NOTE TO PEOPLE IN MY GROUP
Don't worry bout the whole trailer thing, cos Mr Babu said that he'll make us a copy of our original one when the exams are over!
Farah
Friday, 11 May 2007
Thursday, 10 May 2007
And now I am sad, because the wrong trailer was put onto the DVD! We made one and copied it because we needed to make alot of changes at one point and because both of them had the same title Mr Babu got confused and accidentally put the wrong one onto the CD! It's no one's fault but it's a dissapointing situation so if it doesn't look that good you know why...
Farah
Farah
Monday, 7 May 2007
Farah's Final Progress Report!
December 2007
Finally we have completed our production and were given positive feedback. Thankfully our trailer did turn out kinda like we had imagined it would be and it's really satisfying to see all of our hard work paying off...actually we need to find out our grade first! Me and Lamia came in last week to sort out the final things that we were told to change including removing one institution which we changed totally by bringing in a new institution, '20th Century Fox'. So in the end it all turned out great and I am very proud of us!
December 2007 Sunday, 6 May 2007
Practical Production Evaluation - ‘The Pulse Of Darkness’ 2007
For my practical production I worked within a group of four people to create a
Hollywood horror movie trailer called ‘The pulse of darkness’. Since we have
used the word ‘darkness’ in our title, it was important for us to emphasis this
within our trailer by using many of our low key lighting shots in order to convey
this to the audience. Our trailer revolves around a female protagonist who is
also the villain of our story, out to get her vengeance on the woman who
destroyed her life causing her to turn to the ‘darkness’ for her sanctuary. The
audience that we will target will be working class female adults of all ethnicities since our trailer will portray two females in the key roles with one
being Caucasian and the other being Asian, while being set in an urban
working class area therefore serving a purpose of personal identity in some
form.
As we have chosen to produce a Hollywood trailer we’ve used ‘20th Century
Fox’ as our institution as it is recognised as a usual Hollywood institution and
this therefore gives our trailer an authentic look which may appeal to our
target audience due to the fact that they may have a liking for Hollywood films.
Our working title to start off with was ‘Blind Date’ and we began to realise that
throughout the editing process the narrative of our trailer had to be altered
since we decided to replace our lighter shots with our low key lighted ones in
order to relate our trailer with the study of ‘film noir’, therefore removing key
elements of the proposed storyline. This was also useful for us to create a
sense of enigma within the trailer in order to keep the target audience on edge
and eager to view the film on its release and also to relate our work to Barthes
theory of gripping the audience throughout the text by using enigma codes.
We decided that the best way to go about our editing was for the whole group
to be present during each editing session as we found that when we tried to
work separately, there were aspects of our trailer that other group members
did not like or differed on. By all of us being there we were able to give an
equal input into our production and make mutual decisions such as changing
the narrative of the trailer to make it better suited to the genre.
However, we also found that the music that we had chosen to accompany our
trailer was not parallel to the final product and therefore did not link to the
genre. My job was to therefore search for music that was better suited to our
trailer and luckily within a day I was able to come across some useful piece
of music and sound effects that juxtaposed well with our narrative.
We were also given constructive criticism and were told that in
order to give a real representation of Hollywood, we would have to add an
authentic Hollywood institution to our trailer and this is when we decided to
choose ‘20th Century Fox’ as this has been an institute for successful horror
movies throughout the years such as ”The Omen” (1976) and “The Hills Have
Eyes” (2006). Hasnaa then took the responsibility of finding the institution and adding it to our work. I took the responsibility of structuring our trailer and estimating which shot was worth keeping to make it appealing to our target audience. Lamia and Valeria were mainly on hand as our technical helpers and were very accommodating when it came to working the Adobe Premiere Pro which made it easier for us to complete our trailer on time. They also gave their personal input into the production. By working closely together we were able to gain a sense of group achievement.
As we have seen in many Hollywood movie trailers the use of a voiceover has
always been present, but we decided that it would be interesting if we did not
follow this stereotype and let our trailer be self explanatory through it’s linear
narrative with the help of titles in between shots to stimulate the minds of our
audiences and draw them in to find our more about the film. However, our
montage sequence does not involve any titles in between or any music,
instead we have used the sound of a heartbeat which slowly builds up the
tension leading to the revelation of the film’s title.
We decided to open our trailer with an establishing shot of the setting in order
to grab the viewers attention and then led this to shots of the villain in a vague
image in order to create enigma. We then wanted to change the speed of the trailer from slow to fast so that we could offer something more interesting to
our audience. This proved to be very successful as when we had the mentors
view it, they agreed with this decision and admitted that it kept them hooked
on the trailer to see what would happen next.
