Directors Featurette

Evaluation Part 4

Evaluation Part 3

Evaluation Part 2

Evaluation Part 1

Cut - Finished Horror Trailer

Evaluation Screening

Question Asked:

What did you like about the final trailer?

Answers Given:

- Good use of diegetic sound

- Pacing (x3)

- Good use of montage

- Knife sound effect

- Clear Narrative (x12)

- Good use of body horror (x11)

- Effective music (x10)

- Clever use of phallic symbol with knife

- Unique concept

- Inter-titles read well (x5)

- Effective jump scare (x6)

- Wheel shots added to narrative (x3)

- Slo-mo knife shot (x2)

- Setting

- Scene when girl wakes up and sees the killer

- Good Ending (x2)

- Edited well (x2)

- Acting was good

- Nice cinematography

- Wide range of shots

Question Asked:

What do you think still needs to be improved?

Answers Given:

- Some shots are too long

- Becomes boring (x2)

me>- Scream is one shot is cut to suddenly

- Jump scare at the end was too quick (x3)

- Louder sound for jump scare (x3)

- Scream shot used twice (x4)

- Order of scenes is sometimes confusing

- Starting with inter-title isn't the best start

- Unclear why killer left

- Maybe closer up shot when hair is being pulled off

- Killer doesn't look evil enough

- Inter-titles could of tied in with story better with the use of colour

- Unsure if like font on inter-titles

- Music needs some work sounds a bit like dracula

- Levels on audio may need some work in places (x2)

- Could be more dialogue

- Title at the end a little too fast

Here is a bar chart representing the individuals scores given to our trailer out of 10.

Film Poster - Original Images

Magazine Cover - Original Images

Practice Horror Trailer

This is the practise horror trailer that we filmed at the start of the A2 year. It was loosely based on Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2010).

In our practice horror trailer we tried to build the tension as much as possible with the use of slow montage and collision cutting in order to emphasize the jump scares and tension. As our trailer was called ‘Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark’ we tried to incorporate as much dark and low key lighting as possible to ensure the name tied in with the trailer, even though we did throughout a bright college day.

In the end, I think that we came out with a really good trailer for the time, setting and the rest of restrictions we had to work with.

Prop List

A list of props that we will need for our trailer are:

• A car
• Knife
• Chair
• Nightstand/bed-side cabinet with drawer
• Books/ things to hide hair in drawer
• Lamp to through against wall
• Rope to tie hands
• A house that we can use for the setting of the trailer
• Sack/Sheet to cover body in the boot of car

Swearing and Violence in my Horror Trailer

These are two trailers that contain both swearing and violence. I included this in my trailer because it gave it a sense of realism, allowing the audience to relate to it further, therefore making the horror more effective and scary. I also thought that this helped to convey the feelings of the characters better, showing a more realist sense of anger, fear etc.

My Finished Film Poster

My Finished Magazine Cover

Cut (Rough Cut)

There are still a number of things that we have to work on such as music, car wheel shot and bits of editing but this is the rough but of CUT.

Focus Group Screening

Question Asked:
What did you like about the trailer?:

Answers Given:
- Intertitles slashed were slashed which matched the theme of the trailer. (x10)
- Knife drop to floor was cut and edited well and had good sound effects. (x8)
- Make-up/ gore effects were good. (x10)
- Good use of close-ups to reflect emotion. (x2)
- Good lighting - Mostly dark.
- Dialogue and acting done well. (x3)
- Location variety.
- Good use of cross-cutting.
- Ending scene of Jordan at the end of the bed. (x2)
- Scenes were broken up into different places.
- Good variety of different shots/ cinematography. (x5)
- Plot is well explained. (x4)
- Equilibrium is broken quickly with a jump scare. 
- Good shots of the car.

Question Asked:
What do you think could be improved in the trailer?

Answers Given:
- Needs Music. (x12)
- Knife across face scene it looks like Maria is laughing.
- Too many intertitles.
- Storyline not very clear. (x2)
- Needs more variety of shots.
- Scream is very random.
- Intertitles go on a long time. (x3)
- Screams are cut short.
- Add blood to knife shot for effect. 
- Could be more serious in some scenes. (x2)
- A greater variety of angles. (x2)
- Didn't understand blonde girl popping up. 
- Wheel shot needs to be re-shot. (x2)
- Wasn't very fast paced. (x3)
- Possibly more dialogue.
- Opening shots are too quick for intro.
- Don't understand the hair.
- Two similar scream shots.
- Why did the man leave then stalk her?

Here is a bar chart representing the individuals scores given to our trailer out of 10.

6 Panel Practice Storyboards

Mood Board

Shooting Schedules