The Blair Witch Project film poster analysis - task 2 (poster)

From the effect of the picture it seems to be in a negative effect, presenting us with only black, white and grey colours. This gives a distorted reversal veiw of the forrest. This adds to the supernatural mise en scene of a forrest, seeing as forrests are ususally associated with many myths, such as werewolfs, vampires and ghosts, this effct links in with the super natural associaion as it seems very distorted, showing that it is not normal forest foreshadowing that something thrilling and outside of the ordinary may happen in this film.
And within the picture a symbol is shown above 'The Blair Witch Project' which may signify satanic, cult ideas of the movie emphasisng the horror thriller genre of the film, this is also shown many times within the trailer showing emphasis on the cult thriller genre of the film.
Also within the poster the words 'A year later their footage was found' this denotes to the audience that something supernatural may have happened to the characters within th film, already giving away sme on the story line to rope the audience in. Using this also makes the film seem like a failed doctumary giving the film mundane realism, this adds to the thriller theme of the poster and film. 
Also the writing on the poster gives away background information to the audience creating a back story for the audience, some information is given but not all, or enough to creat and perfect picture, this leads the audience to create a psychopathc thriller within their minds.
when creating my movie poster i will be using some aspects of this poster as the parody we will be making will feature all conventions of scary movie spoofs but will be based around the film of 'The blair witch project'.

brief selected

after the briefing of the many choices avaliable to pick from i came to two options that i would really enjoy completing. the two choices were the documentary, and the other being the teaser film trailer. After brainstorming ideas with my partner we came to the conclusion that doing a teaser film trailer would be more effective.
we have decided to put together a paraody of the blair witch project, thus we will be researching the blair witch project movie and also moves such as scary movie for inspriation and ideas.
from the two other tasks we will be doing a magazine front cover and a film poster for the movie.

Guide to research

1)      Write a definition of the term research.

The systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.

 

2)       What is primary research?

Primary research consists of a collection of original primary data. It is often undertaken after the researcher has gained some insight into the issue by reviewing secondary research or by analyzing previously collected primary data. It can be accomplished through various methods, including questionnaires and telephone interviews in market research, or experiments and direct observations in the physical sciences, amongst others.

 

3)      What is secondary research?

Research that has already been conducted ad can be available from books and the

internet

4)      What are the six steps to producing research?

Step 1 – selecting research topic

Step 2 – define the research problem/developing approach
Step 3 – research design
Step 4 – collecting data
Step 5 – performing research analysis
Step 6 – report and presentation

 

5)      Look at page 10(Sources of Information). can you think of another advantage of internet research with specific relevance to media studies?