Zombie Questionnaire

As a group, we are not sure as to how to create the trailer fully. We have chosen our genre of a zombie/horror film. The thing that we are stuck on is how much zombie we should actually have within the film's trailer. We need to make it clear that it is a zombie film to the audience, however we don't want to much zombie in it as it may look tacky and come off as a bit 'jokey' and may look like an amateur production. We used make up to create a zombie character and used a sort of CCTV looking footage to try and create an eerie scene, however this didn't work very well.

This footage, we felt wasn't good enough to be in our trailer. The problem with it is that it looked a bit boring and also the climax of the shots were supposed to be when the zombie showed his face to the screen and we were going to have this as a jump scare at the end of the trailer, due to our research in which this happens a lot. for example, it happens in films such as lights out and creates a long lasting, memorable impact on the audience.

How will we overcome this?
We are going to overcome this by eventually taking the shot out. We are going to leave it in for the first cut, in case it may grow on us. furthermore, we will leave it in for the first cut and get people opinion on it. 

We sent out an email to people in our year and also a few teachers. The idea of this was to gain feedback, whether it be positive or negative. The reason we chose both students and adults is due to our target market research audience. Our audience is people of the age of 18+, this was covered by the students in year 13 in Sixth form and also teachers would represent the upper bracket of our target audience (up to 35).

FEEDBACK:

Conclusion:

We are going to take this scene out in the 3rd cut and hopefully this improves the trailer and makes it more mysterious and less revealing.

Font decisions

This is one of the font that we have decided upon using for the title for our trailer 'Decay'. The reasons why we chose this font was mainly due to its shape and structure as the edges of the font seems to have faded almost as if it has decayed, this then ties in nicely with the fact that our film is called 'Decay'. Once we changed the font to red and added a black background we had a title that looked more like the generic horror movie titles. As our film has a sub-genre of 'zombie apocalypse' we thought that it was more important to change the colour of the font from black to red as this emphasises to the audiences that the colour red is hinting that our film is going to be gory and action packed.

After playing around with various other font choices we came across this font that automatically stood out to us as we felt like it was an improved version of the previous font choice we chose. The colour and the letters are more faded making it look more decayed than our previous title font. This then led to the decision to chose this as our font choice, we went on to use this same font for both the magazine cover and the movie poster.

Make up

Production Logo

Production Logo by Frank Kuofie on Scribd

Although we have thought long and hard into the steps we need to follow in order to make our production logo look as if it is representing a zombie horror movie, this is not our final design. We took our time when coming up with the design, making sure we followed the general codes and conventions and to make sure that it stands out. However, we did not spend that much time when it came to the executing the design onto paper. As a group we decided that we need to spend more time developing our existing logo so that we can make it not only look the same as those used within typical zombie horror movies but also so that it looks more presentable, because as it stands the logo does not look very professional and we would not include this logo within our work as we feel that we can design a more detailed better looking production logo.

Another Bloody Productions

This is the new and improved version of our production logo. However, this is not our final logo. We need to develop this one to make it stand out more and look more professional as at the moment it does not look like a final production logo. Also we had a discussion within our group and although we all decided upon this font and colour style we agreed that it needed to be developed further as it did not look detailed enough. 

Film concept

Propp

Casting Choice

Lighting Tests

Props

2nd draft Magazine

pulse by Frank AGHA-KUOFIE

1st Magazine Draft

Wardrobe selection

Moodboard

Location Report

Target audience

Flim Title

This is one of the font that we have decided upon using for the title for our trailer 'Decay'. The reasons why we chose this font was mainly due to its shape and structure as the edges of the font seems to have faded almost as if it has decayed, this then ties in nicely with the fact that our film is called 'Decay'. Once we changed the font to red and added a black background we had a title that looked more like the generic horror movie titles. As our film has a sub-genre of 'zombie apocalypse' we thought that it was more important to change the colour of the font from black to red as this emphasises to the audiences that the colour red is hinting that our film is going to be gory and action packed.

After playing around with various other font choices we came across this font that automatically stood out to us as we felt like it was an improved version of the previous font choice we chose. The colour and the letters are more faded making it look more decayed than our previous title font. This then led to the decision to chose this as our font choice, we went on to use this same font for both the magazine cover and the movie poster.