This shot shows how our character are alone and their are only the two of them present and no one else being around; for the shot shown in the beginning at least.
We have chosen this country road to shoot in specifically as it is quite closed in due to being surrounded by big and tall bushes on either side, also we can see ahead a bend, this is threatening as we the audience can not see nor know what could be coming around the corner.
We hoped by doing this shot from inside the car we hoped the audience them selves would imagine themselves to be in our two main characters shoes, creating fear.
We have seen this technique used in the opening to 'Nothing left to fear' a newly realised horror/thriller movie.
We show many shots of text through out our trailer, but this one is slighting different due to it being a rhetorical question. Eva and myself chose to this with the intention of it leaving the audience near to sure that the main two characters are leaving to begin a fresh start somewhere, but this piece of text having a question mark, being a rhetorical question will create tension and suspense, leaving the audience wanting to watch the trailer and also go onto watch this film.
We deliberately used white font on a black back ground leaving the writing to stand out and catch the audiences intentions. We also used the bold font "" as we felt it was basic; meaning our audience would focus on what our font said rather than the style of it, and we chose this font as it was natural bold, yet still simple. We chose to make our font small, yet big enough to read and grab the audience attention, we felt if we made it to big it was to 'trying', we feel by making it a smaller font and placing it toward the bottom right hand side, it gives the audience something specific to grab there attention and to base their focus on.
As the feel of our trailer changed and became more threatening, the music changed and also became more threatening and it is because of this we chose to change the font style and size also, along with the colour. We used the font style of 'Gaz' as it was all capitalised and extremely bold and eye catching. We chose to do this to show the difference between the writing shown when it was the 'unknown' to when things were brought together and it is made clear that there Is or possibly will be a problem.
During this shot we panned around the bonnet of the car we decided to use. We decided to do this to not only shot that they have a means of escaping if they need it, unless something was to go wrong with it. I feel this was a good idea because its fits the conventions of a thriller. Its an example of a stereotypical horror 'Don't go in to house' feel, people watching this will be thinking 'Don't get out of the car' the car is a way to make the audience feel like the characters are safe. We also decided to use this shot as it is a representation of the time we had tried to set of film in; the 80's. This isn't completely clear in our trailer as their wasn't many surrounds or other mise-en-scene shown, this would have been more clear in the film when created.
I feel this shot was effective as it establishes location and shows that our character is the only one around. I feel it is also threating as we see him coming closer and closer. We liked this idea for our trailer as we thought it had the potential the leave our audience slightly confused, which we thought was effective and yet slightly different to most trailers where you often get a clear picture of who is the antagonist. We thought this was different and attention grabbing at the same time, as we the audience are not sure if he is chasing some one or if he's the one being chased. Should we fear him or what he is running from?
For this shot we have tried to create a birds eye view, I attempted to achieve this by standing up on a high fencing being supported by Eva holding me up to ensure that I did not fall, I don't feel it is completely clear that this is a birds eye view as we could only shot from the highest possible point we could get to, which wasn't that high for us, yet we did our best, I feel we could of been better prepared and attempted to access a ladder and carried this to our location with us, this would of been better as we would of been able to film from a higher point.
At the same time I also feel we benefited from the angle we have filmed from, as we are still able to see our characters facial expressions which show fear, I feel this is effective because we know he's running from something, something which scared him but were just unsure what that something is and this creates suspense.
We chose to use this shot when filming out character Stan running around the corner as it showed his whole body and also his surrounding, we hoped it made the audience feel threatened as he was running closer and closer to the camera and their was no possibility of the audience stopping this or them getting away.
Eva and I both sat and discussed what shots we wanted to use, and we both decided that it was a necessity to use an extremes close up, we chose to use an extreme close up to show the fear on Britney's face. We wanted to show this fear but not show why the fear is there, why is she scared? Because of her boyfriend who is present, running towards us in a threatening manner or because of a scary person/creature who we; the audience can not see.
This shot is I feel effective as we have nothing other to focus on except her eyes, there are no other key features for us to see.
We chose to film this shot from a lower angle as this is different from the angles we have used in other shots, we felt that when filming from this angel it was more effective when watching Britney's eyes move side to side when she was observing her surroundings.
Although this shot has positive notes I feel that possibly the shot could of been much better, for example getting the camera closer to her face and cutting more of her nose and forehead out, meaning there would have been only one thing to focus on; her eyes. I also feel that her hair flicking in her takes some of the focus away from her eyes, but I also feel its adds an airy feel.
We found from our research that extreme close ups are common with in this genre to show the fear and also the confusion. We have seen this used in many thriller trailers, such as 'Your next' 'the purge' and also 'crawl'.
Our trailer is made up of various shots of Britney and Dylan alone, this is the one shot where we get to see both character together. This is when we get to see them together, looking worried, scared and frightened, this shot shows they have each other, but for how long? we put this shot after showing them apart to create tension. We personally thought this would work as we see shots of them together than apart this would leave the audience questioning do they make it through the film together? why are they so scared? what are they running from? I feel that this was effective and worked in the way I had hoped it would.
This is a birds eye shot used to show us the protagonist, but not give the protagonist away, I feel that in using this shot it creates tension as the face is hidden, and also the foot are hidden beneath the leaves, but from the stance and body language you can tell the character is looking around; what is this character looking for? I believe its clear that this is the protagonist but they slow motion that has been edited when seeing this character walk, and also the clothing that is seen meets the conventions of a antagonist, dark colours and leather. I feel that this idea worked and this shot was effective. We have seen a shot similar to this used in the thriller of part 2 of the final Harry Potter, foe example we seen a shot of Lord Voldemort feet whilst walking with his snake, his face is not shown and this creates tension, where is he walking to? I was felt this was very effective and this is why I suggested we should do something similar.
Eva and I tried our hardest to have a shot showing our actress Britney tied up, we also wanted to include the setting in this also. To show that she was tied up in a forest like place, showing that she is deserted. This shot is a close up and shows her struggling. We decided to do this hoping it would create tension and influence our audience decision to go and view the film, we feel we made the right choice in doing this, one view from our target audience said she felt this was one of the most effective shots. Saying that this left her thinking about the trailer, did she stay tied up, did she get away? What happened after this? I am glad we used this also as it showed another feature using a close up that wasn't just one of our actors face and another part of their body. I feel this was effective and create the tension we intended to create.
Here we have a extreme close up of one of our characters. We intended to show fear in this shot, yet determination. In trying to show determination in this shot we wanted the audience to wonder if this determination had helped him to succeed through the film and fight of the protagonist, or does he still have a battle to fight? I feel this is possible one of the best shots we have in our trailer and I am very impressed with it and glad we managed to capture it. the effect we have used through our trailer I feel also compliments the shot, due to the effect we have chosen to use the hair is darker than with our the effect meaning the significant parts of the face we have tried to focus on such as the right eye/eyebrow and nose are highlighted. When receiving feedback on our trailer, many people complemented this shot and how it was a great shot to finish our trailer on, it was also said that the soundtrack complements the shots excellently.
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