#38 Radio Trailer Inspiration

The other trailers that I looked at inspired me a lot in terms of the way my trailer sounds. I really liked the idea of using heavy breathing, as it connotes panic and fear very strongly to the audience, instantly suggesting that the main characters are in danger. The use of a deep male voice was also very inspiring to me as it creates a sense of horror, through the way that the voice is not soft and friendly, it is harsh and unwelcoming to the audience. Additionally I was inspired to use tension building music as it would keep my audience engaged to the trailer, and want to go and see the film in the cinema. The calm music also creates an idea of mixed levels of fear throughout, which would engage any fan of the thriller genre.

I feel that due to my research into radio trailers, the conventions that I looked at inspired me to create a radio trailer that I believe to be very successful.

#37 Radio Trailer Research

For my media film I had to create a way to advertise the film that I have created. One way that I could do this is would be through trailers on the radio. For my radio trailer to be successful and achieve what it was meant to it was important that I looked at other radio trailers for similar films and genres. I looked at two radio trailers online, Insidious and Paranormal Activity 3, and found it very hard to find radio trailers on the internet, and the trailers I found were very limited. I then looked at a few TV radio trailers, to get further knowledge to help create my own trailer.

I found that most horror trailer appear to be very similar. The trailers usually last around 30-40 seconds, and feature a very deep male voice as a narrator, usually someone who is not a character in the film, as this creates a fear of the unknown. Key information is also included as this is important to inform the audience of the details about the film, such as; the release date, the age rating, if the film is on DVD or in cinemas. Additionally, like posters, the trailers sometime also include other films made by the same people, 'from the makers of'. Extracts from the actual film are also used, these are cleverly constructed to tell the story but not reveal all to the audience, it creates a desire for the audience to find out more, by seeing the film. All of the trailer is usually constructed with conventional horror music in the background. A slogan is also used to make you remember about the film, for example with Insidious the slogan was 'it's not the house that's haunted'.

Whilst researching radio trailers I created a mind map of my findings:

These are the two trailers that I looked at:

#36 Poster Distribution

In order to test if my poster looked genuine, I used photoshop to create an image of what my poster would look like if displayed on a billboard. The first image shows a billboard outside a shopping centre. The second image shows a billboard likely to be near a busy road or in a busy town. I feel that my poster works very well and I am very pleased with it, and how genuine it looks.

Poster outside shopping centre:

Poster near busy road/town:

#35 The Red Cloak Poster

The feedback from showing the first draft of my film poster was very positive, and I feel pleased with continuing to use this poster. I have added a quote, a website and information about the publisher to the poster to make it more conventional. I also tried a technique on photoshop called Revert which had a nice outcome but I feel I will stick with the original poster.

Poster:

Poster using 'revert' technique:

Grade for film: Level One (0-14)

Hi George,

You need a lot of work on the editing.... Only 1m long so that's a major issue. Aside from that the editing doesn't help tell the story as well as it should. You need to arrange a time to work with me on this.

#34 The Red Cloak First Draft

I have now completed the first draft for my film, The Red Cloak. Below is my film as it currently is, without sound and with still some tweaks to make to it. I am very happy with it and look forward to finishing my second draft as I am very interested to compare the improvements, and see what works and what didn't. I have also attached my original first draft of my film before I made changes to actresses used.

First Draft:


Original First Draft:

#33 Poster Planning Sketches

To avoid wasting loads of time continuously changing my idea and having to retake the photographs I have created a sketch of what I would like my finished poster to look like. I would like to stick to this and take the pictures to fit with this and the layout to be similar. Drawing this has prepared me for creating my poster and I now have a better idea of what I am doing. Below is the sketch I have made for what I want my poster to look like.