Applying recognisable conventions of trailers

In order to play with the recognisable conventions of trailers, in groups we came up with ideas about how to market and promote 'Bloodshed High'.

We firstly thought that the best way to get the visual of the title given to us would be to create a storyboard of the events that would take place in the trailer. We thought the best way to start rather than to jump into the story line would be to introduce it by a well known production company so rather than the typical 'Twisted Pictures Present..', we decided to use 'Lionsgate' as they are never really known to make horror movies so it would look like they are venturing into something new.

I genuinely felt confident about the task as we were given the opportunity to create any visual of the title 'Bloodshed High', coming up with creative ideas and concepts which we were capable of doing.

We had a good unique selling point which was a very important feature such as the setting which would be in a school in London with British actors rather than in typical America with Hollywood actors.

After our group presentation (above) and looking at other groups ideas I learnt A LOT from this exercise;

Trailers are the most important type of advertisement for a movie; it shows the best parts of the movie which can be full of action, mystery, images and sounds which lures the target audience into watching.

Most successful film trailers contain well known actors and actresses and mentions a well known director e.g. The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan