Evaluation 1

My Horror trailer Ring Rosie fits the horror genre with the use of gore and body horror, I tried to make it seem as realistic as possible and added many bruises over the scars. I also used quick shots and had a variety of different shots – especially close-ups to create drama – to maximise the emotional effect. As well as this the parallel music I used was very intense and it put people on edge, creating the feel of an action packed gory horror.

  

Thomas Schatz wrote the importance of genre which he talked about how the genre of a film makes the most money; a horror film fits with horror fans and therefor makes more money. The use of feminism can bring in more of a crowd. Dawn of the Dead (2004) inspired me the most with the use of fast-paced zombies (seen in the above screenshot) however the TV series Walking Dead especially inspired me with the amount of special effects I could use. An example of a special effect from the series is in the first season when a zombie in the well gets ripped in half it showed amazing body horror and looked very believable. Both have an interesting narrative and bring in many different audiences judging by the amount of lovers for zombie based films and TV series.  There are 15.7 million viewers who watch the Walking Dead which sows it’s a very popular show on TV.
 

I used archetypes with the “final girl” and the “female victim” this shows a view of feminism with two girls fighting rather than being saved by the “male hero”. In my horror trailer I also used conventional mise-en-scene with the use of props and costumes and plenty of non-diegetic (soundtrack) and diegetic sound (sound fx).

Pacing was important to create using collision cutting. This caused it to do quiet to loud then quiet and loud right at the end for a jump scare. This all created suspense and jump scares. As well I added a slow build up which included a show of the main characters going to the graveyard and you can see their friendship and it builds more and more with the zombies overcrowding and Rosie’s friend dying; this added more tension.

  

With Ring Rosie, I wanted to recreate the style of the World War Z Trailer as it uses collision cutting and goes from a happy family to running away from zombies. Even though I do not like the film the feel of the trailer really inspired me to make a zombie trailer myself.

The Auteur who inspired me to bring into my trailer was Frank Darabont, the original director and producer of The Walking Dead. Even though this is a TV series this still inspires me as the atmosphere and the amount of jump scares/body horror just typifies the “zombie” horror sub-genre.

What makes my trailer distinctive from other trailers is the feminism and the archetypes which make up the film, instead of using the same male hero and the main protagonist the fact the final girl is the hero really changes the stereotype that women can’t be tough.

The distinctive thing about my trailer is the editing. We cross-cut and use the same clips a few times to create suspense while also making it a flashback in a trailer. The fact while the music is quite slow and builds up in this intense why it adds suspense. The song fits perfectly with the mood of zombies as it talks about the black plague (“A Tissue, A Tissue, We All Fall Down”) as well as it fits in the title which gives us a strong edge.

My film in my opinion reflected it’s historical (institutional – this means zombies are popular in the media industry at the moment. Historical would mean there are zombies in the real-life context of 2015) content with zombies. Zombies were meant to be slow and followed in groups and that’s what I showed. I would have preferred there be more zombies however the whole class helped and we gathered 14 zombies at one time, which made an impact of the character feeling trapped. The thing I changed was the stereotypes of women being protected; as this was an all-girl cast and production crew it showed the main character Rosie being good with a gun and become a final girl.