As my narrative includes a 'Final Girl', I have looked into some existing unisex names that I could possibly name the character.
Final Girl Names
As my narrative includes a 'Final Girl', I have looked into some existing unisex names that I could possibly name the character.
Research- Look of Characters
As
we are coming very close to actually carrying out the project of creating a
horror trailer, it is important for us to start looking into key elements such
as the looks of characters. I have looked online on sites such as YouTube to
get a better idea of how the villain for my trailer should look. Although I came
across a number of different looks, this one interested me. This video gave me
ideas which I felt linked well to the villain in our narrative. A common
convention witnessed in horror is that ghosts are shown with pale skin. I will
be thinking about what aspects of this video would be good to use while
creating my own horror trailer.
Chucky Haloween Day Prank
Here, we can see how a marketing strategy has been used to attract audience and promote the horror movie. The reason i felt this was effective was because the method used was different to other methods and it really stood out. Apart from that, the way the prank was carried out fit well with the horror genre as it scared the audiences, and this is the reaction they want from the film.
Looking at real life examples
The police will try to investigate situations occurring to
find out who is actually doing it. They will be intimidating and determined to
find out the answer. Whilst trying to get a clearer idea of what to actually do
in the horror trailer, I looked for an example horror trailer which may help
guide me. The horror trailer I looked at was the Sorority Row (2009) trailer. I
found that many of the concepts in this trailer matched what I aim to see in
the end product. As well as this the characters were also similar; a group of
young girls, a victim (even though she was not bullied), etc. the idea of ‘coming
back for revenge’ was also included.
What creates a successful horror trailer?
I have carried our research my looking online for what makes
a good trailer. Here I have created a mind-map of some suggestions I found.
Target Audience Research- Online Survey
The second piece of target audience research I decided to
carry out was an online survey. With the questionnaire, I had been able to gain
feedback from mainly students within my college, however to target the wider
population I thought that the internet would be a useful tool. I created an
online survey on a site known as ‘Survey Monkey’;
After I had created the survey, I used social media to
publicise it so that people respond to it. Twitter was the site that I used as I
am aware of how common it is. In another tweet that I posted regarding the survey,
I used the hash tag system to increase the chances of people seeing the tweet.
After the survey had been filled out, the data was
collected;
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