this blog will consist of movie trailer mainly comedies and horros as my chosen trailer genre is comedy horror. Thoughout this blog it will be me analysing film trailers, DVD covers and film posters, and my attempt to make my own trailer, DVD covers and film posters.