Title Font - RESEARCH

Here we have done research on our ideas and inspirations for our title and the font. The ideas on the left shows the ideas of titles which we got from other horror movies which include: The Exorcist, Silence of the Lambs, Annabelle, The Adams Family and Carrie; and two of these films have the name of there young girls character as the title. This is where we gained the inspiration of titling the film the name of our protagonist/antagonist - Robyn. The significance of this is that it has personal context and relation as it is the name of our actor. Also, if the young girl is going to be given the most prevalence, it is effective having her name as the title of our film. The research on the left also involves the font ideas. The key idea we have is to make it bold and to be prominent on a black screen and also when overlaying the beginning/end of our trailer. Alongside the film title inspirations that were just listed, there were many more font and presentation ideas that we thought would be effective in relating to our protagonist/antagonist.




The Ring:

One key idea for the font that we came across was from the trailer/film, The Ring. The significance of this title font is that as I personally think it looks quite childish, having no capital letters and also how the letters are very spaced out; potentially suggesting how the person may not be able to write. This would, however, have a clear link with our film as our protagonist/antagonist character is a young girl which we could clearly relate to the childlike font. As well as this, the obscure colours connote evil, death and darkness which are good connotations within a horror film as the aim is to scare the audience which those certainly will be prominent in doing so.


The Women in Black:

The ideas and inspiration from this film was primarily based around the fact that we are considering having an old women as our other protagonist/antagonist. The relation between this idea and The Women in Black is the ghost of a scorned women; which is slightly similar to the idea we had for our trailer. With that being the main reason for focusing on this film, we also gained inspiration on the title font which we hope to incorporate into our trailer. The kind of gothic, eerie, sketched look of The Women in Black title is effective with being prominent on the black background.

The Grudge:

Another inspiration was 'The Grudge'. This film is a horror and the story line is focused on an eerie looking girl who is presented as a curse throughout. Although this is not necessarily the case in our film, we thought that there was some relevance as our main character will primarily be a young girl. The design of this title is significant as the writing is bold on a dark background. The colour of the text has many negative connotations such as blood, pain, death, etc. By gaining all of these ideas from other films, we will be able to combine the key features of each title font to make ours prominent and effective up against the background.

Documenting of Influence on Production

Here we have documented our influences on production; where trying to find ideas and themes to use in our trailer, we have been influenced by multiple films. The first film that stood out to us was The Grudge. The ideas and themes that we gained from this were the idea of using a young girl as the antagonist. In the film, the young girl is represented as a curse and this is something we were considering and we thought was effective. This kind of idea is most effective in subverting the typical expectations of a young child; expecting them to be quite innocent and vulnerable, however in a horror, then being portrayed as evil. A creepy, young girl is quite conventional of a horror which is important as, despite wanting to make the trailer original, we want to use some conventional ideas/techniques. Children are simply innocent and the more they stray from that, the more frightening it becomes for us.

The second influence on our production was from the film, The Visit. The idea we gained from this was from having an elderly women as the main protagonist/antagonist in the film. This idea would be significantly effective through the fact that old people generally tend to be represented as sweet, innocent and vulnerable. Because of this typical representation of old people, if they were to be represented in the opposite light of that, in specifically our horror film, it is likely that the audience will be scared/shocked. 

The next film that we gained ideas from was Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. The first influence from this film was the ideas for clothing for our young female character. In this specific film, all of the young children are dressed in white gowns/nighties. Significantly this gives a kind of old fashioned, historical context with the kind of clothing all of them are actually wearing. Usually, it is likely that white gowns/nighties are associated with night clothing, however in the image above, it is clear that it is not night time; therefore giving the old fashioned context with that being the clothing in previous years. Another inspiration we gained from this film was the idea of creating a historical context through the use of gas masks. This is significant in associating with war, and therefore creating a historical context which is an eerie them to have in a horror.

Our final inspiration film was Orphan. The young girl who is the main character in the film, alike with that being the case in our trailer, is presented in old fashioned, Victorian style clothing; yet again creating a historical context. This was effective in influencing the key area of mis-en-scene which is significant to consider in all film. We also picked out the idea of the young girl being based around a park location and being on a swing; significant through the fact that a park tends to be a natural setting for a young child. In association with the swing, the eerie diegetic sounds of the creaking swing would be effective in our trailer with the sound being quite eerie.

Lighting Research

Three-point Lighting:

This is the most basic lighting set-up which consists of the...

• Key Light - this is the main light used on the subject and it is also the brightest light source for the shot.
• Fill Light - this is a softer light and the purpose of this light is to fill in the shadows created by the key light, preventing them from getting to dark, and lastly the 
• Back Light - this is used to separate the subject from the background. It enhances the sense of depth in the shot. Back-lighting often creates a halo effect around the characters head, particularly the edges.

Low-key lighting:

The low-key lighting gives more of a shadowy effect. This shadow created by the low-key lighting would be most effective and conventional in horror films.]

Four-point lighting:

Four-point lighting is the same as three-point however with the addition of background lighting. The background lighting is used to illuminate the background area of a set.

Top lighting:

Top lighting is another common lighting technique; this is when the upper areas of the subject or character are lit (outlined) by the source generating above it.

Under lighting:

Under lighting is the approach of lighting a subject/character from a point below them. This partially creates a kind-of spooky effect.

Research and Planning Targets

You have to evidence every stage of your journey and provide more analysis in your planning of things like sountrack and titles.  Evidence your time management and the journey to production as thoroughly as you can.

Trailer Ideas - Brainstorm