1. In this slideshow is a documentation of all the
work which I put into my A2 media coursework;
during week one.
Mary Nzeh

2. Week one:
Planning and decision making
0 During the first week of my media coursework, my group and I (kianna and Elizabeth) had
to firstly ensure that we choose a task to work on.
We chose to work on trailers. However, although we had some basic knowledge of this film
genre we then had to do some deep rooted research; Doing this allowed us to learn the codes
and conventions of thrillers. As well as giving us ways in which to use them appropriately in
our trailer. For instance the use of lightning, through appropriate research we would be able
to know which scenes work well with dark lightning and which do not.
This meant we looked and studied a couple of thriller trailers I choose to research and
analyse four trailers; insidious, the ring 3, don’t be afraid of the dark and the roommate.
(which would be viewed to you later on in my blog)

3. Week 1:
0 Also, during this first week, my group and I also had to ensure that we all agreed on the
fairy-tale to modify and make into our own.
Here are the fairy tales which we were willing to work on:
Goldilocks
and the three
bears
Little red
Snow white
ridding hood
Sleeping
Cinderella
beauty
After all the brain storming; we finally decided to work on the well known fairy tale:
little red riding hood.
In the next slide are a reasons why we chose fairy-tale little red riding hood .

4. Reasons for our fairy tale
choice.
0 We chose little red ridding hood as it is a very well known fairy tale, which could be classified
“edgy” as the theme and moral of the story can be modified in many different ways. For
instance, into an adult version, a hunted version and even a romance.
However, having said this, little red ridding hood as been modified many times. Which almost
makes it almost common. However, my team and I did not want a fairy tale which is classified
common we wanted to be creative and different. During this contemplation, I noticed that little
red ridding hood wasn’t modified numerous times because it is common, but rather because it is
almost very easy to manipulate and even play around with.
We also chose this fairy-tale because we were determined to change the gender stereotypes
attached to the this particular fairy tale. We wanted to show women as strong and determined
individuals rather than the timid, shy and “ditsy” character which little red ridding hood played.
On this note, we had to change and mify the narrative to suit this brave character which we
wanted her to play. We began to list out a couple of actions which she could take to portray this:
• She could save her grand mother rather than the huntsman
• She could kill her grandmother
• She could fall in love with the huntsman but however, be the one to save her grand mother

5. 0 Having chosen the fairy-tale which we will be working on; we then had to think of a movie
genre which we will be modifying it into.
However, we found this a bit of a challenge as we had to brainstorm a few genres which we
would be willing to work on and the narrations behind them. These ideas have been
demonstrated below
Romance; whereby little
red ridding hood falls in
love with the huntsman
Horror: whereby little Thriller: whereby little
red ridding hood kills her red riding and the
grand mother rather huntsman fight to save
than the wolf the grandmother
Adventure,; whereby
Comedy: whereby little
little red ridding hood
red ridding hood gets
gets lost in the woods
lost on her way to her
and goes on an
grandmothers and has
adventure forgetting she
an adventure
was on an errand
Finally, we chose to modify little red ridding hood into a thriller. We chose this because little red ridding hood is
rarely modified into a thriller. Rather its always been modified into horrors and romances.
This genre would allow us to be creative and different, because it is something different.

