Prop List

• Gun as a weapon 
• Axe as a weapon 
• makeup 
• clothing 
• poppy 
• flower 

Directors Featurette

Evaluation Screening

Evaluation Part 4

Evaluation Part 3

Feedback from Final Cut

What did you like about the final trailer?

·       Music fits well x11
·       Cross cutting of face works well x3
·       Good acting
·       Good spinning shot
·       Liked the amount of zombies x6
·       Loved the inter-titles x6
·       Clear narrative x3
·       Good use of close up’s
·       Big cast x6
·       Loads of locations
·       Love the makeup/body horror x2
·       Variety of shots x3
·       Cinematography used well x2
·       Good editing x2
·       Built tension x2
·       A lot of good characters
·       Good use of shots

 

What do you think needs to be improved?

·       Don’t like the intertitles x4
·       Don’t understand about the hands on the camera shot
·       Music hurts the ears x2
·       Shot are repetitive
·       See no bullet out of the gun x2
·       Dialogue was unclear
·       Add contrast levels
·       Intertitles too quick
·       Intertitles don’t explain the narrative
·       Needs a jump scare x3
·       Only needs one gunshot
·       Different angle on gun needed x2
·       Intertitle too basic
·       More use of collision cutting
·       Jacket changes
·       More close ups
·       Bad production company sign x3

Side By Side Magazine Analysis

From looking at my magazine cover the redness just catches the attention, which is a conventional strategy used on magazine covers.  I used the red colour to connote blood and danger as this is very common with most gory horrors which is what my trailer was aiming for. The black background is something that is also a key aspect of horror magazines. The bleakness of this connotes death and evil, which are everything you’re going to get in a gory horror with zombies.

Just like the magazine cover beside mine I have used the archetype of a female; however you cannot actually tell whether they are the “final girl” or the victim. In my poster I have included a phallic symbol which is an axe which represents power and strength. 

I used the technique of listing the contents of the magazine down the side, which is very similar to the Joker Empire magazine, however on the opposite side and less of them.I also had the idea to use more than one image so I put together three zombie images together to fit in with the theme of my trailer and fanned them out to give it a more interesting look. 

I wanted to make my magazine look like a very popular magazine that reaches out to a wide range of audiences. I did this by using the catchphrase at the top “UK’s greatest film magazine”. I placed a head in front of the font which was conventional as can be seen in the film magazine cover and the Empire cover.The main focus is the face which can be seen in all three as well even though in mine the girl is not looking straight at the camera that was so that I could get the angle of the arm swooping round as if to go and kill her and as we can see the hand is covered in blood which gives of the impression that it could be a zombie but not giving away too much.