MEDIA STUDIES – ADVANCE PORTFOLIO MOVIE TRAILER EVALUATIONBy:

Asad Tanveer

Institute: Beaconhouse Newlands

INTRO:

Media Advance portfolio consists of one brief and two ancillary task which we are suppose to do for the OCR EXAMINATIONS.

I selected Movie teaser trailer brief along with Poster of the movie and magazine featuring the movie.

I decided to do horror suspense thriller movie’s trailer.

I did research in the past few months in my pre-production time for the genre and looked for a lot of movie trailers in this genre.

I watched the trailers of Saw series, Grudge trailers, Paranormal activity trailer and other supernatural horror movie trailers.

I started to write down the shots and then asking my friends about me which gave me a lot of comments and suggestions which helped me a lot.

The movie teaser trailer should be at least 30seconds short and 1minute and 30 seconds maximum.

RESEARCH AND PLANNING Selection of Genre?- I selected Horror, suspense and thriller as my genres to create a

hybrid genre.- A little information regarding genres? ( wikipedia.org )- Suspense is a feeling of uncertainty and anxiety about the outcome of certain actions,

most often referring to an audience's perceptions in a dramatic work. Suspense is not exclusive to fiction, though. It may operate whenever there is a perceived suspended drama or a chain of cause is left in doubt, with tension being a primary emotion felt as part of the situation.

- Horror films often deal with the viewer's nightmares, hidden fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the horror genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage, commonly of supernatural origin, into the everyday world. they may overlap with the fantasy, supernatural, and thriller genres.

- Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and television programming that uses suspense, tension and excitement as the main elements. Thrillers heavily stimulate the viewer's moods giving them a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, surprise, anxiety and/or terror. Thriller films tend to be adrenaline-rushing, gritty, rousing and fast-paced. Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists and cliffhangers are used extensively.

These three genres are very much attracted by our younger generations who are quite fascinated and excited to watch such movies.

These genres brings out fear and makes the viewer so excited about what will happen next that creates the viewer to keep their interest in the movie till the end.

Horror movie conventions are that the movie should be shot in the Dark location and the sounds should be appropriate to create a horror/scary atmosphere.

Suspense movie should always have a mystery which should thrill the audience while watching the movie.

Movies I am inspired from are:- The ring- The silence of the Lamb- The orphanage- The others

These movies had something in common i.e that there was one murderer/supernatural power who caused damage in the whole movie creating a sense of being restless among the viewers.

RESEARCH AND PLANNINGSTORY? My movie is about a school boarding house, a incident of murder took

place 11 years ago but since then no witness and no evidence was found.

The movie revolves around those attacks by the unknown person or supernatural power who kills or attacks the person when they enter a specific place.

The main story starts which focuses a group of four boarding house students who sneaks out of their room at the middle of the night and plans to have some adventure.

They decide to play the same game which was played by the young student who was murdered 11 years ago.

These incidents doesn’t stop, in these 11 years a lot of attacks were reported by the students and staff.

On March 2013, the students playing the game dares a boy to go walk around in the corridors where no one was allowed to enter especially at the night time

He still went to that place and had an encounter with a attack by an unseen.

The trailer ends with the person being dragged to death.

THE CAST AND LOCATION? I selected Ahsan Khan Niazi as my leading actor in the movie trailer. Abdullah Khawaja as the live reporter who opens up the trailer. Hatim Salman, the guy I should be thankful for the voice over and, Azeem Malik for helping me direct the movie. The supporting cast: Hassib Tarar, Mubasher Naseer.

Ahsan Khan Niazi did the main leading role in the movie trailer being the guy who is afraid and attacked by the unknown creature/person.

Abdullah Khawaja did the live reporting of the murder which happened in 2002 in Newlands.

Hatim Salman, The guy with the voice. He did the voice over for my movie trailer .

CAMERA SHOTS AND EDITING

I have inserted a title for the trailer with my name and the brief name for the portfolio.

I used the production house name as 'Newlands Media Production' and used its picture/logo in the start of the Trailer. It is one of the conventions of a trailer to use the Media production house logo or the picture in the video.I chose this name because i am studying in Beaconhouse Newlands School Lahore.

The green screen was used to show the certificate and the PG rating of the movie. I searched the green screen according to my PG on google.com and used it in my movie.

The movie Trailer starts with this shot where Abdullah reports  live from Beaconhouse Newlands showing the reporting from the year 2002. A medium close up shot have been taken for the live reporting scene in order to keep the focus on the person and the news both. Abdullah wore a black tie, A formal shirt and Glasses in order to get the look of a reporter/journalist.

Newspapers were added to show the evidence of the incidents that took place during the 11 years time.

A establishing or a long shot showing the four boarders late at the night with nothing to do decides to play a game truth and dare. The shot have been taken in the corridor of the school with only one light switched on from the top, which focused on the characters only and the background is totally dark.

This scene was shot in the corridors of the school. The location was dark and perfect for the scene. The camera was stable with a long shot while Ahsan came running towards the camera.

This is the shot where the bottles points at Ahsan Khan and he choses Dare. I used Close up shot of the bottle while it was spinning then start to pan to the face of Ahsan Khan to show the expressions or reaction of the character however in editing I decreased the opacity of the specific scene and over layed it with another shot where he was running.

A hand-held shot with panning ended the trailer.  This is the last scene from the trailer where Ahsan Khan Niazi is dragged by the murderer/killer or whatever you think the attacker is

I used Adobe Premiere 2.0 for editing my movie trailer.

The timeline of sequence 02 from the whole movie. This sequence included shots from the boarding corridor where they decide to play.

Some of the files for the movie trailer.

The whole movie trailer sequences combined in one sequence to export it. The audio files have been added in this.

Exporting the movie in AVI format then converting it to MP4 format with the help of windows movie maker.

Screenshot of the transactions and effects used in the movie. Over laying of the video is also shown in Video 1 and Video 3.

ANCILLARY TASKS

The second Ancillary task which I had to do with the Movie trailer was a magazine featuring the movie of which trailer I have made. So i used the film strips from www.images.google.com and Placed them on the top and the left side showing the Latest movies and on the background i placed the movie's poster. The conventions of the magazine have been already placed on the cover i.e the barcode, issue date/number, the price, masthead etc.

The ancillary task we were suppose to do was a poster with a magazine featuring the film. I did not chose the webpage and did this instead of that because I think i am better at designing the poster and magazine than making a whole webpage. So this is my Movie poster. The poster have the basic colour schemes of Red and white. Red always connotes fear and danger so I used red more as it is a horror suspense thriller movie. On the right side i have a Blur Image of Ahsan Khan who was playing the main lead in the movie. The poster should have the minimum details as the movie is yet not released so i kept it in a minimalistic theme.