The whole idea of a horror is to see whats not there in real life and to see someone on screen where the violence against an evil thing is justified in a relatable situation. To make a film a horror you need to make a sense of tension, so for example people would rather there be an unknown rat than a known snake. Make sure you don’t show the object that is meant to be the horror effect more than 10-15 times before it finally scares you at the end of the film.  You need to make the audience ask them selves questions like ‘whats going to happen next?’

Also make the film relatable, this is good so the audience can put themselves in the characters shoes and then understand them and what they are trying to do, it then makes it easier for the audience to build an emotion. As well as making it relatable put a little bit of unrealism into the film as well. This is the most important bit of the film making, prepare the audience for a tense reveal of something or someone so you can make them feel for the character. You need to make them see an unrealistic thing to a realistic thing, for example a doll down human things.

Things to also consider whilst making a horror film is to make the scene dark, it creates more tension and scarier if its in the dark, add creepy, crawly things, for example snakes, spiders, rats these are scary enough on their own but when they touch people they become much scarier. Also set the scene in scary looking places, graveyards, old houses it is good to use these as these are the kind of places where evil things can hide.

The normal target audience for horror films are for 15-25 year olds, the main reason for this is because they enjoy the thrills of the films, they are more likely to excite younger people than older ones.

Horror films have different sub genres for example:

• The Monster Scare
• Psychological Thrillers
• Slasher Pics
• Zombie films

Horror films have changed quite a bot over the different years of making them

1930s: they were based on a literature and films like Dracula
1950-1960s: alien and monsters were created into the genre
1970s: realism was introduced the genre
1980s: special effects were made and used
1990s: psychological thrillers are made and fear of the unknown is used

 

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The Grinch is originally a Comedy, Family and Fantasy kind of film, it is mainly watched at christmas time as it is set on christmas eve, where a green man called the grinch is trying to ruin christmas for everyone else as he hates it. The director for the film is Ron Howard, the writer for the book is Dr. Seuss ad writer for the film is Jeffrey Price.

This film is mainly aimed at people aged 6 and upwards,this is because the whole idea of the film is quite calm and christmas related which is exciting for the younger age group. Some people say that it isn’t quite suitable for younger age groups because in some places it can be seen as frightening for the younger ages, also because in some places can be seen as violence towards others which isn’t quite suitable for people below the age of 6. It is also recommended for people above 6 because some of the things the Grinch says children below 6 might not take it as a joke however 6 and upwards they can take some of the things he says as a joke and not seriously, for example when the Grinch says “hang himself” 6 year old might not take that as a joke.

This film is the most successful film in the 2000 in the USA after a month it went on general release, it last shows that it is closely followed by Mission: Impossible 2. Over 33 days since it had been released it got £146.8 million putting it in front of a Tom Cruise film, because it was released towards the end of the year it was also one of the biggest films in 2001 as well. Th Grinch got $345.1 million whist making it when it was released making it the 6th highest-grossing film in 2000, the budget of the film was $123 million

In this film they had to use a lot of makeup for the Grinch and the other characters, the makeup for the grinch first took up to 8 hours which made him want to quit, however they then got agents to make the makeup artist more calm whilst doing it to make it quicker, it then took 2 hours to do the makeup and get into the costume and 1 hour to get it all of and out of the costume. the overall time to do the Grinch makeup was 92 days.

 

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Planning: (Complete before starting work)

To be able to do this task I will need to first decide what film I will want use and change into a different genre, when I have chosen what film I want to use I will need to decide what I will want to change it into and how I will do that. For this I decided to use How the Grinch Stole Christmas and change that into a horror. I decided to do a horror as I feel like in some parts the Grinch can be seen as scary and how the others react to him can be what are in some horror films.

Once I chosen what film I wanted to use and what genre to turn it into I had to research the original film and it’s genre and then the new genre it will be to get an idea of how I could turn it into a horror.  To actually be able to finish this I will need to make sure I have the right Grinch film and all of it, make sure I can use it premier and know how to get little bits of the film to use separately. I will need an idea of what kind of clips I will want to use in my trailer before I start doing the edit so I don’t have to watch the whole film at college and waste my time.

 

Research & Experimentation:

Before starting to edit the film I will need to research the original film and what genre it is and how I could change it. I will also need to research into what makes a good horror film and how I could do that. Finally to be able to do this task I will need to research how I can edit a whole film into smaller clips and put them together to make my own trailer.

By doing this research it will help me with the finished product and how I can make it the best I can.

 

Production:

The final outcome of this I am quite happy with as it does kind of look like a horror film trailer. To do this I imported the whole film into premier so I could edit it and get the different clips I wanted. Once I had done that I needed to cut the different bits I wanted from the original film and delete the bits I didn’t want.

Once I had got all the clips I could possibly use I needed to decide what ones I actually wanted to use and the ones I thought weren’t as good so I wouldn’t use.

Once I had decided what clips I wanted to use I had to actually put them altogether to make sure there weren’t any gas between each of the clips. Once I had done that I put some transitions at the beginning of the whole thing then at the end to make sure it wasn’t just a sudden start or end, it kind of just faded in and then faded out slowly.

After I had done all the editing on it and was happy with it I needed to export it so I could  upload it to YouTube to then put it onto WordPress.  To export it from premier I needed to change the format to H.264, change the name to something I’ll know it as and then save it somewhere where I’ll know where it is and can get to.

 

Reflection:

I am happy with the overall outcome of the trailer I have made as it is my first time doing this. However there are a few things that I feel like I could change to make it even better for next time. For example I feel like i could’ve made it a little bit shorter as it is 2:28 long and trailers can’t really be longer than 2:30 so I feel like it is too long for a short trailer and I could’ve got rid of some of the clips that I used. I also feel like some of the clips I have included aren’t really to do with the genre horror so don’t really fit with what I was aiming to create. I also feel like it doesn’t really tell a story within the trailer, I feel like it is just random clips put together to try and make it look like a horror kind of film. Even though I’m not happy with all of it, I am happy with the over all thing as I feel like it has tried out as a horror film trailer and can be seen as a horror.

When I had finished editing it all together I needed to export it from premier and upload it to Youtube then put it onto WordPress for others to watch and comment on it.