Genre Choice for Trailer

We wanted to change to a different genre and our first idea was a horror trailer hence the reason for the original horror deconstruction of Friday the 13th. However as a group, we thought that making this kind of trailer would be more difficult than it is worth because of the cost, effect to an audience and other groups in the class were strongly considering it. We wanted to do our own genre and we finally decided to do an action trailer based in the 1980s. We didn’t want to do a modern day action film because of the immediate similarities to the microscoped action films out recently and we wanted to have a set era and focus for the trailer. Previously we have worked on other genres and action was one we hadn't worked on before so it was something we all wanted to work at and succeed at.

We then researched into different action film genres from the 1980s, like Starsky and Hutch to get inspiration for our trailer. We feel that we now know what we need to do to create a successful trailer for this genre and era.

Change of Genre Decision

We decided at the very start of this project to produce a horror film trailer. We were pretty sure at this moment that we would be pursuing this genre and we decided to find other trailers for inspiration. I then decided to complete a deconstruction of a horror film trailer along with Michael and Jack. After we completed these, we had a re-think over our genre due to price, other groups in our class and challenging this genre with our own product. We therefore as a group decided to veer away from this genre and we then decided to do an action film genre instead from the 1980s. We decided to do this genre as it presented a new and interesting challenge that none of us had had before, and we thought that this would be more realistic to complete to a high standard than a horror film due to what we wanted to achieve. We also knew of other films along this kind of genre and era which we took a lot of inspiration from and we knew that we could challenge and develop our piece. As the other member of the group (Robin) had not completed a deconstruction at this point, he then proceeded to complete one in the action genre. This is the reason why our deconstructions are of different genres. We are now positive that we will stay in this genre.

Start of Project and Brief

Our brief is to create a promotional package for a new film, including a teaser trailer, together with:

. A film magazine front cover, featuring the film
. A poster for the film

We have decided on the group that we will be working with on this product. This will be:
Harry Booth
Robin Hutchinson
Michael Kuhn
Jack Jenkins

We have decided to go with a horror film genre for our trailer because we feel that we can challenge other films in this genre and we all had a lot of ideas on what we could do to create a successful horror film trailer. We will now proceed to deconstructions and research into this genre.

Time Plan

This is a copy of the time plan that we created. We will follow this throughout and attempt to keep by it.