Comparing Work
- 1. What Yasmin wants: - thriller with elements of horror - girl involved in cult, uncover bigger secret - target audience between 15-25 - psychological thriller with elements of horror - incorporate ideas to create a storyline using conventions of supernatural/religious/satanic/cult subgenres of horror - conflict is internal (psychological thriller) - themes: death, reality, perception, identity, existence, secrets, suspense/tension, life and death situations - trailer will highlight the hybrid genre by showing conventions of horror and psychological thriller; create a scare factor What Yasmin found: - target audience are mainly female (60%) and 90% are under 20 - horror is the favourite genre and psychological/thriller is third - what attracts to this genre?: gory, on edge, suspense, the unknown, intense, twist in story, music and sound effects, spooky atmosphere, jump scares, tension, performances in the trailer are solid. - key selling points: actors/directors, narrative/plotline, enigma codes & genre - to establish genre: fast-paced (thriller), fades to black & intertitles (horror) - HATES - doesn’t showcase blood which highlights mainly the thriller genre over horror - Shutter Island - fast paced and non linear editing - Woman in Black - essence of community isolates protagonist, old house conventions, focus on children attaches an older audience What Rhi wants: - horror film trailer: satanic, supernatural or slasher (initial ideas) - psychological thriller/horror - girl involved in a cult - target audience 15-25, both genders - hybrid genre attracts more people What Rhi found: - audiences are mainly between the ages of 15-21 and the majority were female - horror and thriller were some of the favourite genres and people were attracted by the tension, suspense and enigma in the trailers - settings in 3 films in codal analysis are all dark and dingy; graveyards connote death; metallic and gunshot sound effects = violence, death and sinning; all trailers have a supernatural element and end in disruption; on screen text shows names and release date Stuff to use in the trailer: - All three use fade to black; horror convention of white costume to connote innocence; early disequilibrium, community acts as an auxiliary antagonist in 2/3 - white costume, conventionally used in horror to connote innocene/vulernability - eerie setting through dark themes, eg woods = isolation - imagery that sets the tone/elements - audience invest in characters through psychological effect of the film - close ups of facial expression gives away narrative without need for dialogue