Analysing Film Trailers

Analysing Film Trailers on Prezi

Images Vs Words

Looking at film titles and images i wanted to consider which of the two were most informative to the audience so i went to research.

Let me in

The title of let me in alone shows the genre of the film, it being a horror and also a vampire film. By the old gothic style typography which is sharp on the edges we can connote this. Furthermore the Me is coloured red which again connotes blood and death. However the picture anchors this meaning down whith the cold winter snow as vampires are cold creatures or as Bram stoker says the 'Un-dead'!

http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsWJt5tNLKg

Salt

Just by lookin at the Film title salt you cant tell what the film is going to be about or what genre it will be. This then brings me to say that not every film title can connote or tell what the film will be about and thats why images can be seen as important as they anchor the meaning down.
Although now looking at the image of Angelina jolie we can say that it maybe connotes an action movie of the sort.

Case 39

The movie title Case 39 connotes some realisim in the film. teh fact thats its a case and they remebered the number aids in creating the realism. The gostly whiye font connotes a sense of the past coming back to haunt the future.

By having the women cowering the child i think it again helps the title as most cases have children in it and something goes wrong.

In conluding this research i learnt that images and words work hand in hand and theyre both informative. The image or word anchors the meaning, Ive also learnt from this task that you dont give too much away an dit should be a hook to the audience and make peopel think about it.

pete frazer workshop

Horror workshop on Prezi

A known media examiner Pete Frazer came in to help us reflect on the work we had done in a levels and how we could improve.

He also helped us to think of different ways of publishing and presenting out blig coursework. which is how i came how to use prezi-the online presentation which is more effective in delivering slideshows etc.

http://prezi.com/ruozmagox2cf/horror-workshop/

Introduction

Welcome to my horror blog.

i started my year 13 horror blog by setting up a new blog. The blog will contain my on going process of my development and also reflecting on how i can improve this years coursework in comparison to my last blog.

In this Years work we were given the task of making a Horror trailer, film poster and front magazine cover promoting our horror trailer. We were also put into groups to create this work. To be able to successfully complete these task consistent research and planning will need to take place, for example how will we go about making a horror trailer? And also what does it need to be succesful? these are the questions just some of the questions i will be asking myself and taking into consideration!