The Impact Of Reserach

How Has Research Impacted On Our Idea?

Genre

For our trailers, the genre was chosen as Horror, but then we took the idea of creating a sub-genre for the trailer to get a more understanding of our plot idea. This impacted our comprehension to create a Psychological Horror, the psychological influence comes from our villain’s beliefs and therefore becomes emotionally unstable about his obsession from hating the police due to his past. This connection makes our plot a mystery to the audience, as they will never truly understand his insanity due to it’s a trailer.

Narrative

Our Narrative is based on Tsvensan Todorov ‘s “Classical Hollywood Narrative” Theory. This creates the basis and a chronological story which the audience can follow. Counter-parting the typical narrative of equilibrium, disequilibrium, recognition and new equilibrium, we have taken this theory and made a different stereotype, creating an equilibrium, recognition and disequilibrium. This impacted our idea so we could create a more versatile plot with some more intricate ideas.     

Representation

The representation we analysed was on Carol Clovers “Final Girl” Theory, This representation helped us configure our main character to fit with the plot. Using a final girl theory, we implemented androgynous traits to our female protagonist, this shows aspects that she isn’t a typical girl in a horror film who will die because she is unaware of her surroundings but rather pays attention to the area which peaks her reactions. Unlike the typical female an androgynous female has a uni-sex name and with her masculinity traits she fights back the villain in various ways to find her escape.   

Audiences and Institutions

Focusing on our target audience, our primary audience is based on the younger generation basing our film at a 15. This provides fantasy gore, instead of normal gore to lower the age rate making it appealing to the audience as they can relate, creating them aware of how vulnerable the younger generation can be to the public at certain times. Our secondary audience is for ages over 25+, as this is a horror film at such a low age rate this will mainly focus on the primary audience range from 15-21.

Media Languages

Media languages help implemented our knowledge of creating and visualising an idea and plot for our film impacting the plot helping us to create and produce the final outcome of the idea for the horror trailer. Finding out which Camera Shots, Using Cinematography helped the group include varied shots such as Tracking Shot, Point Of View, Close Up, Over The Shoulder, Long Shot etc. This will help create an intricate view for the trailer creating a momentum build up with the included editing within the transactions and music surrounding the trailer. Editing will play a huge part in the focus of creating transaction fades with sound bridges to understand dialogue over the dramatic music which will add drama and effect to the build up to the ending scene that will be a featured key insight to the synopsis, but not giving to much away. This will include all the different takes that the trailer will feature but also to hint things to the plot within split seconds if the audience can pick up on them. Sound will be minimum such as ambient, diegetic, sound bridge, sound mixing and non-diegetic. This is to create the tension and upbringing of the trailer throughout the duration it is played for creating key movement scenes through the film to create the audience engaged in watching the film/trailer, tension such as doors creaking and sudden noises will keep the audience off their toes to create the imitation of the being that stalks the main protagonist.