#8 Evaluation codes and conventions

How is sci-fi and the horror genre presented in our media film trailer?

In the first few seconds of our film trailer sci-fi is automatically known with the special effected that we used, we have mechanical aliens invading outside houses, we also have UFOs sending spaceships out, these are indicators for the sci-fi genre this is because of how common they are used in sci-fi films, the target audience for our film is mainly young adults mainly males, we also have horror  in our film this is shown with the villian zombies in our film, we have tried our best to make them as realistic as possible so that it would link to our horror genre it can also link to our sci-fi genre because zombies are made up.

Our magazine and poster also has features that would link to our horror and sci-fi genre, like the massive bold blue text in our poster, in sci-fi posters we see a lot of common colours mainly light and dark blues which we were inspired by.

Magazine analysis

In the design phase of the magazine we wanted to give hints to our audience, a way to do this is adding some quotes and key information about our film trailer that might of not be included, like "Zombies takeover the world" this quote automatically makes our audience think our film is a horror because of the zombies. We decided that our magazine would be priced £5.99 because we thought this was a great price to pay its cheap and not very expensive. We did some research on what is included in magazines and we tried our best to recreate little features that other film magazines would include.

#7 Evaluation Poster and magazine

Poster

In our poster and magazine we needed to have big bold text this is because this shows the importance for our film trailer, our magazine and poster have been cut down to keep the story of our film trailer as minimal as possible, this is because if the audience wants to find out more they can go and purchase the film, we needed to give our audience some sort of idea on what our film is about, we did this by putting the villain as our main subject for our poster and magazine, we have the villain who is a zombie this could make our audience think why is the villain on the poster, magazine and not the hero and sidekick, this could make them think that there isn't a happy ending.
In our poster we have the main characters in our film trailer right under the villains face, they are also spreaded out which  could make it look like they are the opposites which they are as Tom is the hero and Carlos (me) is the villain.
in the design for the magazine, we have included more information, this is because of how magazines include multiple different films and information compared to the poster where its only about our film and nothing else, while the magazine could have other films in it as well.

#6 Evaluation significant moments in our film

Significant moments

I think this is a good starting scene for our trailer, this is because it tells the audience straight away that out film trailer is a sci-fi genre, the audience can also guess its a horror film, because of how creepy and scary the mechanical alien looks like, this scene might as confuse our audience because they might be wondering why is there an alien attacking, since this isn't our equilibrium, we decided that we start right after. this scene makes our film a trailer because it is giving a small idea of who the villain is in our film

I decided to take this scene because of how creepy and scary the statue looks at night, we decided to have this statue shown in our film trailer only a few seconds, this is also because we wanted to provide to our audience what else our film has in store which is horror, we can also link this to a TV show "Doctor who" this is because of how it links to our sci-fi and horror genre, in Doctor Who there is weeping angles which is futuristic  because the weeping angles are statue that are alive and moving, they only move when it becomes dark they can move.

This shot is very important as it easily shows that it is sci-fi related this is because of how its a UFO, UFO's would be linked to sci-fi and sometimes horror this is because of the stereotypes that come with UFO's and Aliens, in this scene it can make the audience think there is multiple and unique different aliens and suggests that the film is a sci-fi, this also gives out unanswered questions to the audience like where did the aliens come from?, why are they attacking? this could make the audience want to find out more about our film trailer.

In this scene we see our hero and sidekick running away this could suggest this is the start of the film and make our audience think how does the hero and sidekick fight back, how do they find out what situation they are in, in this scene they are running away from the villain or villains as there is multiple of them in our film, since we decided to have zombies as our villain, they multiply, which this scene is trying to employ. 

I think this scene was very effective because of this gives multiple different questions unanswered by our film trailer to the audience, like who is this and why is he cowering in the corner? what happened to him? some of these questions are answered near the end of the film trailer, where we see this character turn into the villain of our film, zombies.

In this scene it suggests that the hero in our film trailer has realized what he needs to do and has started to fight off the zombies, this links to our horror genre, because he is attacking the zombie, and it links to horrors because of blood and gore that is shown in this scene. I could link this scene to one of a scene from the walking dead, they have realistic looking zombies and blood and gore, they have scenes where they slice and stab zombies with knifes which we were inspired by.

