Evaluation

Firstly, I will focus on my trailer. As I am spoofing "The Blair Witch Project" I felt that I should analyse real horror films, as well as spoof horror films, so I can get a good idea of scary aspects of which I can turn into humorous features that also fit in with the conventions of spoof horror films such as the Scary Movie franchise. A feature that I looked to turn from scary to humorous is where the murderer kills people as soon as they see them.  This is seen in the shot below when the humour is added to the situation by having the 'murderer' standing directly behind the characters.

The idea from this shot came from my analysis of the film trailer "The Descent" which regularly showed the murderer killing people. I'm specifically referring to the shot shown below which shows the murderer preparing to kill. I felt this could easily be spoofed as it contained the usual conventions of a horror shot, but then it could be shown as comedic as shown in the print screen above.

Another convention that I have followed is that it is set in a scary location. I feel that this would set the scene that it is a horror film, which makes spoofing it even better as it seems a more realistic spoof. An example of the location is shown below.

An example of a scary location being a convention in a horror film is in the film trailer for "The Blair Witch Project". This is set in a desolate wood, and my film is set in a graveyard, both of which are conventional locations in a horror film. I also chose to use this location because many aspects of it can be spoofed, thus giving my film more options. An example of the location used in "The Blair Witch Project" can be seen below.

I will now look to see how I have challenged conventions of conventional/spoof horror films. My first example comes from mostly using mid shots throughout my trailer. This is challenging conventions because both spoof and horror films normally use a variety of shots. An example of this is shown below in a shot taken from the trailer for the horror film "The Ring", where a close up is used.