For our film we wanted to have more of a storyline, rather than just a girl whos house is haunted. We will include another, real story about someones house being haunted and include the girl looking this up. To add on to this idea, we could include the girl character knowing her house is haunted, and then looking it up on the internet. For example, our teaser trailer could be in this order:
Aproval screen
Production company titles
Establishing shot of the house
An intertitle
Shot of something happening in the house (to show it's haunted)
Some dialogue (e.g the girl on the phone to a friend/ talking to someone about strange happenings - other person saying the house could be haunted)
An intertitle
A shot showing the haunting again
The girl looking up the story (could use a real life story)
An intertitle
A shot of the girls eyes close up to show the fear
We decided to look at further music for the soundtrack for our trailer. Below is the list of websites we have obtained this music from: incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/index.html?genre=horror free non copyright horror music findsounds.com As a lot of this 'horror' music sounds very similar, we have decided to look at a range of styles.
Constancy Part 2 With this music track we simply did not think it was 'scary' enough because of the use of some sort of horn throughout the whole of the track.
Medusa With this track we thought that all the sounds were too random. As we wanted something tense and simple for our teaser trailer, we have decided not to use this. This track with the random noises would be affective for a long trailer, for example by having a shot of a woman alone in a corridor, maybe in slow motion and then when the music gets more tense someone appearing would work well, as it would raise the tension, but because our teaser is short this means it would not work as well.
The House Of Leaves This music (above) does seem tense because of the rising high pitch tone, but we saw how if we were going to include a tone like this it would have to be a lot faster and shorter. Also it would have to end in a better way, as this just suddenly gets quiet and we do not believe it would be affective for our trailer.
Kevin MacLeod - The Hive This piece of music includes a lot of violin, which is something we saw as being quite cheesy, as it's something which would be used on a old styled horror film. We want our film trailer to be modern as well as tense, so we will not be using this. Also, this piece of music isn't very tense as there is no main beat giving a tense feeling throughout.
When looking for non copyright music, we have factors to consider which are gained from other film teasers/ trailers. For example, we need something which adds tension to our teaser, be it fast paced or slow it does not matter as long at it creates something tense.
Flotate - freeplaymusic.com We have decided not to use this music, as we didn't feel it could create any idea of tension. We may use a slow paced song, but one with a beat of some sort included, because then this will create tension, whereas the track Flotate does not at all.
Eerie Angel - freeplaymusic.com This music is slightly more tense than the track 'Flotate' (also from freeplaymusic.com), as it has a flute sound over the top. Although the flute sound does create a more tense piece of music, it isn't exactly what we are looking for, we do not think it's tense enough.
In conclusion we have decided to look at a further range of music, so that we can find something tense which isn't copyrighted. We want a piece of music which will give a tense feeling to the whole trailer, therefore exciting the audience so that they will want to view our film.
From researching the film institution Dream Works Pictures, we have decided not to use this institution for our film. This is becaue we could only find very few films which are of our chosen genre (horror), meaning this institution would not suit our film as it would not be clear who our film is intended for or the genre.
Examples of a few Dreamworks Pictures films are:
>Cowboys & Aliens
>The Lovely Bones
>Dinner For Schmucks
>Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
Dimension Films
From researching Dimension Films we have decided not to use this film institution as it has not produced many horror or supernatural films.
Examples of a few Dimension Films' movies are:
>Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3
>Scary Movie
>Spy Kids & Spy Kids 2
>Bad Santa
>Starsky and Hutch
>Phantoms
>Halloween: The Curse Of Michael Myres
These examples clearly show that Dimension Films have produced some horror films, but not many and not specifically supernatural horror ones which will be our type of film.
Paramount Pictures - Our Chosen Institution
From researching different production companies, Paramount is the institution which we have decided to use.
Examples of films which are produced by Paramount Pictures:
>Friday the 13th franchise (1980 - 1989) >Paranormal Activity trilogy >Shutter Island >Cloverfield >War of the Worlds >Sleepy Hollow Above displays the fact that Paramount Pictures has produced many horror films. Paranormal Activity is the main inspiration for my group and I to produce a supernatural film whilst others show conventions I would like to experiment for our film teaser. For example all of the victim characters have the typical plain clothing look as their costume, meaning the focus will be on the horror character, rather than being distracted by any outgoing clothing. Cloverfield is a film produced in a point of view camera angle throughout the whole film, with one of the characters filming all events throughout (which is similar to how Paranormal Activity is structured). We won't be producing our teaser trailer in this way, but it's something we will consider using in some of our footage as the look increases the fear in the shots as it gives an inclusive feeling for the audience, as if they are there.
>The above certificate symbols (U, PG, 12 and 12A) would be irrelevant for the type of film we are aiming to produce. This is because horror films always have a higher aged certificate as their target audiences are of a higher age because of the fear these films produce for people.
>The certificates 15 and 18 are more relevant for the supernatural horror film we are aiming to produce because it will be 'scary', meaning it is less suitable for younger audiences.
>In conclusion we have decided to use a '15' certificate, as then there will be a wider audience, therefore if our film were to be realistically produced, many more people could see it meaning making more of a profit.
Overall from looking at different films of the genre we have chosen (supernatural horror) I have come to the conclusion as to which type of audience would be the target for our film.
Age
It's clear that the age range we will be targeting is 15-24, as out of all of the films I researched this was always the highest
Gender
The target audience when keeping in mind gender does not have one in particular. As for each film, the percentages for gender were close to one another. This means that anyone will watch this type of film.
From this research, we will begin looking at which certificate to use so therefore who our target audience is.
