Marketing our film

Big brand places such as KFC, McDonalds and Burger King are very popular with our audience preferably young people aged 16-24. Using big name brands to advertise our product with our horror theme will keep the audience enticed. For example having a red and black McDonalds packaging which reinforces the horror theme. The use of our slogan and a picture of the fingers. With this form of advertising we are reminding the audience of the film and creating a buzz and encourage more audience members.

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Meeting 7

Organisation: BluWhsiky


Members present: Cheyenne Dwyer, Morin Keshiro and Tiffany White

Date/Time: 19th Nov 2010 - 14.00



Notes on the agenda:


*Review of progress- We as a group did a quick review of the progress we have made in regards to filming. We have filmed all the necessary shots that needed to be re-filmed with success before the deadline and an improvement has been made on the quality of filming.



*Editing- In order to keep on top of work, a lot of our spare time has to be put into the editing of our teaser trailer. We have started to put the shots together in order of the storyboard and time now has to be invested in making the cuts and doing more research on sound.



*Magazine cover and Poster - The photos taken of our actress that will be used for our magazine cover and poster should start being edited and photoshopped in the coming week.

Professional Latex making

Latex is a liquid forming product used by many make-up artists in the film industry to give the effect of realism in creating cuts, scabs, and deep wounds. For the product to be used effectively, research has to be done on the skin as well as the human body so to know how these cuts and scabs may form especially when trying to create realism for film.

Things that will be needed:

• Soldering tools


• Spray paint


• plastic cup


• J-wax equivalent would be Mr.Sheen


• Tile or something with a flat surface


• Latex


• Powder

The clay is first spread out on to the flat surface and using the soldering tool, cut carefully round the edges and spray paint the mould with Mr.sheen or J-wax (both do the same thing). Also we have make sure that the cup fits the mould and using a glue gun go round the edges. This is to make First, place a Plastic cup on a flat surface and with a pen draw round the edges and of the clay mould.

In the cup we added white powder until it rose above the water, this was then to be poured on to the clay mould. When moulding no air bubbles should be gained.

The latex then dries up to form a caked mould.

We then cover the top layer of the latex mould with fresh latex and use a cotton bud to spread it across, especially the 'injury' indentations.

This is what the latex wound will look like when dried up.

How We Filmed

During filming we had to keep changing the lighting and the focus each time the shot changed. This allowed us to have the appropiated setting for each scene.



These photographs we were filming wwere for our orignal idea for the trailer which protrayed a normal looking women with fingers and blood around her neck, with a bowl of blood and the weapons she used to kill her victims.



In the first stages of we let all members have a go at filming and taking pictures to establish who could produce better picturs therefore be in charge of filming and the camera.






Before setting up the filming equipment, we applied make-up to our models. This was so not to leave the equipment left unguarded. We putting the lighting into place, this was adjusted many times to see how it looked on film. First we filmed the news reporter in the studio,with this we shot four times. We had many difficulties filming this scene and decided to film it again.

Inspiration for poster

1) Jennifers Body

For our trailer, magazine and poster, we adapted some features of Jennifer’s body for work. We wanted a strong sexy female who preys on me. We wanted a female to prey on men to go against the typical conventions of a horror film. Many horror films such as Halloween and Friday 13, have a single male killer who will kill a wide range of people but one women would survive. We wanted to break this convention in order to appeal to a wider market due to horror films usually being targeted to young males. We used Jennifer’s body as a template because that is the most recent film who managed to reach out to more than the typical audience. in the two posters above of Jennifer’s Body you see Meagan Foxx posing as a attractive school girl. We wanted to make sure that our lead female could portray the same strong persona that Meagan Foxx has.

2) True Blood and Jennifers body

You can see in the above pictures that they have used a slight dip of blood to show there is some sort of killing occurs in the show. We wanted to go for a more full on blood approach to show torture and feast of flesh of our leading lady and to fit into the slasher genre.

Poster and Magazine Drafts

Props Final

Our Props


For our horror trailer we had different props to help our audience identify our film and characteristics of our film.


Our main prop was our fingers. We wanted to create something new and iconic that the audience could identify our film by so we created the FINGERS. Our fingers we made with latex. We layered latex on to our fingers to get the print. We had to do several layers to make sure the latex was thick enough. We then painted them in foundation and blood then stuffed then with tissue and clay.

The other props we used in our teaser trailer was a football, football boots to signify her target victims.

football to identify her victims for college football players.

weapons used to killer her victimes and the blood mess after.

Costume/Make-Up

My group's horror trailer is about a female cannibal whose victims are young college football players. Although not initially intended, our movie trailer is similar to Karyn Kusama's comedy horror, Jennifer's Body(2009). We took inspiration from the posters and photographs for the costume and make-up for our main actress.

