How does it communicate and appeal to your chosen target audience?

The target audiences for the trailer greatly appeal to hte choosen audience because it contains suspense, tension and confusion we is what todays society requies from thrilers.

Whilst, doing my research investigation, I have found that if the trialer does not met the audiences expectitions then that would result in the film being a flop. Due to the absences of the conventions of the trailers that are required by audiences, thereofe, expectitions are not met, needs are not fufilled. The film is rejected.

By knowing the great importance that is placed upon the conventions of a genre, in this case in a thriller. To make sure that our trailer does communicate and appeal to our choosen audience, we tried to include all the conventions of a thriller. Having studied thrillers to a great amount, the thrilelr convention that I found are of importance and have included in the trailer include:

Setiings- Are usually safe and secure, but where extradrdinary events take place.
Starting is set in a college. other setting is park, both safe places, which becomes 'unsafe' place by the end of the trailer.

An enigma or secret at the heart of the narrative, which must be explained = In the trailer the secrecy of who the murderer is kept a secret, not revealed.

Phsychological= The protagnist is siplayed to confuse audiences and to question his mentailty.

Therefore, by including these convention, the targeted audiences will be greatly attracted.

Evalution:

Weaknesse also includes, not being properly organised and looking and checking out the trailer together as a group,and not discussing it.

Due to this, we are now towards the end of the trailer, but we are still muddled up on the footages. Before we decided to use the voices of characters and the voice over, in the trailer. However, whilst watching it with Sarah we now have decided to not use the voices, and even have deleted Micheals and Sam's voice over.

This has shown me that lack the abilltiy of having the bond as a group to go over things. If I was to do this again I would make sure that as a group we would fo through the footages and experiment variety things.

As we now are running out of time to experiment and mix the scenes up to convey rhe disequillibrium aspect of the trailer. This is something that I was really hoping to achieve within the trailr. Therefore we are now hoping to achieve this in our free time.

These are the other two trailers that I investigated in my research investigation:

How does your trailer compare to a real media text? (be specific)

I think that my trailer compares to a real trailer in many ways like the disequllibrium aspect of the trailer conveys the intrigiung and empahsises the confusion, tension that many trailers display to the audiences.

I feel that the storyline is very similar to other media texts, like there are many trailers that consist of similar stories, with a murder being dispalyed
and rhe audiences being kept in the dark about who the murderer is.
This kind of media text creates suspense and confusion which is solved whilst watching the film. Therefore, my trailer also hides the killer, and the killer is not revealed. This kind of films tend to be thrillers. As I have found out within my individual investigation, the genre is also a thriller. Afterschool, Disturbia and Brick are all thrillers.

From my research investigation I found that:
Similar to my trailer, Afterschool and Disturbia's trailer also consist of a murder, where the killer is not revealed, also present in my trailer.

However, in contrast Brick contains a crime investigation where the murder is not presented. Therefore, despite all three being thrillers, including my trailer consisits of the same genre. However have differences as well as similarties.

Whilst doing my trailer, I realized that the two trailers that I had invesigated in my research, Afterschool and Disturbia are very similar to my trailler.

For example: The starting of these two trailers and my trailer all start in a normal, safe envirnment.

My trailer= In a college, students see a "film club" poster and are excited over it, conveying normality.

Afterschool = Also starts in a school, presenting the protagnist in school. Normality presented with the iconography of the school bell, school uniforms and classrooms.

Disturbia = Starting is in a neighbourhood, displaying the normality of the young in his teens protagnist who is presented as a normal guy.

All three show safe, normal settings whhere 'unsafe' things accur.

RESEARCH INVESTIGATION:

Whilst, doing the research investigation I gained lots of new knowlodge about genres and thrilers. Therefore, basing our trailer on thriller, due to having researched and studied it before.

Doing the research investigation, I done academic research from the interenet and libary books. Therefore, recieving new knowlodge within genre, particularly thrillers. This made me more aware of in depth genre theory.

I learnt that theorists such as Stam, Altman and Steiger all have similar beliefs, but express their views and opinions in different ways.

New genre concepts: Sub- genre, and hybrids.

WHAT IS LEFT TO DO:

We have overcome the most difficut aspect of the traielr, the EDITING.

However, we still have to do the mixture of the footages.

We were suppose to do this in lesson on Thurs, but could not becacause Raza had a open day and therefore me and Hina could not contunie to do the editing, not having his password.

Me and Hina done our best to try and get in contact with him, but could not so we decided that we will do it on Friday.

Friday; not having a media lesson on this day, I tried to find Raza all day in my free time, but was not successful.

I then decided to go to Sarah and tell her, she then told me that we can complete it on Monday's lesson after the half term.

This was not good as I wanted a lot of time to do this to try various mixture of shots to see how it would look.

So if we were to do this, I would be more organised and more firm in what I say.
As I did ask Raza on Wed, the day before he went to his open day to give me his password, but was not on his case for it the way I should have been.

DECISIONS WITHIN THE TRAILER:

Decisions:
The decision to make our film high concept, high budget American film or an Independent film, Art Film was a bit difficult as we did not know what road to follow. However, we decided to go with an Independent film, as we did not want the "wow" factor with lots of different things that would intrigue the audience and be colourful and eye catching, with each footage being intriguing. Also Afterschool is an independent film, therefore we wanted to go for that kind of look.