Postmodernism within Film

First Draft of Trailer

I have been working on Final Cut Pro to produce my trailer and as the deadline for this is approaching I chose to make my trailer all linked in order to have a first draft of my trailer. I will still need to add in different scenes, titles and music changes to my final product but this is what I have produced so far:

Filming Update 6

Developing Ideas

As I have started to film parts of my trailer, I discovered that my storyboard was not as strong as I thought and to make my trailer the best it can be I need to add in different scenes and make my narrative stronger. From filming, I have been able to shot good scenes which I think will work in my trailer. Other shots I have taken were not as good and need to be re shot or improved. To do this I need to brainstorm new ideas. Below are ideas I have came up with to include in my trailer.

-Moving away from the idea of a 'Hook man' and moving more towards the idea of a follower. I think this will be better as it is hard to convey the aspect of a Hook man in my trailer with both the limitation of props and the actor that I have chosen.

-The follower will still follow the same story line, however I will add a twist into my story where the person who the followers is stalking, turns out to be following them too. This will help improve my narrative and will allow me to shoot more shots.

As I have been filming, I noticed I have been focusing on more artistic shots rather than the narrative, therefore need to focus on the narrative more.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Filming Update 5

Filming Update 4

Research into horror genre magazine front covers

I have decided to look into a magazine which is for a specific genre, the genre I am basing my trailer on which is horror. I found a producer of horror magazines called 'Fangoria'. These magazine feature horror films specifically. Previously I have only looked at main stream magazines rather than genre specific magazines. These magazines are different as the main images and secondary images are all about horror. The colours used within the front cover are related to horrors, dark colours are used and red and orange as all these colours connote darkness, anger and danger, all things associated with horror films. All the sub headings include information about horror films to keep the theme. These sort of magazines are very specific to the genre therefore the audience range is more narrow and can be seen as niche. The layout of these two magazines, which are from the same producer, have the same layout. The barcode has been placed in the bottom right hand corner on both magazines and the sub headings only on the left hand side. This is different to main stream magazines as these have sub headings on both sides of the main image  instead of just the left hand side. These magazines are good as straight away, anyone who sees this magazine will know that this is related to the genre horror.