This scene is similer to the one before but instead of the zombie getting attacked, the zombie is attacking a random person in our film,we had to use the same character for our zombies characters this is because of the lack of people we needed for scenes, this could make the audience feel like this was a badly done scene, we could of improved this scene by trying to have more unique zombie characters in our film.

This scene is very important aswell as it confuses the audience because they dont know what is happening and dont know if this is the start of the zombies invasion or it is at the end of the zombie invasion, we tried to make it the end of the zombie invasion we did this by putting this right at the end of our film trailer.

In this scene we have our hero of our film trailer expressing his emotions, this is important because it shows development, in this scene the hero is scared and crying, later into the film trailer we see our hero again but this time he is expressing his emotions filled with anger this is shown with his face expressions, we also planned this scene to be in the dark, which could suggest he is hiding from everything around him.

In this shot it shows the special effects we have used which we used is a helicopter crash, to create this scene we started by recording the scenery which we took from a park, we recorded for like 10 seconds long and then we got out the editing software out which we used adobe premier elements. this scene also makes our film professional and authentic.

This is our first time showing our villain in our film while not being transformed into a zombie, he has a scary and creepy atmosphere,and the head slightly tilted also makes the audience feel uncomfortable and feel a little bit uneasy. this scene can make our audience automatically know this character is the villain.

In this scene our main focus was to scary the audience, we wanted to do this because we wanted to focus mainly to attract meature horror fans, this can also make the audience feel uneasy with the villain stearing down at the camera, which could make it feel like the villain actually knows you are watching.

#5 Evaluation Institution Analysis

Institution analysis

 In our film trailer we have two different production companies each having unique aspects to them, Horse motion was made very simple using a non copyrighted horse in 3 different unique animations to make it look like its moving in one spot, We used adobe premiere to create Horse motion, it was very easy to edit in Adobe as it gave us simple drag and drop sections and easy to trip the pictures into very small seconds

In finite films we used a completely different approach to creating this production company, we want to create a unique production but also having some similarities to 21st century fox production company, but we changed it to suit our needs for our film trailer and made it a little bit different so that it wasnt copyrighted, we decided to make this using the modeling tool Blender, blender was extremely useful as we could use templates that was copyright free and easy to use for our film all we needed to do is change the titles to suit our new production company animation "Infinite Films", blender was usually used to create models but blender also has an animation section where you could create films using its special effects.

#4 Evaluation Narrative

How is narrative established?

We have used different unique ways to show the narrative in our film trailer, we mainly focused on the sci-fi genre, this is because of how prevalent it is in our film trailer, in the picture we have a UFO which links to sci-fi because of how fictional it is and how it is usually linked to futuristic space themes, we also have robotic aliens which also conforms to the sci-fi genre, also having these green screen sci-fi effects makes it easier for the audience to know what kind of film we are trying to create.

We also have some other green screen special effects that gives a little in sight of what our film also includes, we have a helicopter crash which is sometimes linked to action but we decided to try to link it to our other genre horror, we tried our best to make it look like zombies have been on the helicopter and have destroyed it, making it crash


We needed to give our audience some in sight on how did the zombies arrived on earth and how did aliens space ships arrived, so we decided to add a nuclear explosion at the end of our film trailer this is good because it makes the audience guess whats happening and they could think this was at the start of the film where things looked normal until zombies and aliens started invading earth.

#3 Evaluation - How has your trailer title shown its conventions?

We firstly did some in depth research on titles linking to our genre conventions and we have came up with multiple titles but we all agreed that "Carnage" would be our film title, we decided this because of how Carnage sounds like a lot of destruction and rampage, we also decided to go for carnage as it gave the audience an idea of how our film is going to go, "Carnage" sounds like an action packed film with in depth story, I think carnage can link to the zombies in our film this is because of how destructive the zombies can be in the film trailer.
We also decided to go a simple as possible to not show to much to the audience, this is good as it can make the audience keep thinking and wondering what is going to happen, but this scene is at the end of the trailer, which means the audience already understands whats going to happen, but having a simple end screen can make them feel like something is still missing from the film trailer.