Once our production was complete we found that one of the shots that we
used were a little too dark and therefore could confuse the audience in
recognising the image that they are seeing. Another weakness that we found
in our final piece was that the montage sequence may have been a bit too
long and may also seem give the audience a chance to lose interest in the
events occurring. However, we feel that it may be useful in building tension
and enigma as many other horror trailers do.
The strengths of our production I was the soundtrack. We found that
when people viewed it they were first to comment on the impact that the
soundtrack had on trailer. We also felt a great sense of authenticity when we
saw the opening of our trailer as it involved usual Hollywood conventions of a
trailer’s opening such as the representation of our institution of ‘20th Century
Fox’ and the establishing shot as we had seen many times throughout our research of horror movie trailers.
As I wrote in my brief, even though the narrative of our production has
changed we still believe that it would be a movie most likely to appear on
channel 4 or ITV as it still appeals to a more younger variety of audience and
those who seek to be entertained as well as informed therefore accepting
violence in their movies as a form of entertainment.
For my practical production I worked within a group of four people to create a
Hollywood horror movie trailer called ‘The pulse of darkness’. Since we have
used the word ‘darkness’ in our title, it was important for us to emphasis this
within our trailer by using many of our low key lighting shots in order to convey
this to the audience. Our trailer revolves around a female protagonist who is
also the villain of our story, out to get her vengeance on the woman who
destroyed her life causing her to turn to the ‘darkness’ for her sanctuary. The
audience that we will target will be working class female adults of all ethnicities since our trailer will portray two females in the key roles with one
being Caucasian and the other being Asian, while being set in an urban
working class area therefore serving a purpose of personal identity in some
form.
As we have chosen to produce a Hollywood trailer we’ve used ‘20th Century
Fox’ as our institution as it is recognised as a usual Hollywood institution and
this therefore gives our trailer an authentic look which may appeal to our
target audience due to the fact that they may have a liking for Hollywood films.
Our working title to start off with was ‘Blind Date’ and we began to realise that
throughout the editing process the narrative of our trailer had to be altered
since we decided to replace our lighter shots with our low key lighted ones in
order to relate our trailer with the study of ‘film noir’, therefore removing key
elements of the proposed storyline. This was also useful for us to create a
sense of enigma within the trailer in order to keep the target audience on edge
and eager to view the film on its release and also to relate our work to Barthes
theory of gripping the audience throughout the text by using enigma codes.
We decided that the best way to go about our editing was for the whole group
to be present during each editing session as we found that when we tried to
work separately, there were aspects of our trailer that other group members
did not like or differed on. By all of us being there we were able to give an
equal input into our production and make mutual decisions such as changing
the narrative of the trailer to make it better suited to the genre.
However, we also found that the music that we had chosen to accompany our
trailer was not parallel to the final product and therefore did not link to the
genre. My job was to therefore search for music that was better suited to our
trailer and luckily within a day I was able to come across some useful piece
of music and sound effects that juxtaposed well with our narrative.
We were also given constructive criticism and were told that in
order to give a real representation of Hollywood, we would have to add an
authentic Hollywood institution to our trailer and this is when we decided to
choose ‘20th Century Fox’ as this has been an institute for successful horror
movies throughout the years such as ”The Omen” (1976) and “The Hills Have
Eyes” (2006). Hasnaa then took the responsibility of finding the institution and adding it to our work. I took the responsibility of structuring our trailer and estimating which shot was worth keeping to make it appealing to our target audience. Lamia and Valeria were mainly on hand as our technical helpers and were very accommodating when it came to working the Adobe Premiere Pro which made it easier for us to complete our trailer on time. They also gave their personal input into the production. By working closely together we were able to gain a sense of group achievement.
As we have seen in many Hollywood movie trailers the use of a voiceover has
always been present, but we decided that it would be interesting if we did not
follow this stereotype and let our trailer be self explanatory through it’s linear
narrative with the help of titles in between shots to stimulate the minds of our
audiences and draw them in to find our more about the film. However, our
montage sequence does not involve any titles in between or any music,
instead we have used the sound of a heartbeat which slowly builds up the
tension leading to the revelation of the film’s title.
We decided to open our trailer with an establishing shot of the setting in order
to grab the viewers attention and then led this to shots of the villain in a vague
image in order to create enigma. We then wanted to change the speed of the trailer from slow to fast so that we could offer something more interesting to
our audience. This proved to be very successful as when we had the mentors
view it, they agreed with this decision and admitted that it kept them hooked
on the trailer to see what would happen next.
Once our production was complete we found that one of the shots that we
used were a little too dark and therefore could confuse the audience in
recognising the image that they are seeing. Another weakness that we found
in our final piece was that the montage sequence may have been a bit too
long and may also seem give the audience a chance to lose interest in the
events occurring. However, we feel that it may be useful in building tension
and enigma as many other horror trailers do.
