Horror movie trailer

Main task - Horror movie trailer.
This is my finished main task for my coursework. I feel that this has been successful for me and am happy with the trailer I made and feel as though I have achieved the goal I wanted in the process of making this trailer, which was to create a scary vibe, making my trailer as frightening as possible, however not giving too much of the storyline away, just the basics that my audience need to know to get familiar with what happens in the movie.

One problem that had, was that the scenes in my trailer were too long and there wasn't much rhythm or fast pace involved, which is a important part of a trailer, especially if you want to create a frightening vibe. Because my trailer wasn't quite frightening and gave too much of the storyline, I decided to cut down a lot of it and, even though I wanted to use all of the scenes I filmed, I did actually only used a few and really cut them down and mixed them up throughout my trailer, for example, the final girl in the beginning of the trailer speaks to the camera, then there will be a cut to another scene, then back to the girl talking to the camera. I feel that by doing this, it creates more of a successful and a more realistic horror trailer. This is because it is keeping the trailer short, in a fast pace and not giving too much away to the audience, which would spoil the movie for them. My plan of action was, just to give them a feel of the movie and really want more.

I also had a bit of a problem with the title of the movie, as I wasn't quite sure what to call it. I knew it had to be relevant to the storyline, but really couldn't make a decision, so I got my audience involved. I made a chart of the four possible title I came up with, one being 'INVASION', and the others 'TRAPPED, THE ATTACK, ZOMBIE AT SCHOOL'. They all agreed that 'ZOMBIE AT SCHOOL' was the most relevant and would fit best with the storyline, however they all thought that it wasn't a really scary title and thought that it made the movie sound more like a parody. Most of them voted on 'INVASION' as they thought it had a edge on the others and gave a more scary touch to it and was quite relevant and fitted the storyline really well. So in the end I overcame the problem I was having, by asking my audience for their opinion and giving them a say in important decisions such as the title.

Overall, I am quite happy with the way that the main task turned out and feel that I have made a quite frightening and successful movie trailer. I stuck to most conventions, making the trailer look more realistic and professional. A few of the conventions I stuck with included: credits, sound bridge, final girl, a killer creature etc.