i have added the teaser trailer here on the blog, if you look on the right side of my blog you can see that i also have the teaser trailer from youtube on it so it can be accessed quickly, instead of trying to find it from all the postings.
As you can see unlike other Horror teaser trailers or even trailers, ours is mostly set in day light! you must be thinking WHY??!!
well the reason this has been done is because people are not scared of the day! it their comfort zone, people stay in during the night because they feel unsafe around the time as it is dark! but we challenged this convention of setting in the DARK to make it day time so people feel scared and can say "omg things like this can happen during the day!" so yes we have challenged a convention and for a good reason too! =]
as you can see the music we have used is orchestral church music, this was done due to the fact that we have so much religious symbols and meaning and usage in our teaser that it just fits in perfectly! also as we have used the olden type biblical writing for the title of the movie that its perfect! it creates the exact affect that we wanted, we have put the right notes, high sounds and scary parts of the music in the right places of the teaser so that it fits nicely and is not out of place.
we speeded up some of the durations and added effects all on photoshop premier pro. this i must say i have never used before! EVER! so it was a new experience for me, i must say i did enjoy it and i learnt it quite quickly! i also learned a lot of short cuts for example c = cut, very exciting!
instead of using a voice over we have used text in our teaser trailer through out in different places: Death, Destruction and Darkness follows. we decided not to use voice overs because there is a lot going on in the trailer and we feel that the music is very important in our trailer and we did not want the a voice over taking the audiences attention.
We used blood in our teaser trailer this is what makes it an 18! we used blood because it is one of the conventions of horror, a lot of horror films use it, as it represents death, and death is a scary thought!
we used a knife as well! that is used in films such as Halloween (1976), a weapon is a convention of the horror genre and its mostly a knife, this is something that is found in every household.
we tried to use the Final girl theory but we challenged it and subverted it a bit, the final girls in other horror movies have androgynous names, wear baggy dark clothes, hair in pony tails and are innocent. however we challenged this convention, the final girl in our horror movie has a name that is Elizabeth, this name is a very olden time name, she is a murderer although it is her mother that kills people it is still her body and that is how we have challeneged it so much! our final girl is very innocent as she does not know what is happening to her.
we used a lot of conventions for camera shots and angles, and we challeneged it =] this is by using the dolly shot which no horror teaser trailer actually use because it takes long, however we used it and then we speeded up the duration.
over all we are happy with our teaser trailer, and our feedback showed that the audience enjoyed it very much too! we got a lot of positive feedback, as you can see on my evaluation
one negative feedback was that there was too much in the woods, looking at our trailer after i also think that this comment is true, if we are given the chance to change anything we would have less, probably add a different scene or change the way it is set.
WE are definetly happy with it and i really enjoyed making it and i learned a lot! very much!
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