Personal Diary Entry

Over the past few weeks I have completed all of my individual research and planning on my trailer such as my three horror trailer analysis', the reason I have done this is so that I have a good idea of how a horror trailer should be and what common conventions it should include. This research has helped me a great deal as I now have a great understanding of what my horror trailer should look like.

I have also completed individual research on trailers (purpose, functions, ect.), this has helped me in finding out why we need a trailer to promote our film and how to market it effectively. As a group we feel that the narrative we came up with originally was much too complicated to carry out realistically but I still did lots of planning on the original narrative ti make sure that I could compare both ideas. In the end we all decided that the new narrative is much more effective because it is simpler than our original idea therefore I am happy that we decided to go along with making this trailer. My original planning is shown in my blog as I have added the original proposal of ideas, narrative structure, mood board and character analysis. Although we have changed it we have kept some elements the same such as the scary doll, ect.

I have independently analysed my target audience and as a group we will be making our trailer based on what they would want to see because this will attract them to watch our film.I have finished the location recess and a visit sheet as I have visited the locations that we will be filming in so that I have an idea of how effective the setting will be. I have completed my mood board, the reason for my mood board is to show the type of atmosphere/mood that I want my trailer to have. Our narrative structure is also completed now and the reason for having a narrative structure is so that our plot is clear for us to follow and make a storyboard out of which will ultimately help us make our trailer in a professional and organised way. The final thing I have completed is my character analysis which is to make sure our characters are represented in the way that they are meant to be, the character analysis will help us follow our character's images e.g. following the dress code shown in the analysis and also the personalities of characters so that when we are filming we know exactly what each character should be like. 

Now our group are all ready to move onto the next step which is planning our filming and starting to shoot our trailer, Sarah and I will be actresses in the trailer and Sarah, Gagan and I will all have a chance to film different scenes and shots in the trailer.