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Made by: Olek Nowacki
SPIDER-DIAGRAM
Whenever it comes to creating or gathering ideas, it is important to always start off by laying out the options that you already have. So to start off this task, I would have to first create a spider diagram with information about what is normally featured in horror movie teaser trailers and in horror genres as a whole.
The Spider-Diagram would also serve for me as a pathway to what is the most important to be showcased in a teaser trailer.
Unsettling
Dark and gloomy
Skin crawling
Ominous
Horror Teaser Trailers
Music
Unerving
Atmosphere
Calm/a sense of safety music
Sounds of the surroundings
(water taps, floor boards creaking)
Unknown area
Costumes
Covered in blod
Headwear that conceal identity
Sounds
Human created sounds
(Heartbeats, hand tapping)
Natural noises
(animal sounds, cricket sounds, leaves wailing)
QUESTIONNAIRE
To further learn about what to use in my horror movie teaser trailer, I will now need to gather information from other individuals. Doing this will allow me to see and understand what people have previously seen in horror movie teaser trailers, what do they not want to see and what they want to be done differently.
For this, I created a questionnaire which consisted of 6 questions, all relating on the horror movie teaser trailers. The questions were as followed:
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Have you seen any horror movie teaser trailers before?
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What horror movie teaser trailers have you seen before? (Please label in a bullet point format if possible)
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What do you often see the most in the horror movie teaser trailers (examples: atmospheres, character clothing, the main antagonist, etc.)
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What have you never seen before in a horror movie teaser trailer (examples: The identity of the villain not being instantly revealed, the setting of the teaser trailer being unknown, etc.)
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What do you reckon would make a horror movie teaser trailer better? (give out examples)
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What text styles do you often see in horror movie teaser trailers? (Please attach images of font styles/design from the movies)
As of the moment, around 5 different people have completed the form and returned it to me. Some of the answers contain a lot of detail and can definitely help me consider what to use in my teaser trailer. However, a lot of them that contained information can be helpful, however, the rest of the people that filled out the questionnaire either put in joke answers, did not fill out any of the boxes, or did not give a long answer.
Here are some of the answers that I have gathered:
1. Yes
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2. It chapter two.
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A quiet place: Day one.
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.Thanksgiving.
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.Halloween ends.
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.The Nun.
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Smile.
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Five Nights at Freddy's.
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Night swim.
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The visit.
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Some others but there the ones at the top of my mind.
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3. You often see very dark and atmospheric lighting, creating a moody feel .
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The main characters on about a threat or monster getting them during the trailer.
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The monster or identity after them mainly at the end of the trailer or the end depending how much they want to reveal.
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Intense and creepy music, sometimes a music box playing for example .An establishing shot of the main location of the film is taking place.
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A close up shot of a character nervous or scared.
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A jumpscare mainly at the end of the trailer when the music stops and you see the monster.
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A release date or a estimate of what season it comes like fall or summer.
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4. Often the end climax but some do depending on the film.
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Misleading the audience into to excepting something else.
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Barely showing anything about the film to keep it mysterious.
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No gore but it's so it can be shown in theatres at a suitable age range.
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5. Knowing what the film is about is what makes a trailer good but not revealing much, just enough to make the audience watch it having the setting, characters and the threat revealed but don't show it .
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It having a creepy astrosphere throughout (having atmospheric music nothing to intense)
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Make it misleading in the beginning showing something happy and the opening of the film.
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6. Images are attached below
Source: Fandom font pack 20 horror & scary movie fonts digital download - etsy UK. Fandom Font Pack 20 Horror & Scary Movie Fonts digital Download - Etsy UK. (n.d.). https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1153311440/fandom-font-pack-20-horror-scary-movie
Source: Seth. (2023, February 25). Horror movie fonts. Scary Movie School. https://sethmsherwood.substack.com/p/horror-movie-fonts
1. Yes
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2. 9
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3.Antagonist.
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4. The identity of the killer being instantly revealed.
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5. Darkness, foreboding, foreshadowing.
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6. No images were attached.
Possible Learning
Although it has been a couple of months since I began learning how to use editing software's, commercials and short videos, there are still some techniques that I might have to learn to make this Final Major Project feel well made.
Importing 3D models
In teaser trailers and movies, specifically in the horror genre, often create models of monsters or unearthly beings in a 3D modelling software and then they import them to their scenes and make them realistic. Because I am unable to obtain 1 asset, that being an old retro Television, I will have to find an already existing model, import it into either Premiere Pro, or After Effects and then add shadows and perfect the lighting to make the viewers believe that the Television tha they are seeing is real.
Making footage look old
In my teaser trailer, "He's Here", will contain clips of someone being in television. However, I cannot just crop the footage and simply adjust its shape. In order to make the television look believe, I will have to learn how to create television noise (a bunch of black and white pixels constantly switching places), change the footage's quality to make it look like it was recorded in the 1980's and change the colours of the footage to further convince the audience that the footage was not recorded in the modern period.
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