Scream 4

The trailer I watched was Scream 4 which was directred by Wes Craven.

• The film starts with a phone call and you see the main character (Cindy) from the other Scream films. Then you hear the killers voice which is easily identified as the killers voice from the other films. The voice is also very deep & menacing so that the audience can tell that he is the killer.




• After that there are shots of all the main characters in the film all looking very scared/shocked. This suggests that the film is going to be a horror/thriller because people link a scared/shocked look with that genre.




• The is also white and red writing on a black background. The black backgound suggests that the film is dark & scary while the red suggests blood and that there will be a lot of gore in the film. Gore is also another convention people associate with a horror film.
  



• Later on in the trailer there are flashes of people running and climbing scared of something, this is also a convention of the horror genre.
  
  
  
  This is the poster to Scream 4
  




• As you can see the 4 is in red and is meant to represent the A. Also the 4 is the colour red which may resemble blood. This indicates to the audience that blood and gore will be involved within the film.





• The black background suggests a dark feel to the film. The background may make the audience think that there is an unknowing of things which could be the man in the mask identity, who he is and what role he will play in the film.





• The iconic mask of the killer immediatly shows the audience what the film is going to be about and the possible cast. This would only apply to the people who have seen the 3 previous Scream movies. If a person had never seen these movies before then it would create an enigma by getting the audience to wonder who is behind the mask.





• Also the the release date is linked to film since it was out on the 4th month of the year. This is a promotion tactic to lure audiences to see it because of the link.

References
2011 - Scream 4 - Wes Craven
Poster picture from: movienewz.com

Plot Idea

We gathered as a group to discuss our ideas on what our trailer should be like. We discussed the genre and contents of the trailer plus a plot for the film as a whole.

We came to the conclusion that we wanted to do a Christmas Horror that seemed like a fairytale. We wanted to make it feel dark and used 'Pans Labyrinth' as our base for the fairytale look of the film. The main film we will be looking at will be 'Black Christmas' as it is very similar to our idea.

We decided to call our film 'Silent Night', we thought this was a very good idea because it doesn't make the genre obvious to the audience, it also relates to the Christmas theme we wanted.

We discussed the narrative, we decided to have the trailer mainly as a child being told a story by his/her older brother/sister. We thought that having children as the victims would give the narrative a very dark feel to it. The idea behind the killer is that he is crazy and comes out every Christmas to go on a killing spree due to a bad even that had happened previously.

Group!

Our group consists of me, Levina, Sameena and Tom. We will now be working on our idea for our trailer.

First Things First

We have tried to sort out what groups we are going to be in, we have had no luck yet. We are now going to try sort out who will be going with who.