Draft Film Poster Mock Up 2

Draft Film Poster Mock Up

Draft Film Poster 3

Draft Film Poster 2

Draft Film Poster 1

Second Short Meeting Via BlackBerry

Horror Film Posters

Psychological horror ; The Icons

Psycho (1960) 15

Psycho is a American psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Plot
A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother.

The Exorcist (1973) 18

The Exorcist is a American horror film directed by William Friedkin, adapted from the 1971 novel of the same name by William Peter.

Plot
When a child is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.

The Shining (1980) 18

The Shining is a psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Plot
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

Psychological horror ; Foreign

Funny Games (1997) 18

Funny Games is a Austrian psychological thriller/horror film directed and written by Michael Haneke.

Plot
Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

Ring (1998) 15

Ring is a Japanese horror film by Hideo Nakata, adapted from the novel Ring by Kōji Suzuki.

Plot
A mysterious video kills whomever views it, unless that viewer can solve its mystery.

Audition (1999) 18

Audition is a Japanese horror film directed by Takashi Miike.

Plot

A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.

Psychological Horror ; US & UK

Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that relies on character fears, guilt, beliefs.

Jacob's Ladder

Psychological horror tends to be subtle compared to traditional horror and typically contains less physical harm, as it works mainly on the factors of mentally affecting the audience rather than the display of graphic imagery seen in the slasher and splatter sub-genres. It creates discomfort in the viewer by exposing common or universal psychological vulnerabilities and fears, most notably the shadowy parts of the human psyche which most people repress or deny, here are some examples.


Rosemary's Baby (1968) 15

Rosemary's Baby is a 1967 best-selling horror novel by Ira Levin, in 1968, the novel was turned into an acclaimed film adaptation.

Plot
A young couple move into a new apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins controlling her life.

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 18

The Silence of the Lambs is a American horror/thriller film that blends elements of the crime and horror genres, it was directed by Jonathan Demme.

Plot

A young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.


Mulholland Drive (2001) 15

Mulholland Drive is a American neo-noir psychological thriller written and directed by David Lynch.

Plot
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

Audience Research Response

Through conducting our audience research, by using a Blackberry, We found out that one of the main convention of horror that excites her the most is weapons. However, we also noticed that she didn't really spend much monthly at the cinema .

Once again through conducting our audience research, by using a Blackberry, We found out that, she was also excited by one of the main conventions weapons, being in most horror films. However, we also noticed that she doesn't really watch horror films much, with her answer being roughly a year.

This time we conducted our audience research by texting and by using Twitter. This lead to us noticing that both provided quick feedback, which was very beneficial for our research as we didn't want it to be time consuming. Unlike the previous two participant one of the main convention of horror that excited her was screams. Using Twitter and texting just highlights there's a variety of ways to conduct audience research, which can provide quick and easy feedback.

Ms Roberston Make Up

Kino Flo Diva Lite 500

Dominic explains the Kino Flo Diva Lite 500 and its features and use as this is another piece of equipment that we will use in the production of our teaser trailer.

Vinten Pro 5

This is Dominic, our graphic designer, explaining the Vinten Pro 5 Tripod which is a piece of equipment that we are going to use during the production process of our teaser trailer. He  does a step by step showing of how to set up the tripod and how to assemble the camera on the tripod.

Using The Equipment

CREATING THE POSTER

Marketing for Media Trailer

Marketing for Media Trailer

Marketing a movie is a key process of making the film without this no one would know what its about or when its coming out, a teaser trailer is also a way of marketing the film, in the end the more marketing you do comes down to what your budget is if it is a lot you can go the whole way for example films like The Dark Knight who went on a 360 degree approach where they market  through everything such as Virally, Food, Posters, Billboards, Games, Phones, and Formula 1 car, but again this was only possible due to the large budget  they had, for example a film like Adulthood who did not  have such a large budget had only a few posters and adverts could not have done what Dark Knight accomplished through marketing on food, games etc.

These are a list of ways we plan to market our movie if we had the appropriate budget

-Posters – we would have at least 2 posters that we can put out there for the public with one showing the antagonist and an other with the protagonist but at the same time not giving too much away maybe even a 3^rd poster with jus a phone and a coverline

-Billboards- this would be hard to come by because you don’t really see billboards for horror movies due to certain types of regulation, but if possible we would have one keeping it very basic and as good as possible due to regulators

-Adverts- with adverts we would try to get it after a quite popular program like celebrity get me out of here, this is because of the time it comes on its not to late but just right for a horror trailer to come on and the reason behind a  program such as celebrity get me out  of here is because its an highly watch program where people will always being watching

-Star actor- if we could use a star actor this would helps us a lot, star actors bring more audience alongside them, because they want to see what part he has to play in this film

-Internet - This is one of the most popular ways as almost everybody is on the internet and you can promote almost everywhere, we would definitely use Facebook Groups getting people to share and like