Directors' Featurette

Evil Dead trailer (2013) Analysis

The narrative for evil dead is five friends head to a remote cabin, where the discovery of a Book of the Dead leads them to unwittingly summon up demons living in the nearby woods. The evil presence possesses them until only one is left to fight for survival. This is a conventional narrative location and structure to a horror film. The location of the woods and a remote cabin is conventional to the genre as it creepy and remote, meaning know one will be able to help them or gather help from others. The pacing of the trailer is typical for a action horror, collision cutting being used as well. The use of slow pacing at the start builds suspense, before the pace of the editing increases matching the parallel music. Other typical aspects is the characters of the antagonist, its conventional that a someone becomes possessed by an evil spirit it will be a young small (looks venerable) female. They use as this will be more shocking for the audience for a 'weak' female to become the strong killer. Another character that is typically seen and features in the red band trailer is the young, blonde attractive female (seen under the girl when she is cutting her tounge), stereotypically in horror films this character will be killed with a phallic symbol.
The cinematography used in the trailer is another typical aspect for the genre, consisting of many close ups, close ups are used to show the emotion of the character. Other conventional shots used are expressionist angles, the characters who are the victims are shot from a high angle, representing the power that has been put over them and the weakness in the situation.

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magazine Analysis

I created my magazine in the style of the iconic magazine ‘Fangoria’, which is a US magazine containing mainly slasher and gore horror films. However, I feel that the style of the magazine isn't perfect for the more psychological side of my film. However the magazine did create was very conventional to a horror magazine, for example the colors. The main colors on my magazine are red and black both conventional for a horror magazine as the both connote fear and danger. The type I used was red and has dripping effect representing the look of blood, this links well with the theme of ‘Fangoria’ being mainly slasher films. The use of yellow writing for information works well as it contrasts to one another making it stand out and appeal to the audience.

 

Another convention is the main character or scariest character being the main image on the magazine, as this will appeal to the target audience. Two shots are very conventional when showing the archetypal character in horror (monster or killer) a close up or a long shot from a low angle to show the power and strength of the person.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overall I feel that my magazine I created is effective and works well, I feel that a magazine writing about a horror film should stick to the genre of horror film magazines. As a weekly or monthly release for horror magazines the target audience will aspect the latest film will be in the magazine as they will most likely have a subscription. However when putting a horror film such as mine in a magazine such s empire or total film I feel it doesn't work as well and the more up market look doesn't work as well for horror films and will to appeal to the audience as much.