The strengths of our production I was the soundtrack. We found that
when people viewed it they were first to comment on the impact that the
soundtrack had on trailer. We also felt a great sense of authenticity when we
saw the opening of our trailer as it involved usual Hollywood conventions of a
trailer’s opening such as the representation of our institution of ‘20th Century
Fox’ and the establishing shot as we had seen many times throughout our research of horror movie trailers.
As I wrote in my brief, even though the narrative of our production has
changed we still believe that it would be a movie most likely to appear on
channel 4 or ITV as it still appeals to a more younger variety of audience and
those who seek to be entertained as well as informed therefore accepting
violence in their movies as a form of entertainment.
Farah Khan
Friday, 4 May 2007
Progress Report
This past week, Hasna and Lamia gave me the feed back from whether we need to make any final improvements to our trailer. Fortunately our trailer proves really good and no final changes need to be made. I am really happy with the end result and hopeful that we will get a good grade as we all worked really hard to produce it. All the extra editing we did really made a difference and as a result our trailer proves realistic as it conforms to the horror conventions.
By Valeria
By Valeria
Thursday, 3 May 2007
Practical Prodution Evaulation
My Practical Production evaluation- ‘pulse of darkness’
My practical production is consisting of four group members in which we all worked together to produce a film trailer entitled “Pulse of Darkness”. Our trailer embodies a horror genre which features a disillusioned female protagonist who murders innocent victims-purely for her own entertainment in her mental state of mind. From the use of ‘darkness’ being present in the title on a conational level it emphasizes negative occurrences which mostly takes place in the dark, which enforces the creepy environment strongly associated. The use of ‘pulse’ indicates the emotional anxiety which will result in the victim’s heart beat increasing from feelings of tension experienced. This as a result would force the viewer to identify with the victim’s tense anxiety created as they are witnessing the pain.
To ensure every group member had an active role during production, we all cooperated and worked together which resulted in experience gained by everyone involved. However, in terms of editing the production my group were assigned a lap top to edit, in which on countless occasions we experienced technical problems as it kept freezing, however everyone was motivated and therefore worked hard together to ensure the completion of editing.
After studying “Triumph of the Will”in Module Two, the use of parallel music present which as a result proved effective and complimented the action occurring. This influenced our decisions to use a parallel soundtrack, which is to coincide with the creepy atmosphere created. This is easily identified throughout the trailer in shots depicting horror and tense emotion, in which the music proves eerie and creates suspense. We also used point of view shots which are also prominent in “Triumph of the Will” in the hope that the audience can identify with the victim and as a result adopt the tense, scared emotions that the victim embodies.
Horror conventions were followed, we ensured a variety of close ups were used of the victim to illustrate her fearful facial expressions, this shot was used to capture the blood stained knife to invoke fear from the audience as that naturally would raise alarm and create enigma as a cut occurred thereafter. Films such as “Halloween”, “Silence of the lambs” and “Saw”. These three successful horror films all influenced and instigated relevant ideas for our linear narrative. Our trailer conformed to Propp’s theory from the use to include a hero and a villain which was made aware and therefore prominent in the running scenes illustrating the strong effort experienced by the victim to escape the villain. This was further portrayed in the close up of the victim screaming “help!”.
There were many strengths present, they are existent in the mise en scene which was present. It was accurate as it complimented the horror genre and complimented the horror genre and suited the codes and conventions which are actively present in horror films. This was easily identified from the blood stained knife- an icon greatly used by the villain to inflict pain in the history of horror films, also the blood stained victim, which created the illusion she was really injured. This resulted in the trailer proving realistic. Another strength, is the fact that we chose to include a female to represent the villain, as in most horror films, the male tends to adopt this role. Therefore, it obliterates stereotypes surrounding females and challenges the patriarchal ideology. A last strength was the villian’s face being obscured in her hood, which created enigma, which conformed to Barthe’s theory of enigma. This would appeal to the target audience as their perceptions of a horror film are being satisfied as they are engaged in the sinister shots.
There were however weaknesses in our production, in the form of the setting which was unoriginal, as many horror films have located in a house therefore reduced the feeling of authenticity. We should have located in an original setting to enforce authenticity, which therefore would have proved interesting.
The two suitable institutions for our trailer will be Miramax and Metro Goldwyn Mayer. This is due to the fact that they are both two successful important studios in which they have produced a range of successful films. Miramax is well known to have distributed flourishing horror films such as “Dracula 3” (2005) “Hellraiser”, (2005) and “Scary Movie 4”. (2006) Metro Goldwyn Mayer distributed many thriving popular films such as “Hannibal”, (2001) “Amityville” (2005) “The Brother’s Grimm” (2005) and “The Vampire Hunter” (2001) such films helped in providing us to use various devices in our trailer, some of which are included in the films stated, such as pain, suffering, torture and blood being an iconic symbol.
