We have decided to change the name of our film from Pendulum to End: 2110. Originally, our trailer and film was going to feature a key theme of time and clocks. However, throughout the production stage, this theme has been lost. We are still planning to include the sounds of clock ticking in the trailer which would suggest that time is counting down...

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In preparation for making our magazine front cover and poster, we looked at exemplars that were provided by the exam board. Magazine What I Like - I like the main image as it is simple but effective.  I like how you can easily tell that the film that is featured is a horror with the use of blood The whole cover is laid...

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Purpose The main purpose of films posters in general is to advertise a film - create awareness and persuade audiences to see the film. Film posters also help to inform audiences by providing information such as the talent involved, a release date and sometimes an age classification. Film posters can also help to convey the genre of the film. Without film posters, there...

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Our question is answered at 13:57 in the video.  We sent a tweet to movie reporter and Youtuber Grace Randolph (Beyond the Trailer, Movie Math) about our idea and trailer. We asked 'For our final year in school, we are making a film trailer for Media Studies coursework. The plot is a thriller and has a similar 'mystery killer' plot to Scream and...

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What Went Well: We remembered to remove any obstructions from the driveway. We only had one car on the driveway and took away any thing that could disrupt the continuity of the scene. An example of this is a family dog which had to be put in an area away from the cameras frame so it could not be seen in shot.  We...

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We visited Corby Film Week and took part in one of the workshops. This was led by Robert Foster who has worked on Hollyoaks, The Bill and Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway. We learnt about the importance of lighting (creating a white balance before beginning to film), the importance of camera angles/height (interviews work best at eye level, high angle can show...

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For all of the fonts, we decided to highlight 'end' in red. We did this because end could be associated with the end of our characters lives. We chose the colour red as it is a popular colour to be used in horror films and it also connotes danger.  Our favourite font is option 1 - the mix of 'Chris-Man' and 'I Still...

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The pitch for our trailer is 'Sudden death within a friendship group leads to many suspects where both the audience and characters must discover who the murderer is'.  For our video, we used clips of films and TV shows that are inspiration for our trailer. We also used a song that was used in a recent horror films trailer 'The Gallows' - we...

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Day One - Shots 3&4 Weather - If it is raining on the day of filming, the camera may get damaged. To solve this, we will make sure we have an umbrella just in case. We may also have continuity issues if the rain begins half way through our shooting time. Another issue is if the temperature is low then we will need...

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We are Clockwork films - an English, independent film company which focuses on low budget horror films. Our goal is to create film franchises that our audiences will enjoy.  ...

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Censorship is the name for the process or idea of keeping things like obscene word or graphic images from an audience. Regulation is the action or process of regulation or being regulated. In post-war years it was fears of social unrest that was the reason for many films being censored or banned. As the nation relaxed in the 1960s nudity became the prime...

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Here are the legal responsibilities we must consider when filming our trailer: We must make sure that none of the general public are in the background of our film without our consent. This is because they are protected by privacy. We must also make sure that we do not refer to a member of the general public in a way that would lower...

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U means Universal. This means that anyone of any age is allowed to watch a film that has this certificate. Us only included infrequent uses of mildly bad language and there is no large focus on sexual behaviour. Violence in films that are rated U is also generally quite mild. Us also have no references to drugs. However, a U rated film isn't...

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We made a collage of posters of horror and thriller films. We did this because we haven't quite decided which genre our film will fit into to (it is mainly a thriller but has elements of horror). ...

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The above video is the trailer for the upcoming 2015 release 'Regression'. The film's title appears at the end of the trailer which means that intrigue will build up throughout the trailer as the audience will be wondering what the films name is if they are interested in seeing it. The film stars Ethan Hawke (Sinister, Boyhood) and Emma Watson (Harry Potter, My...

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To get knowledge about how horror films are marketed, I made a case study on how The Purge was marketed. I chose this film as it won awards for its marketing campaign and how effective it was. The Purge also similarities to our idea as it includes masked killers (iconography). To get knowledge about how horror films are marketed, I made a case...

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Here are 20 key moments, scenes and features that we are planning to include in our trailer.  ...

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We decided to do another 'reaction' video but this time with two males. We did this because our target audience are all teenagers of both genders - we thought we would show some similar trailers to two males to see if they liked them. If they didn't, we could then adapt our idea to be more female targeted. The audience members gave their...

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This is our second questionnaire that we carried out. This was much more in depth and was mainly about our new idea. We found that all 15 people who were asked had at least watched one of the TV shows that have similarities to our idea - this suggests that our idea would be of interest to our audience. The audience said that...

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We made a spider diagram of the types of things that scare people so we could get an idea of what would be the 'scare factor' in our film. Here is our idea put into Todorov's Narrative Theory: Stage 1: Usual happy life, sets up relationships between characters (mainly between boyfriend and girlfriend) Stage 2: The girlfriend is suddenly killed ----A Year Later----...

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Todorov's Narrative theory: Stage 1 - The state of equilibrium is defined Stage 2 - Disruption to equilibrium by action or crisis Stage 3 - Characters recognise problems and set goals to fix them Stage 4 - Characters try to fix problems but there are obstacles Stage 5 - Equilibrium is re-instated, problem solved, conclusion For film trailers, stage 5 would not be...

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