Trailer Pitch

The Caller

Audience Feedback

What did you like about our idea?

- I liked the idea of modern social networking, relating to the audience

- Liked the idea of not knowing who the 'Caller' is

- It has good use of technology

- Liked the idea of people receiving calls, the feeling of getting stalked is scary to most audiences.

- Exciting idea

What could we change?

- The amount of shots that is going to be used in the trailer

- The trailer may be too fast pace in the time you are using, could be disorientating for the audience

Did you llike the poster and magazine idea?

- Poster idea was very 'now' works with the idea

- Liked to ideas a lot its different but conventional

- Very simple poster but very detailed and the magazine idea also simple but effective

Any advice?

- Don't give too much of the story away in the trailer

- Dialogue of the character the 'Caller'

Any other feedback?

- Impressive mix of conventions and plot ideas

-Thrilling, engages the audience, makes the auience want to see more

- Teaser trailer will be difficult but very efffective when done right

- Don't give all the good parts away leave them wanting more

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We took imto consideration what comments we got back from the audience and have decided to cut down the amount of shots we had, and not to revel all the story in our trailer we were glad we got positive feedback and they found it interesting and they liked the good use of mordern technology.

We also got positive comments on the poster and magazine ideas

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Generic Conventions and Iconography

Generic conventions are, elements which are expected to be in a specific type of genre for example a Romance would be expected to have a love story and heartbreak in it, whereas an action/adventure film would be expected to have a fight scene of some sort and there is always a hero, a villain and a love interest.

For my teaser trailer I am creating a psychological thriller, the generic conventions of a thriller would be to have a soundtrack that created suspense and tension within the film, there are different sub genres such as crime thriller, mystery thriller, psychological thriller and mystery thriller are just some of the sub genres, as I am doing the sub genre, psychological thriller the codes and conventions of this would be that the main characters, the protagonist and antagonist are involved in some sort of conflict, normally mentally and emotionally more than physically. The genre thriller is similar to horror they both use dramatic music to engage the audience, the non-diegetic soundtrack is normally one of the most important elements to thriller or horror films.
The stereotypical thriller genre uses shadows and dark rooms, and the plot usually takes place of a night. Not all thriller films stick to the conventions, Photobooth is one film that doesn't stick to codes and conventions as it is not filmed of a night and mostly takes place during the day, although the film doesn't fit this convention it does fit the convention of mystery. Quick cuts and slow panning is used to create the effect of panic, suspense and creates tension within the audience.

Popular pyschological thrillers are: 

Shutter Island 

Memento

Phonebooth



All three of the posters use the main character on the front, they are all male protaganist characters, none of them are looking towards the camera they are all looking towrads the side, I can relate this and get ideas for my teaser trailer.

Film Poster Research

Another product I have to make for my practical production is a film poster, I have done some research into film posters of the same genre that my teaser trailer will be to get ideas as to what I will want mine to look like. I chose to research and compare The Strangers and Dead Silence.

I feel as though 'The Strangers' film poster will be a good example to get ideas from as the genre and idea is slightly similar as to what my teaser trailer will be about, the title of the film is small and doesn't stand out as much as the rest of the picture does which shows that the title does not matter as much, the picture is of a young girl standing in what look like the kitchen/ living room and towards the back of the room in the poster there is another figure he is not as clearly seen, I would like to use this idea in my poster as my film idea/teaser trailer is about a unknown caller who phones up people and makes them kill others. If I decided to use this it could show that although the dictator is important he is hardly seen and you don't know where he is. I like the idea of this poster as you can see her surroundings and where she is, I like this because it gives you a clue as to where the scenario may happen without giving anything else away.

The Dead silence poster is a simplistic poster yet effective, it has a picture of a ventriloquists dummy on the front, the dummy has a finger to its lips as though to promote that you should be silent or something bad may happen, much like other horror films being silent is the key to surviving, much like The Strangers poster the name of the film is small and at the bottom perhaps because it is not as important as the picture. Unlike The Strangers poster where you can see the surroundings all you can see is a black background creating uncertainties.

Both posters are effective in how they have been produced and how they want to promote their films.

Synopsis

Our film idea is about a someone 'the dictator' who calls up various people 'the chosen ones' to play a game, the aim of the game is to kill off the other contestants until the last one standing is made to go to a one to one battle with 'the dictator' if 'the chosen one' kills 'the dictator' they will then take that place and become the new 'dictator'. 

The genre of our film will be psychological thriller.

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