Firstly we will begin with an intertitle to compliment the narrative in our second shot which was “stranded in the middle of nowhere. This was important as we have seen similar techniques used at the start of other thriller trailers as it builds suspense from the offset. This is because the combination of “stranded”(which makes the characters appear vulnerable) and “in the middle of nowhere” (incorporates the factor of an isolated environment which during our research of what makes something scary was a major factor) makes the audience feel on edge from the outset and also captures their attention which is the most important factor to engage the audience for a short teaser trailer like ours.
Secondly we decided to incorporate a generic convention of the genre which was “from the producers of Karma and Rose”. These are two films that we have already previously made and this was important to convey to our audience as it shows we have experience in film making and portrays a professional film. This is also a feature we found in “Annabelle” and we wanted to conform to this convention as we felt it worked well in their film trailer.
Our third intertitle will be “in the fight for survival”. This is because we have planned for an intertitle to be here which will be just before our montage of quick cuts to create adrenaline for the audience. The ‘fight for survival’ is important because it engages the audience prior to the montage which further emphasises the danger for the characters in the trailer, further creating added adrenaline.
Our last intertitle will be “they must fight back” which is a short and snappy phrase as it allows the audience to read it quickly without losing interest of the trailer which could happen with longer intertitles, an element we have seen in other thriller-horrors like 1408. We also used to word” fight back” as it insinuates a physical battle between good and evil in the film which further incorporates danger which is a main convention for thriller-horror films.
Making our intertitles:
Firstly we felt it was important to find a background for our intertitle that conveyed an element of the thriller-horror genre that our film is, rather than simply using a generic one of the editing software we are using. To do this I searched on google for horror intertitles and I found the background below. I decided to use this one as it is dark like most of the lighting in our film as this is a generic mise-en-scene element for a thriller-horror film.
Once I found this image I was to make it unique to our own film rather than it simply being a generic thriller-horror background. To do this I used Photoshop to combine a shot of the barn which we took whilst filming, which play a major role in our film and the image I found online. I put the two images on a Photoshop document in two different layers as seen below. I then dragged the image of the barn over the top of the intertitle background which made the background disappear. To the combine these two images together I changed the opacity as seen below to 30%, which meant you can see the barn whilst also maintaining the intertitle background. This once again incorporated this element of isolation and further to this the feature of the barn in the woods is something we have seen in other horrors such as “cabin in the woods” and “wrong turn” so it is a generic feature that is also specific to our own film.
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