HORROR TRAILER | THE CONJURING

The Conjuring is a 2013 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan.  Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga star as Ed and Lorraine Warren, who were American paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of haunting. Their reports inspired the Amityville Horror. The Warrens come to the assistance of the Perron family (Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor), who are experiencing increasingly disturbing events in their farmhouse in Rhode Island in 1971.

The Conjuring was released in the United States and Canada on July 19, 2013, and in the United Kingdom and India on August 6, 2013. The film grossed over $318 million worldwide from its $20 million budget, making it one of the highest grossing horror films of all time.

Release dates: July 19, 2013
Running time: 112 minutes
Budget: $20 million
Box office: $318,000,141

Directed by: James Wan  Produced by: Tony DeRosa-Grund, Peter Safran and Rob CowanWritten by: Chad Hayes and Carey W. HayesStarring: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingston and Lili TaylorMusic by: Joseph BisharaCinematography: John R. LeonettiEdited by: Kirk M. MorriProduction companies: New Line Cinema, The Safran Company and Evergreen Media Group

The cast:

·         Vera Farmiga as Lorraine Warren

·         Patrick Wilson as Ed Warren

·         Lili Taylor as Carolyn Perron

·         Ron Livingston as Roger Perron

·         Shanley Caswell as Andrea Perron

·         Hayley McFarland as Nancy Perron

·         Joey King as Christine Perron

·         Mackenzie Foy as Cindy Perron

·         Kyla Deaver as April Perron

·         Shannon Kook as Drew

 

PODCAST | 1

OPTIONS FOR OUR FINAL PROJECT

For our final project we could choose to create either a trailer, a short film or a music video. The one that stood out the most was a trailer and we decided that we'd create this as a group. We will each be highly involved in creating the trailer and will work as a close group to make it a successful as we can by bringing our ideas together.

Chase Sequence | Audience Responses

We got Mr Wood to look at our chase sequence and asked what we should improve on. We all agreed that the sequence would be better if we had spent more time editing as it was very messy. I think this is something that we will think of when creating a trailer in the future. I also think adding music to the chase scene would have made it more interesting and would have worked well.

We also asked some other students to take a look at our chase sequences and found out their responses.

CHASE SEQUENCE

Preliminary Task

We had the chance to practice using the recording equipment for a moving image as this is something we hadn't done in the past. We had the task of filming a chase sequence and learnt how to use the camera properly and how to change setting etc. We filmed the short piece around some trees. This task was very helpful as it gave us the chance to attempt filming something that is moving and not standing still which we have done in the past when creating audience reviews.

STARTING A2

Beginning my work for A2 

So far this year I have decided to create a short horror trailer, while working with Jodie Birkbeck, Laura Naylor and Ashley Billingham. We decided doing this project for our course work as a group as well all work well together and all have the same interests when creating something like this. Now that we have our idea of making a horror trailer we have to discuss and research into this idea more. We currently have a few ideas which will be posted on my blog soon. 

The ancillary tasks hat will go with out horror trailer will be a poster and magazine article which will include reviews from the horror film. Once I have complete all four of my analysis tasks I will begin to research all four of my trailers and posters and will then create my own.