Casting for trailer remake

Blog evaluation

We were asked to spend 5-10 minutes evaluating another student's blog, here is Jonathon's evaluation of my blog:

Remaking trailer

I have chose to remake the teaser trailer for Despicable Me as it is a film that I enjoy and think that it would be an interesting trailer to remake.

This is the trailer:

Although I obviously will not be able to make an exact copy of this trailer I am hoping to be able to recreate the shots, acting and comedy theme of this trailer.

My poster

Here is the poster that I made for an imaginary horror film called 'Closure':

Overall, I feel that (although it is very amateur) the poster has fitted into many of the conventions of horror film posters. It has an image which is linked to the film's storyline which is central to the poster and takes up a large amount of space, a dark background and the film title in the bottom third of the photo. Although it fits into many of the conventions of a horror film poster I do not feel like it is a great success as it does not look particularly attention catching, its only merit being that it is clearly a poster designed to advertise a horror film.

Horror film posters

I am making a poster for a horror film but before I did this I chose to closely examine the conventions of existing horror film posters to ensure that my posters fits into these conventions (or perhaps give me scope to create a slightly unconventional poster).

By looking closely at these posters I have come to these conclusions:

Examples of posters from different genres

DRAMA

Briefly looking at the posters for drama films it appears that the main emphasis on these posters is based entirely on the main characters to the film (such as the two lovers etc.). There is very little focus on any of the text apart from the title and tagline suggesting that these are the most important things to the potential audience that the film makers are trying to reach. Overall, the colours used in the posters can vary quite drastically but tend to be fairly neutral and soft colours.

COMEDY

Comedy posters also focus mainly on portraying the main characters of the film with less focus on the text. The characters are sometime shown in unusual or comical poses or situations, however, they are also sometimes just shown face on. The overall colours of comedy posters tend to be quite vibrant as this helps to convey the comedy aspect of the film and is more suitable than darker colours.

HORROR

Unlike comedy and drama, all but a few horror posters do not even show the main character to the story which places more of an emphasis on the storyline. This is done by the use of images which can also sometimes appear to be quite cryptic which could help entice the reader. Overall, the colours used in horror posters are dark and dull, however, there is also a large use of red as this is a colour often assosciated with both danger and blood (things which are present in most horror films).

Film posters

CONVENTIONAL

In class we were asked to think of what we believed was meant by the word conventional. It proved to be far harder than we expected as we could not find a specific way to define it but after listening to each other's ideas and pooling them together we came to a decision that being conventional means to stick to the norm or standard way in which things are done.

We were then asked to look at and apply this to film posters to determine what the conventions of a film poster was and whether it varied from genre to genre in order to give us help in making our own poster for a specific genre.