6. Things to think about
Having chosen little red ridding hood, we had to think about:
0 representations
0 Narrative Representations: due to our new narrative of our chosen
0 Characters- protagonists and antagonists fairy tale; representations have become key elements to our
0 Audience (audience and reading ) trailer. This would determine how our audience may read
0 Sound and music
certain connotations.
Due to this, we would have to take symbolism very seriously as
Mise en scene: this includes lighting it could be classified an easy to way to add an additional
and colour, setting, props, costumes, hair meaning or significance; from a producer to an audience. (when
ad make up, body movement, body applied and used correctly.)
language, expressions and movements. With this comes my knowledge of my supposed audience, as I
The use of appropriate Mise en scene would have to be aware of exactly what my audience
would improve our trailer a whole a lot. stereotypically would like to see in a movie (then adding it to
This would/could determine how the movie- almost pacifying them)
successful our trailer may be . For Also, through my representation comes stereotypical
instance, an interior shot of a dark representation, whereby I represent some characters in my
room, flooding with deep red light as trailer in a certain way due to their social groups or even gender.
well as props such as status and For instance the huntsman may be very manly and masculine.
crucifixes become frightening, creating Other stereotypic representations which my group and I would
the thrill in which the genre is signalled. have to consider throughout the course of the trailer:
Having said this, we are definitely taking • Accents
the Mise en scene very serious and have • Women and their knowledge
assigned kianna to ensure that all Mise • Male and masculinity
en scene is appropriate for a scene as • Representation of old people
well as impacting to the genre of the • Character representation
thriller. • (And maybe) archetypes

7. Don’t be afraid of the dark
Audience (audience and reading): my group
and I would like for the audience to use a preferred
reading method to read the trailer, that is; to get a
certain amount of thrill from the trailer as we intend.
Although we may not be making a movie, we would like Red lights:
to convey to the audience that the trailer is in fact a
thriller trailer; for a thriller movie as it would create a
certain fear or suspense. To achieve this, we would
have to avoid our target audience to read the trailer in
an opposionnal manner. To do this our trailer must
have a sense of realism.
When thinking about audience, I would also have to
think of my intended audience, and how I would like to
represent them. We have chosen young individuals Black swan
from the age 15-21 to be our target audince. This is
because we are aware that they are more or less likely
to go and watch thrillers as they seek thrills and
excitement.
We have also done some research on the ages given to
most thriller movies and found that most thrillers such
as don’t be afraid of the dark’s age certificate was 15.

8. Narration:
Due to the fact that my group and I have decided on a genre to modify our fairy tale into; (thriller) making a narrative
to suit this genre becomes almost easy.
With this comes the use of certain characters and their relevance to the story. For instance, the use of a protagonist
and an antagonist.
We have made changes to the original fairy tale little red ridding hood.
Changes such as:
• Turning the wolf into a witch- unlike in the original story, the wolf was the antagonist. However, we have
modified this as it much easier to act out. Also, we lack the use of appropriate resources to add a certain realism
to the character of a wolf. So turning this character into a witch, helps to add a modern twist to the story as well
as keeping it vintage/old.
• Instead of the huntsman being the only on to save the grandmother, the huntsman and little red ridding hood do
so-As being an all female group; my group and I are very displeased with the original story of little red ridding
hood as it plays women/girls out to be weaklings and helpless as they constantly need the help of a male to save
them. eg: the grandmother and little red ridding hood were saved by the huntsman. This would help to
neutralise the gender differences between men and women without making one more supirior than the other.
• Instead of little red ridding hood to wear a red cape; she wears a red dress- this change was solely made to add a
modern twist to the fairy tale. We also made this change to add a sense of contrast to the entire story. As it then
looks like she (little red ridding hood) would be the typical fairy tale girl who is ditsy and helpless, however, as
the trailer develops she almost acts like the huntsman. We have done this to contradict the stereotypical
representation of women.

9. Sound and music: sound effects (in general) can be classified as one of the most important factors of a
trailer. As they add suspense, climax, create a mood. They single can make the audience read the trailer in a
just as the director/ producer intended (preferred reading).
Sound effects play a major part to thrillers and horrors. For instance a common sound such as the squeak of a
can add a whole lot of scare to the viewers as it helps to increase tension.
Here are a couple links to some sound effects which my group and I think may be useful when creating our
thriller trailer as they may add a sense of thrill or suspense to or trailer. You can just copy the link.
http://www.freesfx.co.uk/soundeffects/doors/
Stair Gate Hinge Squeak Creak 003
http://www.freesfx.co.uk/soundeffects/clocks/
Clock tick 002
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MieJ6EOpxlQ
Lullaby