To begin awnsering the evaluation question I decided I would record a directors narrative on top of my film trailer and create a new video, this narrative would highlight areas where we have developed, adhered and challanged popular conventions of the horror genre.
The video of my directors narative can be seen below:
To continue awnsering the evaluation question in more detail I designed a presentation on prezi which can be seen below:
I will now look at how the 'sounds' used in our trailer relate to the conventions of the horror genre, below I have posted a recording of the soundtrack to our trailer.
During our research into the horror genre we realised many things, firstly many horror film trailers like 'Scream' included voice overs that helped explain the storyline and build excitment, at first we didn't want our trailer to have a voiceover, however during production we decided that it was needed to help viewers understand what was going on. We decided to challange the stereotypical voice over of an american man shouting over the film and instead used a soft diary like voiceover from our main character Clarissa. The sound effects we used in our trailer adhere to conventions of the horror genre as they are exactly what you would expect to hear in a horror film, for example - the howling wind sound effect is heard in almost all horror films. We decided to use these stereotypical horror sound effects as we wanted them to help express the genre of the film and build up tension.
Most films/trailers in the horror genre do not have sound tracks, we decided to challange this convention and used the non copyrighted song 'Help Me - Awate' in our trailer. This song helps generate excitment and suspence in our trailer, and also the song helps attract our target audience.
Overall the sounds used in our trailer for The Possession stereotypically express the horror genre of our film, however our trailer is given the urban edge from our use of the sondtrack, which makes it stand out as unique.
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