Planning and Research (Development + Pre Production)
As part of the planning and research, technology has played a huge part in our project. As a group we planned to use blogger to produce our work and ideas. This is because a blog publishing service would allow us to upload as many blog as we need to without any limit. To illustrate our ideas and plans we needed more space to work with this is why we have decided to create a blog account for ‘Tempa Productions’. We could also design the blog of how we desire it to be, from different backgrounds, colours and themes. Blogger is also useful for uploading videos from either our computer or YouTube to present all our inspiration in working towards the teaser trailer. We are also able to upload pictures in just a simple click, showing different aspects of our ideas and presenting it through multi-media during the process of planning this project. Furthermore the service shows us how many people have viewed our blog, how they viewed it and also what country they are from. Our blog can easily be accessed by people through our link blogger has provided - http://www.tempaproductions.blogspot.com/
Search engines such as Google and Wiki helped us develop our product on the genre of ‘slasher’ horror. These resourceful sites lead us to expand on our knowledge of different types of techniques which we could apply to our horror poster, magazine and trailer. We had to analyse the mise-en-scene, sound, camera shots and editing. We were able explore over a wide range of information and images which allowed us to research into our sub genre ‘slasher’ leading us to look in depth into famous slasher movies such as ‘Scream’ studying the genre where we all felt comfortable to take this forward in the production of our teaser trailer. 
To help us in our analysis, websites such as www.imdb.com gave us all the sufficient details of when the movie was released, the sypnosis, the trailer and starring actors. We were also able to access different magazine websites such as 'EMPIRE' analysing the techniques and conventions of a magazine which we could apply to our own when it comes to making the product.
As we needed to have inspiration for our teaser trailer, we browsed through YouTube to check out different sub-genre horror trailers and figure out the similar conventions seen in most of them. Our trailer is based on a video camera filming through the camera mans view therefore this makes it more realistic and that the audience would be able to relate to it. We searched for movies such as REC, Paranormal Activity and Grave Encounter, where it is similar to our trailer studying the different techniques in the way the video is edited and added effects. We was most intrigued by the idea of how Grave Encounter was edited and took inspiration from it because it is how we envisioned our trailer to be like.
We also found inspiration for the look of our antagonist through YouTube. We browsed through Halloween tutorials where there were makeup gurus and artists teach the viewers step by step how to achieve the look and what equipment will be needed. This is highly useful as we are inexperienced with makeup effects and are able to access through YouTube and take it as a free lesson. We brainstormed some ideas on how we wanted our antagonist to look like. We found the ‘unzipped face tutorial’ most intriguing as it gave the killer effect in slasher movies and tells a story behind the zipped face in similarities to Freddie Cougar where he has a distinctive, scarred and unpleasant face. To create this effect we found a video that simplified it because as we didn’t want it to be time consuming.
For our audience research feedback we used multi media to interview people and came up with 21 questions that are related to horror. As our trailer is classified as age 15 we was aiming the movie more towards students therefore we wanted to know their opinion and aspects of horror movies. We recorded some response via our camera phone, blackberry messenger and gave a couple of questionnaires out.
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