Theatrical Trailer

The Asylum, theatrical trailer:

Theatrical Trailer on going analysis

Our Trailer



For our trailer shoot we didn't find anything to difficult whilst we were filming. As we had planned previously on what we needed for the trailer (the lab coat) all we had to do was get a number of different shots of the patient walking through the corridor. Though there is little we knew that we were going to include alot of
editing e.g the newspapers and sound to add tension to our trailer.


We used shots like this to provide the mise en scene that the film is set in a mental hospital

Well also used medium shots to provide narrative enigma to hide the patient. We sustained this narrative enigma through out our trailer




As we followed our storyboard it wasn't difficult to film all the shots as we got all the filming done in under an hour.

Teaser Trailer Planning

Synopsis: 
The trailer opens in 1991 with media reportage of a criminally insane patient escaping from an asylum. It therefore ends in the present with the killer on the loose, atmospheric, unsetlling music and FX will be a key feature of the trailer, which we sustain a degree of narrative enigma.

Time:
We plan on filming the footage for our trailer on the 8th of february. We aim to shoot all of our footage in 1 hour however if this isn't enough time we will further plan on another date.



Newspapers

Example of a newspaper we edited

What we had planned to include  in the trailer form the start, was the newspapers we were using this method to create a sense of realism for the audience. However, to do so we had to edit all the text included in recent articles and incl;ude our own images all of which wre form the courtesy of google images.

Another style of editing we used was an old effect to make the newspapers look aged, this was used for our preffered reading of the trailer to signify that HighRoyds is an extremely scary lunatic asylum and to connotate the trime era that the trailer is set in (1991).

Example edited newspaper

The picture in the bottom newspaper is a legitimate photo of the doctors who used to operate in HighRoyds this also creates a sense of realism.

These are the newspapers we intend to put in our film opening however it is dependent on our audience feedback. We hope it will achieve our preferred reading.

Pictures:

We had planned on using pictures of past patients and also shots of the asylum for the trailer
The picture to the right is a patient who was admitted to HighRoyds asylum in 1982

Example of a newspaper we edited

This is the shot we plan on using at the start of the trailer - the establishing shot. This will connote to the audience where the trailer and the opening will be set.

This shot is from the inside of the asylum we plan on using an affect to this picture as it was recently taken, which doesn't give it an authentic feel like the others do. This is something we can't ignore in our trailer because we don't want to have an oppositional reading.

Again this is an old picture from 1981 of the patients we will be using.

Editing:

The programme we used was sony vegas, what we are planning to do is test the effects and audio  we plan to test a number of different effects to see which one signifies previous time the best, we did this before we made the trailer for organisational purposes so we could include more time into creating the trailer.

Sony Vegas

This is the titles in Adobe After Effects, we used a background with a time lapse of clouds with a dark effect added which signifies horror. We also used a san serif font to connote a slasher film and we also used a stutter affect for the title to twitch out which signifies something isn't right.

Adobe After Effects

We intend on using footage from our trailer in our actual film, depending on our feedback from our trailer we will make a reasoned decision to whether some effects or scenes will be included in our opening. This is because we feel that it will provide the correct exposition to our audience effectively, as we plan it will do in our trailer. 

Treatment

Our treatment for The Asylum:

This is our treatment created for the purpose of defining our planned film Asylum. All the information for the film is included in our treatment. The films we are referring to are Mad House and Silent House we are going to include references to these films in our opening which will also help us to define that our film is in the slasher genre depending on the conventions we will be using, whether they are similar to previous films or our own.  

The Big 6 and Intergration

The Big Six

Are the 6 main world wide productions companies who produce and distribute films. A sub company owned by a bigger company is called a conglomerate company in other words is an indie production company. An example of this is NBC Universal. 20th Century Fox and is a Subsidiary also Working Titlke is one aswell which means that they are owned by a major company but fund their own .money and produce their own films.

However there are 7 on this photo lions gate are still not considered as one of them however being on this screen shot.

Horizontal Intergration is when all the different media companies benefit each other by advertising each other in their media work.

Vertical Intergration is where one conglomerate company does all three processes of film making, Production, Distribution and Exhibition.

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