Reserch in to Thriller Posters- Iron Man

The "iron man" poster is a rather advanced poster with the effects used such as the animation used in creation of the poster. The main composition of the poster shows the main character in the background and then slowly descends down from character to character in their roles. At the top of the poster it is written who the main actors are, then on the poster it shows who the characters are by positioning them on the poster. On the bottom of the poster it shows the directors and companies used to make involved in the making of the film.


The picture show Iron Man at the back towering over all of the rest, this represents him as being more important, this also draws your attention to him. The explosion in the bottom just above the title brings your attention to the title. This would be a good unique feature to put on my poster but not as technical.

Reserch in to Thriller Posters-Trainspotting

The poster shows the five main characters of the film with the striking a pose and nest to them in a square of their name and a number. Splitting the poster in two is the title of the film "trainspotting" this splits the attention from the top and bottom of the poster. At the bottom of the poster is the information of the companies who made it and directors.
In the poster it shows all the main characters in black and white, it stands out on the orange back ground, drawing your attention to poster. I think I would use this in my poster.

Reserch in to Thriller Posters-Frankenstein.

This is an old poster from the late 50's to early 60's. It is drawn by hand and animated as the technology wasn’t around to create high tech posters. The writing of the name stand out from the page as it is larger than the other writing and the colour 'yellow' draws your attention. The picture is of Frankenstein and a woman and in between is the information of the movie e.g. director, actors.

In this poster the font writing the name of the movie stands out from the poster as the colour elevates it from the back of to make it feel as if it coming out of the poster. The picture which shows him towering over making the woman seems petrified. How he wears black makes creates the feeling of fear and power, this would be a good idea to put in my trailer.

Chosen Genre

I have come to a conclusion to what film trailer I am going to make.
I am going to make a thriller trailer because I find it interesting and the way people are drawn into the films and also older audience can watch them as well as the younger generation which are around my age, so I can easily relate to. Also as I made a thriller film last year in my AS course so I have the feel of thriller fresh to mind.

Results Summed Up

From looking at my questionnaire results it is clear that I the majority of people like thriller films, and it’s clear that the most of the people who I surveyed were around my age so they enjoy horrors and thriller films, so I can easily relate to them.

The trailers most people like have seen them advertised from posters, bill boards and trailers either on the internet or on TV.

People like a film trailer that is quick and not to long that reveals too much in the trailer. The average time is between 90seconds and 2minutes. So I looked into film trailers and most are between 1minute and 2 minutes.

As most people surveyed liked horror and thrillers, it is clear that majority of the music in the trailers will be the same, so the survey show that the most numbers in music were in fast and tension music.

Questionnaire Results

I have summed up all of my questionnaire and have put the results into pie charts, this took a long time but was done over time.
From these results i will deside my genre of film. It was very close between all the genres, but horror and thriller were the biggest contestants.




I then got a good range of age, roughly equal in all age ranges, for example under 12 year olds did my questioaire more than 50+. The largest range of people surveyed was 18-22year olds, this is because i gave a lot to people i know who are between 18 and 22.




I surveyed more males from females in the questionnaires, but I tried to get it as equal as possible to make it a fair survey.




The duration of the was surveyed and from my results its a big show that most trailers are between 1minute and a half and up to 2 minutes. So this is good as the majoprity of films are between 1minute ane 2 minutes.




In a lot of movies you hear a vioce over so i took this in and put it on the questionaire and the resluts are very clear. I looked at some trailers and some had voice overs but the larger part of trailers i lookes didn't have voice overs.




I believe that music in trailers can entise the audicane to see the movie more, so i put this in my questioaire, and from my results it shows that the best music for thriller genre should be fast and have some tension in it, as the results show.




The get the film out so the public can see what i would be advertising i put ion my questionare how they would find out about the movie. The people i serveyed had seen movies mostly advertised on billboards, posters, by word of mouth and by trailers.

Sample questionnaire

Questionnaire

I have just started my questionnaire and am now giving them out to the students of my school and also people out of school for a larger result. I am currently giving out 50 copies in school and am going to give out 30 out of school, bring the total to 80 questionnaires. I think this is a big enough sample. Here is a sample of my questionnaire

Venn Diagram

This diagram represents the different genres of films and what they all have in common. This is part of my research.

Research on each films

Research in to films.
I'm going to look in to each film individually
Firstly ADVENTURE

Indiana Jones, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.



The trailer shows the adventure of an archaeologist who is on a quest to uncover the secret of the crystal skull, whilst on his journey he uncovers secrets of his life and his son.
He uncovers a civilisation of an ancient culture further than any other man has searched before.


This is typical adventure movie, showing some of the action films, also it shows all the characters of who are in the films.

Secondly ACTION
The Bourne Ultimatum



The third in trilogy, this movie show the life of a man who has had his memory wiped by the government and is following steps to uncover why they have done this to him. On his journey he finds help to uncover the government.

A typical action film, showing the majority of the action scenes, also it show the life of there character so that you can see what he is going through.
What I like about the trailer is that the scenes are really well shot, good quality

Thirdly THRILLER
Shutter Island



a fantasy sci-fi thriller that shows a detective that goes to a high security mental prison and gets drawn by devilish forces, he trys to fight his way out after becoming one of the prisoners.


The thing that all these films have in common is that they are all produced by major companies with large budgets, so the disadvantage of making this film will be that i don't have the funding for these type of movies, so I won’t make a good as quality film.