Therefore, “Pulse of Darkness” aims to fulfill its aim to entertain its primary target audience in the form of evoking fear and enigma throughout the montage sequence. Working together as a group ensured the success of the trailer. It proved enjoyable, however stressful at times, as we has to be dedicated to complete the editing. It we had the opportunity to produce another horror trailer or film, we would relocate to somewhere authentic and unique to create realism, we would also use a voice over which was not present in our trailer, this would therefore prove more realistic as it would add to the audience being engaged and conformed to trailer conventions.
By Valeria
My practical production is consisting of four group members in which we all worked together to produce a film trailer entitled “Pulse of Darkness”. Our trailer embodies a horror genre which features a disillusioned female protagonist who murders innocent victims-purely for her own entertainment in her mental state of mind. From the use of ‘darkness’ being present in the title on a conational level it emphasizes negative occurrences which mostly takes place in the dark, which enforces the creepy environment strongly associated. The use of ‘pulse’ indicates the emotional anxiety which will result in the victim’s heart beat increasing from feelings of tension experienced. This as a result would force the viewer to identify with the victim’s tense anxiety created as they are witnessing the pain.
To ensure every group member had an active role during production, we all cooperated and worked together which resulted in experience gained by everyone involved. However, in terms of editing the production my group were assigned a lap top to edit, in which on countless occasions we experienced technical problems as it kept freezing, however everyone was motivated and therefore worked hard together to ensure the completion of editing.
After studying “Triumph of the Will”in Module Two, the use of parallel music present which as a result proved effective and complimented the action occurring. This influenced our decisions to use a parallel soundtrack, which is to coincide with the creepy atmosphere created. This is easily identified throughout the trailer in shots depicting horror and tense emotion, in which the music proves eerie and creates suspense. We also used point of view shots which are also prominent in “Triumph of the Will” in the hope that the audience can identify with the victim and as a result adopt the tense, scared emotions that the victim embodies.
Horror conventions were followed, we ensured a variety of close ups were used of the victim to illustrate her fearful facial expressions, this shot was used to capture the blood stained knife to invoke fear from the audience as that naturally would raise alarm and create enigma as a cut occurred thereafter. Films such as “Halloween”, “Silence of the lambs” and “Saw”. These three successful horror films all influenced and instigated relevant ideas for our linear narrative. Our trailer conformed to Propp’s theory from the use to include a hero and a villain which was made aware and therefore prominent in the running scenes illustrating the strong effort experienced by the victim to escape the villain. This was further portrayed in the close up of the victim screaming “help!”.
There were many strengths present, they are existent in the mise en scene which was present. It was accurate as it complimented the horror genre and complimented the horror genre and suited the codes and conventions which are actively present in horror films. This was easily identified from the blood stained knife- an icon greatly used by the villain to inflict pain in the history of horror films, also the blood stained victim, which created the illusion she was really injured. This resulted in the trailer proving realistic. Another strength, is the fact that we chose to include a female to represent the villain, as in most horror films, the male tends to adopt this role. Therefore, it obliterates stereotypes surrounding females and challenges the patriarchal ideology. A last strength was the villian’s face being obscured in her hood, which created enigma, which conformed to Barthe’s theory of enigma. This would appeal to the target audience as their perceptions of a horror film are being satisfied as they are engaged in the sinister shots.
There were however weaknesses in our production, in the form of the setting which was unoriginal, as many horror films have located in a house therefore reduced the feeling of authenticity. We should have located in an original setting to enforce authenticity, which therefore would have proved interesting.
The two suitable institutions for our trailer will be Miramax and Metro Goldwyn Mayer. This is due to the fact that they are both two successful important studios in which they have produced a range of successful films. Miramax is well known to have distributed flourishing horror films such as “Dracula 3” (2005) “Hellraiser”, (2005) and “Scary Movie 4”. (2006) Metro Goldwyn Mayer distributed many thriving popular films such as “Hannibal”, (2001) “Amityville” (2005) “The Brother’s Grimm” (2005) and “The Vampire Hunter” (2001) such films helped in providing us to use various devices in our trailer, some of which are included in the films stated, such as pain, suffering, torture and blood being an iconic symbol.
Therefore, “Pulse of Darkness” aims to fulfill its aim to entertain its primary target audience in the form of evoking fear and enigma throughout the montage sequence. Working together as a group ensured the success of the trailer. It proved enjoyable, however stressful at times, as we has to be dedicated to complete the editing. It we had the opportunity to produce another horror trailer or film, we would relocate to somewhere authentic and unique to create realism, we would also use a voice over which was not present in our trailer, this would therefore prove more realistic as it would add to the audience being engaged and conformed to trailer conventions.
By Valeria
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