Evaluation

Question One

When creating our horror trailer, we

used many horror forms and

conventions in different ways.

Researching into horror trailers has

helped massively when figuring

out how we wanted our trailer to

be. We have used many

conventions that we have found

when researching into other

trailers.

Narrative

Within our trailer, we decided to release a lot

of the storyline so that the audiences

attention is grabbed, this often happens

with low budget films. When creating our

trailer we challenged the convention of

how much information was released as most

horror trailer don’t give very minimal

information away. However, we did use the

convention of making a low budget trailer.

Story and PlotWhen creating our horror trailer we wanted to

create something that an audience would

want to watch. The trailer is based upon a

group of normal girls living in a house together,

even though each individual is not seen

throughout the whole trailer itself. The typical

horror trauma begins as the group of girls find a

box with a possessed diary inside of it. This is

then what most of the trailer is based on as the

diary managed to possess one of the girls. A

range of personalities are then used as the

possessed girls life completely changes.

ResearchOnce we had came to the decision that we wanted to

create a horror trailer, we researched into trailers within

same genre. We looked into the different conventions of

famous well-known horrors and found ways to place

similar things into our trailer as we wanted our final

project to turn out successful for an audience to watch.

We then went into understanding the codes and

conventions that would be used on a horror magazine

cover and poster and researched into other ones so

that our cover and posters would be successful and

stand out to an audience. I found that a lot of them

used a dark colour palette such as blacks and greys to

connotate horror and danger and also red as this

represents blood.

EditingWhile editing we had to get an idea of what the editing is

like in successful horror trailers and looked at how each

trailer is different, this helped when thinking about how

we wanted our trailer to be set out. Our trailer is built up

of little sections which have been placed in a

chronological order. The trailers starts with things that

happen later within the film so that this draws the

audience in. The trailer we have created starts off with a

dark shot which is not normally used within trailers. The

final sections of the trailer are a build up to the final

scare, we followed the convention of having a final

scare as we found that this is what most successful horror

trailers do.

Music and SoundThroughout our trailer we haven’t used much

dialogue as this is a way to make the audience

wonder what is going on, this challenges horror

trailers as most of them involve a lot of speech

throughout the whole of the trailer. When we

decided on what music we wanted to use, we

were inspired by the music from Sinister as this fits

well with out trailer. To use the music from this, we

had to get permission from the directors which we

ended up getting. We used the music as a strong

way of getting the audience attention.