Brief

Hello, my name is Magdalena Ploch and I am in my second year of studying A-level Media Studies.
A part of our coursework for this year was to create a range products for a promotion of a horror film like a trailer, a poster and a magazine front cover. The first step in our project was to construct questionnaire based surveys on a website called Questionpro in order to find out what the target audiences enjoy to see in horror/slasher films. The questionnaire was distributed through popular social websites like Facebook and Twitter so the guarantee of a lot of response to the questionnaire was high. As well as that, we also had to conduct qualitative research based on our magazine and poster templates. The questionnaires were only a small part of our pre-production research. We also had to analyse existing horror film trailers and research the history of horror which included creating a presentation about German expressionism and Film Noir. When all the research aspects were completed it was time for the group work and creating the actual trailer for our slasher film. However, before we could go out on set much preparation had to be done and this included creating the synopsis, casting actors, making call sheets, location scouting and many more. When all that was done we shot our scenes and edited them together to make the final piece.
When all of the tasks were completed, we then had to move on to answering four questions based on our project.