Shots:

Eva and I decided to watch a wide selection of thriller trailers, trailers such as psychological, erotic, crime and mystery thrillers, from new releases to films released over 10 years ago. We sampled trailers such as the newly released hunger games, the conjuring and the lovely bones, along with films to be released in the coming years such as Flexx.  Although many of these trailers differ for many reasons, such as the time it was made, the type of thriller it is, the time it was made, the plot etc. Yet all trailers have one thing in common, that one thing being that the trailer is made up of lots of very quick cuts, I believe this is a great way to create tension and that’s why It fits in so well with this genre. Often the shots used to go alone with these quick cuts vary. Often beginning with a long shot, of even an establishing shot to create a scene, eventually working its way up to a close up or even an extreme close up, often used to fear on a persons face. This is also used in a bid to create more tension, and leave us holding our breath, we want to know what was chasing that girl, or infact was she ever found?  These trailers are used to act such as a cliffhanger leaving us confused wanting to know what happened next. Therefore the audience that view this trailer are left wanting to know what happens in the film so much so that they will make the effort to go to the cinema to see it or even buy the DVD. This wouldn’t happen if using all these Quick cuts didn’t create all this drama in the first place and specific shots, showing what a scary forest or abandoned house the character were in, or even show the fear on her face by a close up. 

Initial Ideas :

 Eva and I began thinking about the type of film we wanted to create. We was sure we wanted to create a thriller but unsure as to what type of thriller we wanted to create. So we decided to create a mind map, meaning we could bring all our ideas and options together:

 After drawing up this mind map we decided we wanted to create a scary psychological thriller, and base it around two main characters, which we wanted to be a young boy and girl.

Choosing a target audience:

Eva and I are aware that with our genre of a psychological thriller, the target audience is going to be of an older generation, this being said we decided to aim our film trailer towards both male and female in the age bracket off 18-25 the reason for this being because there are no limits with this age group like there would be if we did any younger age, we would have to consider the amount we would be allowed to show, and also we feel that people aged 18-25 are going to be more likely to want to watch a psychological thriller after seeing the trailer, we decided to carry out some primary research, to support this, and to make sure we were choosing the right age group to aim our trailer at. We decided to question members of our class, and family of both genders from age 17+, we showed them a variety of trailers from comedy, to rom/com, to horror and also a thriller and asked them which trailer grabbed there attention the most, 7 out of 10 of the people we asked answered with thriller and this is partly why we chose thriller as our final idea, and also we have easy access to people in which would fit into our target audience. 

Choosing a Genre:

Eva and I have decided to create a thriller trailer, as we feel with this genre you are not as limited as to what route you can take your story line down. We decided to go with a psychological thriller, as this type of genre often included a lot of quick cuts, and non diegetic sound, which we have the ability to do. When Eva and I was carrying out research we found that for us personally we enjoyed and found the thriller trailers more grabbing than any other genre, we also showed other members of our class, and family of both genders from age 17+, we showed them a variety of trailers from comedy, to rom/com, to horror and also a thriller and asked them which trailer grabbed there attention the most, 7 out of 10 of the people we asked answered with thriller and this is partly why we chose thriller as our final idea. Although we do not want our trailer to be a stereotypical thriller trailer, we want our trailer to have all the concepts of a psychological thriller.