Stereotypical Horror Fan

This is an insight into what a stereotypical horror fan of the gory genre would look like. A person named John, 24 years old working at his local music shop. Known for playing the guitar and playing Football. His favourite horror film would be the Human Centipede. He is a fan of the mainstream horror films and would fit into the C1 category when looking at his social class. Overall, he is a mainstreamer.

He is the kind of guy who enjoys going out with friends to their local Pub, but would also like to sit around and play Video Games. Studied Media Studies at College and passed with a B having a knowledge of the subject. Used to Microvwave dinners to save time cooking, generally laid back and lazy person.

From doing this exercise, I've now got a better idea at the kind of person that I am aiming the chosen trailer at. This lets me know their interests in the film, best places to advertise when pinpointing this certain group and what they would want in the trailer in ways of Gore.

Shooting schedule







Roughcut of Butchered

Feedback on roughcut trailer

Our group showed a rough cut for our butchered trailer to the rest of the class today, who gave us their feedback with an overall score, the feedback was mostly good and most people liked the music (X8), makeup(X9) and titles(X3) however most people agreed that there needed to be more gore(X6) and it also need to be longer(X10) because at the moment it only lasts about forty seconds when it should last about a minute. The length of the trailer is our main problem so we need more filming days, it can be hard to find a day where everyone is free and we need more people for actors too which can be difficult to find. Our next main problem is gore, we need more of it, there are loads of effects we could use but the time it takes to do these effects is too long. But this does not mean that we will not do gore effects, it will happen. The trailer as it Is at the moment scored one five, six sixes, four sevens and two eights, Our style of trailer may not appeal to your everyday audience which may be part of the reasons for the scores however there is no doubt that improvements need to be made.

Trailer Poster

 

 

This is the finished poster for my groups trailer 'Butchered' i got the idea from the cover art of the first 'Max Payne' game because it shares a similar style as it is black and white. Some posters from Quentin Tarintino come to mind as well because he has used silouettes and outlines in some of his work e.g. Kill Bill.

Mood board

 

This mood board was made to get ideas for the sort of things we would like to include in our horror trailer including gore effects, style and mise en scene.

Trailer Roughcut Feedback

Our group showed a rough cut for our butchered trailer to the rest of the class today, who gave us their feedback with an overall score, the feedback was mostly good and most people liked the music (X8), makeup(X9) and titles(X3) however most people agreed that there needed to be more gore(X6) and it also need to be longer(X10) because at the moment it only lasts about forty seconds when it should last about a minute. The length of the trailer is our main problem so we need more filming days, it can be hard to find a day where everyone is free and we need more people for actors too which can be difficult to find. Our next main problem is gore, we need more of it, there are loads of effects we could use but the time it takes to do these effects is too long. But this does not mean that we will not do gore effects, it will happen. The trailer as it Is at the moment scored one five, six sixes, four sevens and two eights, Our style of trailer may not appeal to your everyday audience which may be part of the reasons for the scores however there is no doubt that improvements need to be made.

Shotlist

Health and Safety

Prop List