Final Movie Poster

Here is our final movie poster for 'The Chain'. I really think that the layout and image is effective as it highlights a lot of iconography such as blood and sets a vision of the 'unknown' or the 'other'. As the villain is holding the chain, the chain is obviously symbolic as it is the title of our movie. I think that the shot that has been taken is very interesting as the villain looks suspicious and extremely horrifying. Obviously, this is the intention we wanted as we want to meet the horror genre that will coincide with the typical elements. We have received some feedback from teachers and their comments were that the 'full stop after evil never dies' needs to be removed as it does not look effective and no other horror poster has that convention'. We decided to remove the full stop and change the font at the bottom of the poster as it is not clear and does not look very effective. We need to change the date because it appears as February 2014 which is not intentional. In fact we want it to be the 14th of February as in Valentines Day, so we have to change that to make it clear and precise.

Logo Lionsgate

As you can see from above, here is the logo in which will be the feature at the beginning of our horror trailer. We have decided to use the company Lionsgate as our production company as they are well known for producing horror trailers such as the recent horror film, Jessabelle. I feel that this is a good link to our horror trailer as we are linking real media texts together by using the same production company. Audiences will hopefully see the effect in which we aimed to create. I have imported this logo into Premiere so that it will feature on our edit. As you can see from the first two seconds, the screening is dark and quite gothic. As our trailer genre is horror, this interlinks well so that audiences can make apparent what genre our trailer is. I believe that this logo looks effective as the music is quite sinister at the beginning which conveys an adventure about to occur. The adventure in this case, would be the victim running away from the villain as she now becomes stalked and watched.

Movie Poster FlatPlan

As you can see from above, here is our movie poster flat plan which we hope that our final movie poster will look similar too. As you can see, we have the tagline 'evil never dies' which links to movie trailer as this is a movie title. The villain is holding the necklace which is symbolic as our trailer is about a chain in which a girl takes from near a graveyard unaware that the chain is someones that she got given by her lover. The whole reason for The Chain to come out on Valentines Day is that it is a symbolism of love as a woman got given it by her lover and then she died and he put it on her grave stone. She then comes back to haunt the person that removed it from her grave stone. A picture of the Villain with blood on it is intended to be used as this is iconography that we will be using to show that this person is coming back from the dead and the fact that they are a villain. As the villain usually has blood on their face, it gives a sense that they have killed someone or that they are evil or classed as the 'other'.

Print Screens Whilst In The Process Of Editing

I've print screened my process of editing the horror trailer. As you can see from above, I have inserted a green colour matte over a scene which is made to appear as if it's been shot at night. This will give a perception of a night vision as the green is quite vivid and creepy. We want to meet the horror genre as a typical convention from a horror film would be that the villain comes to haunt the victim when no one is around because it is dark and night time. This could link to 1996 horror film Scream, as the villain comes to haunt the victim at night, knowing that no one is going to be around to save her. In our trailer, the villain comes to haunt the final girl at night time and attempts to strangle her. Knowing that no one would be around to say the victim, she has to fend for herself by trying to escape from the villain and fight back. There is always this typical battle between the victim and the villain. The victim is always suspected to win in order to achieve her title as the 'final girl'. This might be the case in our trailer, but we are using Roland Barthes' enigma code.

Unfinished Horror Trailer

Here is our unfinished horror trailer I exported today. As you can see, it is looking quite bland and lacking a lot of detail. Unfortunately there is not a lot of blood and iconography, which I feel we might need to add some extra shots we took to make our trailer 'complete'. However, I like the setting as the colour shade on most of the scenes are quite dark which adds an effect to a typical horror trailer in which we intended to convey. I think that this may be able to work as our end product if we tweaked it a little, adding more dramatic music and faster shots which will meet the typical horror requirements. We also need a bit more blood and iconography as I feel that we're slacking on that aspect at the moment. As this is not fully our horror trailer and only 14 seconds long, it is technically a teaser trailer which aims to give you a sense of what the outcome of the trailer intends to bring to audiences. We want our audience to be drawn into watching our trailer from the very opening scene and hope that it looks very realistic.

Music Used In Our Trailer

 
Here is the music we are going to use in our horror trailer. As it is labelled 'Scary Chase Music', this was intentional as we want to meet the horror genre. This music is extremely sinister and has a sense to make an audience member feel on edge as it is quite daunting and menacing. We decided to import it into Premiere for our trailer, as we want to have this drive which will keep audience members watching our trailer. This also links in to our chase scene as the music begins to speed up as the victim is being chased by the villain. This is a typical horror aspect as there is always conventionally a 'chase' scene which can really drive the narrative. It is used to keep audience members watching as they want to know what is going to happen to villain, asking questions about whether they are going to get killed or not. This also highlights Roland Barthes' enigma code because it makes audiences ask the question, who done it? As the villain in our trailer's identity is hidden at first, this will interlink with his theory as no one will know who the villain really is.

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