Saw VI Trailer.

This is the Saw VI trailer, I have chosen to research this trailer because it is of the genre that I have chosen and has some useful techniques, such as the camera moving backwards throughout to show the scene, which is also common to the Halloween trailer. Also it constantly shows people in pain for a very shot period of time, showing their facial expressions and items of torture, this creates a great deal of suspense. There is also a constant soundtrack to increase the tension and it also shows the genre of the film. The fonts used are constant throughout which shows consistency and most of the fonts include the number 6, which links to the title of the films, this is a clever technique and one which I would try and replicate if possible.

Research and Genres.

Throughout the project I will intend to create a Digipack, which will include my movie trailer, poster and the DVD cover. At the moment there is only a couple of genres that I intend to use, these being either a Thriller or Horror. I will look at different films in these two genres and then decide which one I find the best to use and pursue.

Thriller films I could look at include: The Godfather, Shifty and The Dark Knight.
Horror films I could look at include: The Saw collection, Scream, Halloween, ect..
With these films I will also need to find a suitable soundtrack for parts of the trailer to create suspense and enhance the trailer, I will use Garage bands to find different artists within which would suit the genre of the film that I choose to take forward.

As I go through the project I will find different trailers that suit what I want to do in my trailer, and I will research them as well as these listed here. I also intend to use YouTube to find different amateur movie trailers for other students that have done movie trailers for their A level, I think this would be very useful to see different techniques used that are accessible.

Wordle

This is my wordle, which includes the two genres of film that I will be using, horror or thriller, it also shows some films of these genres and some scenes used in horror or thriller films, this is useful for when I need ideas as some are stored here.

Schedule

This is a rough schedule, showing when I expect to have different products or areas completed by, if I can keep to this schedule then I will time to improve my work so I can achieve as high a grade as possible.

• Complete research (existing products/audience) by 24th July.
• Complete planning (scripts, shot lists, storyboards, animatics, mock-ups and flat plans ect..) by 10th September.
• Complete rough-cut by 20th September.
• Complete final-cut by 1st October.
• Complete album/poster completed by 15th October.
• Final album/poster completed by 31st October.
• Audience feedback by 10th November.
• Revisions by 20th November.
• Evaluations by 30th November.
• 1st hand-in 1st December.

Introduction

Hello, my name is Christian Percival and this is my Media Studies A level blog and I go to Biddulph High School. I am going to do a movie trailer as I have a couple of decent ideas for a movie trailer and it seems to be the most interesting of the two subjects, however I also have a good idea for a music video as well so if the movie trailer doesn't go to plan then I can always fall back on that. I have also picked to do movie trailers because there are many different trailers that I like such as the James Bond Casino Royal trailer.