During the planning stage of our project, we disgust many different type of genre, we decided on the horror genre above all, we also considered other genres of film, such as:
Action
As a great fan of action and martial arts film, the first thought that came to my mind was an action film. After careful deliberation I realised that because I lacked both the required skills and know how for a respectable action scene, the action sequences (which are the main hook of an action film) would be of a b-movie quality.
Some examples of action films are, Die hard, Drunken Master and Gladiator.
Comedy
A comedy film was also considered, but then we thought that a differing sense of humour could potentially ruin the film for someone, Also if the film was not found funny then the project as a whole would have failed.
A few examples of the Comedy genre are; Clerks, Step Brothers and The Water Boy.
Science Fiction
Making a sci-fi film trailer, would suffer that same problems that making an action trailer would suffer, due to a lack of know how and expertise, the trailer would quickly start to look like a cliched b-movie.
Some well known Sci-fi films are Blade Runner, the Star Wars series and The Terminator series.
Westerns
As iconic as western films are, recreating a western film's mandatory sunny, sandy back drop would be quite difficult. Another problem would be creating the right mood and setting for the time period. Since both of these things would be difficult for us, we decided against it.
Some examples of western films are, Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
Chick flicks
The genre know as "Chick Flicks" are commonly aimed at teenage girls, the stereotypical chick flick conventions are, rival, love and school.
Some exmaple of chick flick movies are, Means girl, Angus thongs and pefect snogging and john tucker must die.
Fantasy
A fantasy film are a large iconic genre of film, although with out a large budget and a large special effects studio, they are a lot less breath taking and visually stunning, for example Lord of the Rings would not have been as impressive or a stunning if all the of the orcs were running around in paper mache hats.
Some examples of the Fantasy genre are; Alice in wonderland, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Conan the Barbarian.
We finally decided on making a horror film trailer, for the following reasons:
Horror
We thought that a horror film would be the easiest to make since most of the themes, the violence and the horror would be implied in a trailer and implying things can be done with single shots and with talking and voice overs.
Some examples of Horror films are The Thing, Dawn of the dead and the Saw Series.
Horror has many sub genres and which gave us a wide selection of sub genres to pick from, here are some examples.
Zombie Film
As a fan of zombie I was very intent at 1st of doing one, after some in depth research in to the sub genre, I concluded that the zombies would end up looking like people who have just been painted red, and with out the large 200+ crowds of zombies sweeping around like they have on the studio produced Zombie films, the film would be lacking an sense of urgency.
A few well known examples of the Zombie Genre are: Dawn of the dead, Black snow and Evil Dead.
Psychological Horror films
Psychological Horror films are being increasingly more popular. We took some aspects of this genre since Psychological horror films are, I find personally more terrifying than a hack and slash style film. The typical conventions of a Psychological film are; playing on a characters, fears, guilt and vulnerability, as well as using eerie sound effects and relevant music as well as using the characters emotional instability.
Some examples of Psychological Horror Films are; The Shining, The Ring and Psycho.
Slasher films
Slasher films are among the most common of all the horror sub genres, they contain a strong use of gore and shocking sites and images. We used aspects from this Sub genre in our trailer.
Some well known Slasher Horror films are The Texas Chainsaw massacre, Halloween and Jason X.
Monster Films
Another genre of horror films are the monster films, which involve large and usually ugly monsters destroying towns and cities. The main problem is making a monster film is that with out a company of special effects experts it won't meet moderns standards which would lower it to b-movie quality.
Some examples of monster films are, Godzilla, King Kong and King Kong vs Godzilla.
Westerns
As iconic as western films are, recreating a western film's mandatory sunny, sandy back drop would be quite difficult. Another problem would be creating the right mood and setting for the time period. Since both of these things would be difficult for us, we decided against it.
Some examples of western films are, Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
Chick flicks
The genre know as "Chick Flicks" are commonly aimed at teenage girls, the stereotypical chick flick conventions are, rival, love and school.
Some exmaple of chick flick movies are, Means girl, Angus thongs and pefect snogging and john tucker must die.
Fantasy
A fantasy film are a large iconic genre of film, although with out a large budget and a large special effects studio, they are a lot less breath taking and visually stunning, for example Lord of the Rings would not have been as impressive or a stunning if all the of the orcs were running around in paper mache hats.
Some examples of the Fantasy genre are; Alice in wonderland, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Conan the Barbarian.
We finally decided on making a horror film trailer, for the following reasons:
Horror
We thought that a horror film would be the easiest to make since most of the themes, the violence and the horror would be implied in a trailer and implying things can be done with single shots and with talking and voice overs.
Some examples of Horror films are The Thing, Dawn of the dead and the Saw Series.
Horror has many sub genres and which gave us a wide selection of sub genres to pick from, here are some examples.
Zombie Film
As a fan of zombie I was very intent at 1st of doing one, after some in depth research in to the sub genre, I concluded that the zombies would end up looking like people who have just been painted red, and with out the large 200+ crowds of zombies sweeping around like they have on the studio produced Zombie films, the film would be lacking an sense of urgency.
A few well known examples of the Zombie Genre are: Dawn of the dead, Black snow and Evil Dead.
Psychological Horror films
Psychological Horror films are being increasingly more popular. We took some aspects of this genre since Psychological horror films are, I find personally more terrifying than a hack and slash style film. The typical conventions of a Psychological film are; playing on a characters, fears, guilt and vulnerability, as well as using eerie sound effects and relevant music as well as using the characters emotional instability.
Some examples of Psychological Horror Films are; The Shining, The Ring and Psycho.
Slasher films
Slasher films are among the most common of all the horror sub genres, they contain a strong use of gore and shocking sites and images. We used aspects from this Sub genre in our trailer.
Some well known Slasher Horror films are The Texas Chainsaw massacre, Halloween and Jason X.
Monster Films
Another genre of horror films are the monster films, which involve large and usually ugly monsters destroying towns and cities. The main problem is making a monster film is that with out a company of special effects experts it won't meet moderns standards which would lower it to b-movie quality.
Some examples of monster films are, Godzilla, King Kong and King Kong vs Godzilla.
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