Music for trailer

Music in a trailer is vital, especially for one in the genre mine is in being horror, as it heightens the tension. I looked through many sites where there was copyright free music which i could use. 

I needed to choose music which constantly emphasised the tension for the audience and to do this I used online websites to browse, were copyright free music was available. After listening to many pieces of music, I came across a song called 'Unseen Horrors from the website incompetech.com. This is quite a quiet piece of music although it really enhances the horror theme of my trailer. As I want to have a voiceover, I made sure that the music didn't have words in. I have used the platform of imovie to edit the music to fit the trailer as  I have some knowledge on how to use the programme.

Audience feedback for poster mockups

Poster Mock ups

Here are a few poster mock-up's I have created to see what features I want to use on my final poster, I will also get some feedback to see what my target audience thinks about them.

Photoshoot for poster and magazine

Below are some images I have taken which I can use for my film poster and magazine, I had to constantly keep in mind the sort of shot angles which would be most effective for a horror magazine.

Changes to my trailer plot

Due to unforeseen circumstances I am going to have to change my plot for my trailer, so the concept will now be: -two girls go to a haunted house to play a Ouija Board
                     - One of the girls dissapears, the other feels like she is being chased by someone
                     -The girl starts getting very scared that someone is following her
                     -Bad things start to happen to the girl and in the end she becomes possessed

Questionnaire Magazine Analysis

I decided to do another questionnaire so that I could find out what my target audience would expect to see on a magazine front cover.

 

Here is a pie chart of my results from finding out how often my target audience read film magazines. Half of the answers were about 'once a year' which illustrates that film magazines don't have as much influence as a film poster does. Similarly over a quarter of people 'never' read film magazines, this is something which I want to try so I will have to make sure my film magazine is able to capture the audiences attention so that people feel inclined to read my magazine.

 

 

Here I wanted to know what kind of colours people would expect on a horror film magazine. I received practically the same answers as when I asked the question in my film poster questionnaire. This highlights to me that the colours really do expect to see are black and red.

 

 

I was struggling for ideas on what to put on the front cover of my magazine, the question I asked about 'what to expect on a front cover of a film magazine' has given me a lot of ideas about what to include. As you can see the suggestions will enable myself to get a clear idea on what to include so that more people will feel inclined to purchase a film magazine. A few of my favourites are; photos of the main character and secondary pictures.

 

 

 

Here I wanted to know what colours for the font would be expected on my film magazine front cover. As you can see the majority want dark colours as it fits into the category of a horror film.

 

 

I wanted to ask this question to gauge how much influence people feel about a film after reading an article about it. It is evident that it depends what people read as to whether they are influenced to watch it. Although I also think this relies heavily on the front cover of the film magazine as if it doesn't grab the attention of the reader people are going to be less intrigued on whether they should read it.

 

Questionnaire for film magazine

I have decided to send out a questionnaire to my target audience to analyse their thoughts on a film magazine front cover

Analysis of 3 film magazines