teaser trailers which were most popular in the questionnaire

Teaser trailers.



The girl with the dragon tattoo was one of the trailers which came out most popular in our questionnaire. From looking at this teaser trailer, the main thing which is included in the trailer is how fast paced it is. As the trailer is fast paced, it keeps the audience interested and guessing what is going to happen next. From our results of the questionnaire, one of the main aspects of what people expect to see in a teaser trailer is fast paced to keep them interested. A montage of images is also used at the start of the trailer which creates suspense as you wonder what is happening and the only way you can find out is by going to watch it at the cinema. By using a montage of images it makes the trailer face paced which entices the audience.

Editing:
The majority of the editing is done through using straight cuts, these create fast paced shots in order for the trailer to move along quicker. These are used throughout the trailer so that the audience stay interested. There are also cut aways from the actors facial expressions which creates suspense as the audience are left wondering why the actor is looking the way they do.  A montage of images is also used at the start of the trailer which creates suspense as you wonder what is happening and the only way you can find out is by going to watch it at the cinema. By using a montage of images it makes the trailer face paced which entices the audience.

Camera shots:
The establishing shot of the trailer is from someones point of view which also uses a tracking shot so you feel like your going up the drive with them, the effect of this makes the audience feel included as you feel like your in the car with them. Reaction shots are used to show the reactions of the actors face which indicate to the audience that something bad is going to happen which would make the audience feel intrigued to find out what it is. A crane shot is used to look at the car crash, by using a crane shot, it shows the audience that something bad has happen and it creates an action code.

Music:
The music of the trailer has a rock feel to it as drums and a bass guitar are used so it is non-deigetic sound. The use of the drums makes the trailer seem very fast paced, especially as the images are being cut away very quickly. 

results of the questionnaire

Results of the questionnaire.



1. Are you male or female?

We asked more male as the target audience of our film is more aimed at males as the plot and the genre connote a more male audience.



2. How old are you?

The age catergory for our film is 15-24 years old. The majority of the people we asked, we seventeen which fits in with our age limit.



3.  Do you watch thrillers?

From this graph, it showed that 17 people out of 20 watched thrillers and 3 people didnt. This shows that if this was a real film, there would be a good chance that quite a lot of people would go and watch it.



4. What is your favourite thriller?

The results of this question, left us with a variety of thrillers which we could look at as they cam out as the most popular, we have looked at some of these trailers as inpiration for out trailer.



5. What kind of conventions do you expect to see in a thriller?

As these are the most popular conventions what people expect to see in a thriller, it is essential that we included some of the most popular ones in out trailer.



6. Do you like the sound of a thriller drama?

20 out of 20 people liked the sound of a thriller/drama hybrid.



7. If I said thriller drama, what comes to your head first?

From this question, the results show that people have near enough the same ideas of what a thriller/drama is. From these results, it gives us an idea of what types of conventions we should be including within out trailer.

8. How often do you go to the cinema?

This shows that most people go to the cinema monthly which could mean that people could go and see our film in the cinema. 

9. Does seeing the teaser trailer of a film make you want to go and see it?

All of the people that took part in the questionniare would go and see a film if they thought the teaser trailer was good. This clearly shows that teaser trailers are a very big part in the success of the film.



10. What makes a good teaser trailer?

The main things in which make a good teaser trailer is action and unrevealing. These are the things that we need to included in our teaser trailer so that people will want to go and see our film.

questionnaire

The questionnaire

This is the questionnaire that we created to find out what kind of conventions we need to put in our drama/thriller teaser trailer. We collected the questionnaires back in and put the results in charts to show what we had found. By doing this questionnaire, we found out what the most popular thrillers were so we can get some inspiration from some of the trailers.

representation of teenages in the media

Representation.

We know that from the media, teenagers are represented negatively and the way they are represented within films and TV programmes backs up the negative labelling. The TV programme skins portrays teenagers as violent, sex objects, drugs users and alcoholics so it is no surprise that people see every teenager like that as there as no programmes in which portray them in a good light.



Films such as kidulthood and shank also give teenagers bad connotations as there is lots of violence, drug and alcohol use, parties and sex. By representing teenagers in this way, it gives them a bad name as when people see things in the media about teenage crime, they believe that every teenager is like that.

audience profile mood board

Audience mood board.

 

 

 

 

We created a audience profile mood board for the target audience of our trailer/film 'Redemption'. We decided that the target audience for our film is male ages 15-24 years old. We chose this target audience as we found from our research that it is mostly males aged 15-24 years old that like to go and watch thrillers/dramas and also the characters in our film are all male so they would fell more engaged within the film.

powerpoint with examples of thriller and drama

The genre of our film/trailer is going to be made up of a hybrid of genres which is thriller/drama. We chose to do these genres as they would both compliment each other.

The main features of a thriller is:
- excitement
- suspense
- anticipation
- anxiety
- tension

The main features of a drama:
- serious
- plot driven
- realistic characters
- good settings
- life situations/real life stories

thriller/drama spider diagram

Spider diagram of genre.

 

 

This is a spider diagram which I created to show the elements of a drama/thriller genre. As a group, we have decided that for our teaser trailer, we are going to do a hybrid of a thriller and drama as they have similar features and they would fit together well.