Posters for Jennifer's Body

Our main actress Caroline Jemirifo. The idea of blood dripping down the side of her mouth as if she had just feasted on someone. That is why the setting of the dinner table works well.

For the victims, we used stage blood and purple and green eye make up to create the impression that they had been beaten up and bruised badly by the killer. [image]

Meeting 6

Organisation: BluWhisky

Members present: Cheyenne Dwyer, Morin Keshiro, Tiffany White

Date/Time: 8th Nov 2010 - 1.45pm

Notes on the agenda:


*Re-filming

We discovered that due to time constraints and other factors, some shots of the trailer filmed are not up to the standards we want. The best action to take would be to re-cast and film those scenes again. We have scheduled this to take place on the 16th November 2010.



* Poster and Magazine

After going through the pictures taken for the poster and magazine cover, we narrowed down our options that we will choose from.

Sub-Genre Monster

The monster genre is mainly centered around the struggle between human and one being a monster. As there is no specific genre, monster movies may sometimes be labelled as a horror, sci-fiction or fantasy.

Anacondas: Trail of Blood (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkQX5P1j3fw
The film recieved a poor reception due to the low budget effects used, the plot and the acting which could have been polished.

Hellboy (2004) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob9J3kCELXE
The film was reviewed well by most critics despite some being unimpressed with the special effects being nothing new.

Alien Vs Predator (2004) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GT59zmF_Oo
The film, Alien Vs Predator was very successful grossing over $172 million which was the highest grossing for the franchise, however, the critics were generally negative. On Rotten Tomatoes the film scored a 21% approval rating.

Bone Snatcher (2003) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyTWb-Sn_wo
The British-Canadian Horror film was based on a screenplay from Malcom Kohll and Gordon Render.

Cloverfield (2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufYF0f-zMgY
Despite the fact that Cloverfield reached more than $170 million in gross revenue, the film had been criticised for focusing on the perspective of the human cast. Also, the film has been said to look at terrorism and the 9/11 attacks.

EFFECTIVENESS

Many monster movies shown today tend to have less effect unless the special effects are done effectively so have an impact on the audience. Due to this reason many that have been released recently have recieved poor views such as the Anacondas: Trail of Blood (2009).

Sub-Genre Horror Comedy

Comedy Horror combines elements of comedy and horror fiction . This genre it also tends to cross the the Black comedy genre which is often a satire topic of death. Comedy Horror allows the audience to both laugh and scream at the same time. This gives the audience surety that the killer can't get to you.

Scary Movie 4 (2006 US) The film recieved mixed reviews, the film was recieved less favoured following the three before that with the second one recieving the worst reviews.















Dead Snow released in the US, Norway and the UK (US June 2009 ) (Norway January 2009) (UK August 2009)

Drag Me To Hell (May 2009)

Piranha 3D (August 2010)

Films such as Piranha 3D recieved positive reviews with over 80% approval rating proving Comedy Horror when taken a sophiscated approach can be successful.

Sub-Genre Japanese Horror

Japanese Horror which is sometimes referred to as J-horror is the Japanese contribution to the horror fiction. This Horror genre tends to be focused on the psychological aspects of Horror which helps to build tension. Japanese Horror is becoming increasing popular with the Western culture with Asian directors remaking films for the US market such as: The Ring, The Grudge etc...

Examples of Japanese Horror:

One Missed Call (2004/2003) J-Horror movie directed by Takashi Miike and was remade in 2008 for American audiences.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpsZQrJazq0

Marebito (2004) directed by Takashi Shimizu. The film has been given different titles due to its release in other countries other than Japan such as the UK.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV7J8WYETXo

Cursed (Japan 2004) (America 2005) The original Japanese title is 'Chô' kowai hanashi A: yami no karasu. This film was based on the written work of Yumeaki Hirayama and is the first theatrical release of the Cho Kowai Hanashi series.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJGlJ2A1UoE

Infection (2004)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9TbECLC1fE

With the level of interest in Japanese Horror by the US market, many japanese films have been remade and been successful. For example the 1998 film, The Ring brought the image of yūrei to the Western culture. Japanese Horror also meet their aim of using ghosts and folk religion to build tension and suspense therefore making them successful in the Horror genre. Many of the notable directors have directed successful films such as the The Grudge and The Ring.

Hideo Nakata is a Japanese film director and is mainly familiar with Western audiences for his work on Japanese Horror films. The Ring which was directed by Hideo Nakata grossed 12 billion yen ($137.7 million) being the highest grossing horror film in Japan.

This website provides information about Asian horror movies old and new http://www.asian-horror-movies.com/