Action trailer music

To make this I used GarageBand and applied layers upon each other to create the music for an Action theme trailer

Research and planning: Storyboard

Trailer: Film locations

To try and find some filming locations we looked at some websites that provided filming locations at a price. I emailed one company about a location, but unfortunately the location cost £1000 for a full days filming. This is too much to pay, so the group and me will go and look for our own locations that are suitable for our film.

Trailer: Film Idea

After speaking with the members of my group we have decided to create an almost psychological thriller. The film will start with a news headline saying that a Multi-millionaire has gone missing, this will be a close up shot of the tv and the shot will have an effect that puts the blurry lines that you get across a tv when there is a bad signal. The scene will then end and it will switch to a microphone hung up in the corner of a dark derelict room, the camera will slowly pan out as a voice from the speaker acts as a narrative. As the camera pans out it goes of the persons shoulder who is being kept hostage, he is startled and wakes.
The film title will be "Captive" as this fits the idea that the man is being kept against hiss will, and his this word also carries a negative connotation with it.

Research and planning: Audience theories

The hypodermic model:

The hypodermic mode suggests that messages from the media are "injected" straight into our brains. Some theorists suggests that the media can be addictive; like drugs.

Cultivation theory:

The more people watch media the more likely people are to have their world view influenced by the media. The problem is that it will make people develop false views of the world.

Desensitisation:

This theory suggests that the more violence people are exposed to the less people are affected by it: it is said that more violence seen on screen makes us desensitised to real life violence.

Modelling theory:

Also known as the copycat theory and it suggests that whatever people see in the media causes people to copy the actions and behaviour seen. No research supports this interpretation, and is normally maintained by the press.                                        

Uses and gratifications theory:

The theory says that people interpret media differently depending on their personality situation and background. it says media does not change beliefs already developed over a persons life.

Research and planning: My pitch

This is the pitch I produced to the class to show my ideas for the film I wanted to create. After talking with my team we aren't going to follow through with this idea and are going to produce a horror movie instead.

Planning and Research: Genre

The Genre of a film is defined by it's narrative elements and code and conventions. Some well-known genres are action, comedy, romance and horror, and all of these genres have different techniques used to help the audience grasp the genre and also enforce what is expected of the genre.

Action 
An action film usually consists of moderate violence, usually 2 groups of individuals portrayed as good or bad. The film is usually fast paced to create suspense and may contain special effects to create an over-exaggerated situation usually making the "good guy" within the film seem almost superhuman.

Comedy
A film that is made to amuse and make the audience laugh. There are also different categories of comedy, due to the diversity in peoples humour. There is a realistic humour such as films like superbad which follows a sort of mundane life of regular people, these films tend to be quite slow as to creat the effect of a real life situation. then there may be films such as anchorman which creates surreal situations and over-exaggerated comedy acting to create the comedy effect.

Horror
Usually unsettling films that play with the audiences emotions such as fear, disgust and shock. Tend to use clever angles or cinematography to create suspense and to catch the audience unaware, it may also use gore and violence to try and scare the audience.

Romance
A film that usually involves 2 people falling in love and overcoming obstacles to be with each other, or maybe not being able to get past the obstacles at all. The film usually has a normal pace to it as the idea is for the audience to empathize with the people involved in the romance, therefore the normal pace mirrors the regular pace of normal life.

Research and Planning: Trailers

After deciding on a horror/thriller film idea that we are going to produce for our teaser trailer, I decided to look at other similar teaser trailer films that use the same effects I feel are needed in my teaser trailer and also too get ideas and conventions from the trailer that I could use.
One trailer I found that I felt created the suspense and also used some of the conventions I wanted was the 'panic room' teaser trailer:

The quite beginning and steady increase in suspense is what I was looking to do in the trailer, also the music is not too heavy but it is still effective in creating an atmosphere of wonder around the trailer