The group used various online resources and software to research, plan, construct, and evaluate their psychological horror film project. They used IMDB to research popular horror themes and films. Google Images and a mood board were used to develop ideas. YouTube was referenced to analyze horror film trailers and conventions. Adobe Premiere and Photoshop were used to construct the trailer, applying video effects like brightness/contrast filters and fade to black. Blogger facilitated blog posts and surveys to evaluate feedback from test screenings of the rough cut trailer.

1. EVALUATION PART 3

2. HOW DID YOU USE MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES WITH THE
CONSTRUCTION, RESEARCH, PLANNING AND
EVALUATION STAGES?
The main media my group used for research and planning for our main product was the internet movie
database (IMDB). Its search features allowed us to look at the top psychological horror movies so that we
could see what was a popular theme in the horror genre and what the audience liked most. We even found
some horrors through IMDB we hadn’t heard before such as “Kandisha” and “What ever happened to baby
Jane?” We used the internet majorly throughout the progress of planning, to make our mood board to create
ideas of what to include in our film idea. Google Images was very helpful to this, as we found thought were
creepy and what we liked as a group that were included in the psychological horrors we liked.
Our mood board features films such as Psycho, Insidious and
Grave Encounters. Our trailer uses a similar scene in
Psycho, the famous “Shower scene” as our jump scare at the
end.

3. We used YouTube a lot when planning and researching to watch trailers and get specific ideas of shots and horror
conventions that we wanted within our own trailer. The trailers we liked the most were Evil Dead (2013) even though
this is a gory horror film and trailer we liked the usage of the fast montage effects and the way the text fitted in with
the music. Another trailer we liked was Insidious (2010) as we liked the intensity of the trailer throughout as well as
the jump scare at the end of which we wanted to add into our own. The other trailer that inspired us in our trailer was
The Grudge (2004), where the intertitle text was similar to our ideas and also mixed in the idea of something driving
the main character insane and eventually turning into a psychopathic killer.

4. The media technologies that my group used for construction were Adobe Premiere and Adobe Photoshop.
Within Adobe Premiere, we used tools such as the effects controls where we could apply video effects within
our trailer. We mainly used the brightness and contrast filter on our shots of which we found very useful and
helpful to create an eerie atmosphere in our mise-en-scene. Another video effect we used was a fade to black
effect on which we used at the end of shots to fit in with our favourite trailers that used this effect, we thought
the effect created intensity and made the shots creepy. This worked particularly well with the flashing image of
Anna breathing in and out underneath the plastic. The strobing effect of dipping to black is intentionally
horrible for the viewer to watch.

5. Another tool we used was the razor tool where we could split shots and make them appear quicker and made it
easier to edit our trailer to make those scary shots. We used the speed controls for most of our shots as it made eerie
and uncomfortable shots speeding them up, these are mainly used in our psychological shots. We edited the sound
easily with this program too, using copyright and royalty free sounds found through both Google and YouTube. The
music helped us change pace and where it could fit in with the trailer, such as when Anna is first dragged into the
asylum and before we take the pills ourselves. The jump scare noises (such as when we take the pills) we edited onto
our main product, and we had a final double jump scare (Anna turning, then Anna stabbing towards the camera) to
shock our audience.
A real life horror that does a double jump scare is The Conjuring 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k10ETZ41q5o

6. Lastly, the media technology I mostly used to evaluate my products was Blogger. With Blogger, it had me create my blog
posts easily and efficiently as I could view all my progress in one space, I could set up my work quickly and have them
read by whomever. Creating my blog was easy to set up; having my own design on my blog made it feel like my own, and
I could appreciate my work from afar and assess its quality. For the rough cut of our trailer we had it uploaded to
YouTube, this being useful, as YouTube is a popular website and could easily be used by others. It being on YouTube we
could show it to friends and family and ask them what they thought of it and what they liked and disliked. This was vital
during the “Focus Group” screening of our trailer, as well as during the final “Evaluation Screening.” I also ended up
showing our rough cut of Delirium to friends and family, and from this I gained insight for viewers of our demographic
and then decided what had been disliked and what should stay in our trailer. Adding feedback surveys to my blog also
helped with this process of improving the Delirium trailer as much as possible.