The task that we were set was to create a horror movie trailer, a poster and a magazine front cover. We broke down the task into three sectors as we came to conclusion that this would make it easier for us to carry out the work as we would focus on one part at a time rather then everything. We decided to produce the trailer first then the magazine and poster after which was because we would be able to use the material gathered from the trailer to fund the magazine and poster, which would save time and money.
The trailer would need to follow the horror conventions however, we decided that as a group, we would challenge some of the conventions to make our trailer stand out from the rest and gather a wide audience before the movie was released. The same sort of theme would continue in the magazine front cover and poster.
The first step was to decide on a group. The final group consisted of Me, Anil, Rishi and Ashwin and once we decided on our group, the next step was to research on what a trailer is and why is it used as well as some analysis of some trailers in the same genre to get a feel for what we were looking at to produce in the breakdown of the different types of horror such as psychological horror, comedy horror and romance horror, for example. The reason for this is because the different types of horror contain different conventions and it is important to understand and acknowledge them before the production part of the process begins.
