Taglines

Existing tag lines:

"whats a little murder between friends?" Shallow Grave

"before you die you see.. The Ring" The Ring

"you have been warned" The Omen

"fear moves in" The Uninvited

"experience fear" Rec

"who will survive and what will be left of them?" Texas Chainsaw Massacre

"possession knows no bounds" An American Haunting

"the girl next door isn't there anymore" The Cellar Door

"you won't believe how it ends" Saw V

"how much blood would you shed to stay alive?" Saw

"the ultimate in alien terror" The Thing

The popular theme for the tagline is to focus on the fear that the film is supposed to make the audience feel, also this doesnt give anything away about the plotline which leaves the audience in suspense.

Film Poster

After looking at horror movie posters it is obvious that it is the norm for the majority of the poster to be black with few other colours, often white or red. The imagery must be intriguing and distorted to make you want to find out more about the film.

Film posters in general are designed to advertise the film, therefore persuading the public that they want to pay to watch the film. The poster includes the logo of the film, a persuasive tagline, possible names of actors or directors and release date. The image on the poster has to portray the theme of the film or a particular scene.

Our idea for the movie poster is to use layers of photography with different elements of the plot and images from the trailer. The background will be black and we will experiment with different colour schemes. We want the title to be distorted but obviously it still needs to be legible.

Magazine cover

A typical film magazine front cover always has a person on the front, almost always the main character of the film, in character and often with props. As our trailer doesn't introduce a main character fully, we want the front cover of the magazine to only suggest a main character. Our initial idea is to take a photograph of a girl concealed mostly by dark make-up and hair with very low lighting so only some features are seen, inspired by the use of chiaroscuro and shadows in film noir, where the unknown makes the audience intrigued.

Film Title

We have deciced that because our trailer isnt going to give away much about the storyline or characters, our film title should be quite vague. Therefore we have decided we want to name our film a street name, which is supposed to be the street the house which the whole film takes places is on. Our shortlisted names were The Close and The Chase. We couldn't decide so we did some audience research.

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