Final 2nd Year Horror Trailer

Magazine Cover

Practice Trailer

Choice of Trailer

We decided to make a highlights trailer, this means we pick out clips from the entire film rather than focusing on a certain scene / time.  We decided highlights was a good fit for our trailer because we could show off some of the special effects that we wanted to include.  In a scene trailer only spanning a portion of the film we could only really show one or 2.  Making a highlights trailer also makes it easy to convey the narrative whereas a scene trailer you could only really get an idea of what is happening at one specific point and not the big picture.

At the time of planning this trailer there is a news article about Suicide Pact's in Japan.  This gave us the idea for the film since we could tie in to a real life scenario, which -in my opinion- makes the trailer more effective since this is a situation that actually happened.

Evaluation Part 1

Horror Poster Final

Horror Sub-genre Pie Chart

6 Panel Storyboard

Favourite Image Analysis

My favourite image is from the film 'The Hitcher' (1986).  This is my favourite image because I like the subtle way that the antagonist John Ryder (Rutger Hauer) is threatening Jim with a somewhat strange gesture.  

The saying 'Coins on the eyes' comes from ancient Greece where they would bury their dead with a coin on each eye so they could pay the boatman to cross the river styx to get to the afterlife.  So when Ryder places these coins on Jim's eyes he is saying that he is doomed.  This scene takes place straight after Jim thinks he has the upper-hand on John and holds a gun at him.  We find out the gun has no ammunition and Jim is completely deflated by this and is almost ready to give up.  This is shown through this picture since he has a completely lifeless facial expression and has his head tilted back, almost as if he'd passed away.

Magazine Cover Original Photo

Poster Original Photo