Text

As most of our research was based around the trailers of 'Paranormal Activity', we noted that on the very first trailer that came out, there was text explaining that this was a true story and how xcared people were so we thought it would be a good idea to try out some text in our trailer.


We thought it would be more intense if we added text throughout the whole trailer. Some at the beginning, middle and end. We decided that these text blocks added to the plain black would give the trailer an overall edge.

Beginning:

This was our initial idea for the text.
We liked the font and the black background but we thought the words gave too much away and takes too long to read.
The sentence doesn't 'roll off the tongue' as easy as we would have liked it too.






 

We decided against this one because the word 'children' doesn't work that well.

We thought that the bottom part was a little too long winded, it needs to be shorter.

 

This is the one we have decided to use because we think it works best.
The bottom line is much shorter and is much more intense and scary than the others.
Also, the top part of the text sounds more mature.






 Middle:


 


We thought that with this one, its sets the audience up to be terrorfied and as its just a trailer, we didn't want that. We want them to be scared and on the edge of their seats wanting to go and see the actual film so we decided against this text.





 




This gives too much away which isn't what we want to do in just a trailer. It tells the audience that something happened that night and we don't want them to know too much detail.






 


This is the better one of the three as it doesn't set the viewer up to be scared so they are less prepared for what's coming up next which is what we want.







End:

We're going to have the title of the movie shown at the end so viewers know what film it is that they want to watch at the cinema!!!