Bloodshed High Pitch

To really understand the key conventions of trailers our class split up into pairs and we each came up with a trailer for a film called Bloodshed high.

We first discussed initial ideas about what our film should be about and coming up with a basic story line. Our discussion included:

• Coming up with an unique selling point.
• Relevant actors and directors 
• Most important features. 
• How our trailer would look (creating a story board)

What we learnt from doing this was that trailers are extremely important in the promotion of films. That they must include a basic outline of the story with out giving clues and plot lines away.

Trailers are designed to excite us as the general public and keep us on the edge of our seats, and in the case of horror films, to frighten us into running off to the cinema to see the latest horror. We learnt how to engage the audience through camera angles and thinking about the style of music to use at different points i the trailer. This leads to the realisation that the production is vital. Nobody wants to go to the cinema expecting a hair raising horror and find themselves disappointed by the production of the film.