As part of our marketing campaign, we was asked to create a Film poster for our film. In doing so, we as a group researched into horror teaser Film posters to base our ideas on and have a feel of what a horror poster looked like. As you can see, most of the posters have dark backgrounds with the protagonist as the centre of the poster, it uses a variety of shots, such as, mid shots, long shots and close ups. This gave us the initiative to use different shot types for our film poster.
These trailers had been taken into account whilst creating our own teaser trailer, as well as the film poster.
Commonalities in a Slasher horror killer:
o Personalities are masked and hidden thus keeping humanity unseen in killers mind or victims.
o Lack or distortion of human qualities.
o Choice of weapons suggests sadistic nature of killing.
o Costume codes show lack of awareness of image and covey isolation from society.
o Body language suggests overriding resilience and strength.
o Sadistic or far off gaze suggest a warped mind.
o Chaos is expressed through the victim’s lack of verbal or non verbal communication with the killer.
o The mask of the killers suggests a unacceptance for the crimes committed by the killer.
o Costume codes make the setting more terrifying.
o Normal everyday objects become menacing in the wrong hands.
The protagonist would have most of the commonalities of in slasher horror killers such as; ‘Personalities being masked and hidden thus keeping humanity unseen in killers mind or victims’ by him having a mental illness which triggers his reaction. The choice of weapons suggests sadistic nature of killing, by him killing people with ropes and gym equipment. Chaos is expressed through the victim’s lack of verbal or non verbal communication with the killer by him not even having physical contact with his victims only when the attack is taken place. Also Normal everyday objects become menacing in the wrong hands due to him doing the killings with rope and gym equipment.
This is the first slide showing the Connotation and Denotation of slasher horror killers:
Name: Peter Wilcox
Age: 16
Education: Highland Grove Community School
Interests: Surfing the internet and jump rope.
Personal Profile: Peter grew up in a small town called Highland grove. He was one of many as he has 6 other brothers and sisters. His mother didn’t know she was pregnant with him until it was too late to get rid of him, so he was a mistake, according to his mother. So whilst she was pregnant with him she drank and smoked everyday without fail. As a result of that Peter was born with a mental illness called sadistissonia – meaning that he had no control over his mental and physical reactions to anger and sadness. The doctors told his mother that it could trigger off at any stage of his life. Due to his illness he didn’t get the attention and love from his mother like the rest of his brothers and sisters. Instead he was isolated and withdrawn from his nuclear family as well as society. There was only one thing that made Peter happy and that was a gym skipping rope. He treasured that skipping rope because it was the first thing his first crush ever brought for him when he was 15, right before she died. She was murdered by a famous serial killer who kidnapped her. She was the only one that Peter ever cared about. Since the incident, Peter developed an obsession towards famous serial killers; he searched most of the brutal killings online, most of them happened to be local. He began to take pleasure in the stories as he read them online, he somehow found comfort in knowing the reasons why they killed innocents. He then became envious of all the killers appearing on the news and headlines. Not realising that the incident had triggered his illness, he read the latest story of a boy killing the whole of his class year just to become famous, using a bow and arrow from the story robin hood. He then began to think about what weapon he could use to do these killings that was easy to get hold of in high school. He then remembered the rope that was given to him by his crush, and decided that that was the best weapon to use to kill students in his year. After his first killing Peter then became obsessed with the adrenaline he felt when committing these killings, on his last victim, he made sure that he fell asleep next to her, in order to get caught in the act. When he was asked ‘why did he commit all these murders?’ He declared “I was giving them the excitement and scandal they secretly craved”
As part of the film publicity campaign we had to create a film magazine front cover. In order for our magazine front cover to be successful, we decided to research into existing magazine front covers. In doing so, I believe that it helped in the process of making our own magazine front cover. As you can see in this photo, it is a close up of a vampire, this is effective because it allows you to become up close and personal with the character on the front cover. Looking through most of this magazine's front covers's most of the images seem to be closeups of the character in the image. This magazine is a popular horror film magazine, so by looking at the typography it tells us straight away that this is a horror magazine, due to the sharp edges of the lettering. The stylized typography on the magazine front cover can then give us an insight to what font and image we could consider using for our magazine front cover.
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