How our trailer conforms to the thriller genre.

Using a police man made our trailer seem much more realistic, along with being part of the iconography that makes our film a trailer. 

This shot of the newspaper we created also made our trailer much more realistic.

This was one of the shots we used to adapt the voyeurism theory to our trailer, putting the audience on the same level as Oli, watching his mom and step-dad. 

We used this shot to establish Dylan as the main character and show that he is dominant throughout the trailer. 

Genre Theory

We chose the idea of a child killer, to slightly break the boundaries of the thriller genre. This meant that we had to build up the conventions of the genre though other things such as the iconography - the use of the woods, and the police and the idea that Dylan is missing. The conventions of the thriller genre are often to do with the editing. We used Quick cuts and camera angle changes are used and music that creates tension. . Thrillers often involve the use of mirrors or stairs which we created shots based on both. 

Voyeurism

Most thrillers use voyeuristic elements, Hitchcock pioneered the use of a camera to mimic how people see, encouraging viewers to engage in a form of voyeurism. For example Psycho has many voyeuristic pleasures for the audience, including the main character Norman Bates alongside many other characters in the film. We adapted this idea for our film by using mirrors to reflect the voyeurism. We used a shot of Dylan in the rear view mirror, to show him watching over his mom and step dad and also the shot of Dylan in the window, watching his step dad reading the paper. This means that audience members will be encourages to enjoy Dylans watching, aligning them with him as a character.

Our final Trailer.

Warner Brothers

Warner Bros. produces and distributes between 18 and 22 films each year. The company either fully finance or co-finaces the films it produces and maintains its worldwide distribution rights. It also distributes films that are totally financed and produced by third-parties. the company is a global leader in the marketing and distributing of feature films, with offices in more than 30 countries, releasing films in over 120 international territories.New Line Cinema, part of Warner Bros. Entertainment since 2008, coordinates its development, production, marketing, distribution and business affairs activities with Warner Bros.The company’s vast library, considered one of the best and largest in the world, consists of more than 6,650 feature films, which means 6,650 trailers.In 2010, the Warner Bros. Pictures Group broke the all-time industry worldwide box office record with receipts of $4.814 billion. In the same year Warner Home Video was, once again, the industry’s leader, with an overall 20.6 percent market share in total DVD and Blu-ray sales. 

We chose Warner Bros as our trailer distributer due to their amazing reputation in the market. Having your film distributed by Warner will mean that many Warner fans watch it, let alone all the audiences you build up yourself. 

History of Film Trailers

The first promotional trailer was not made for a feature film, it was created as a promotional device for a musical. The first film trailer was produced by the same person in 1914 for a Charlie Chaplin film. Up until the 1950's trailers was made by the National Screen Service, who were hired by film companies to create the trailers. The early trailers consisted of short clips showing key features of the film, alongside narration and a soundtrack. They also included text and a cast run. Casablanca is an example of one of the first film trailers.





As films changed throughout the 60's, so did trailers. The huge change in culture bought on a change in how films should be advertised.Andrew J. KuehnAndrew J. Kuehn was a very influential trailer producer, he changed the way trailers were made for his 1964 trailer for the film 'Night of the Iguana'. He went on to produce trailers for Steven Spielberf films, including the massive 'ET'

Designing our poster

 This is how our poster began. After analysing some current film posters, we started to create our own. We used Oli in the background as the main character dylan, appearing to look over his mom and step-dad, making the poster look quite menacing. We used the woods as the background as this is where most of our trailer will be filmed.

We decided on taking a still shot for the photo, not as shot of the trailer as it will look much more effective for the genre we are working in.










This is our posted, when we re-drew a second draft and added colour, we liked the idea of having the same 'flashback' as the first, but putting a bloody number 2 behind it as this fits in with the genre, as well as linking the film in with the first one.















We are really happy with this, and are just going to take the photo and see how it works when using photoshop to edit it.