My choices

Pre-production task

For my pre-production task I will be producing a DVD cover for a horror/thriller film, which will link to my main production piece. This cover will include all the typical codes and conventions of a DVD cover, such as the film blurb, quotes from film reviews and mandatory things like the barcode and the age restrictions. The colours I plan to use are mostly blacks/dark colours and white, I would like to stick to this theme as I like the idea that the white symbolises the innocence of the victim and the black shows the darkness of the monster/events of the film. I will base my DVD cover in response to the research that I did on other professional horror DVD covers. 
My research on professional DVD covers included comments on the typical codes and conventions, the colour impact on the reader and the use of text font. By looking at these designs I have got an idea of the layout and design I would like to use on my pre-production.
I have also researched into what industry will be making the film and who will distribute the film. From this research I have decided to use the 'Hammer' company (Simon Oakes) to be listed as producing the film as they have produced related films to ours such as 'The Woman In Black' and 'Let Me In'. The distributor I would like to use for my film would be 'Warner Bros Pictures' as they have distributed other films in the same genre of mine, for example 'The Conjuring (2013) and 'Chernobyl Diaries (2012)'.  

Main Production task

The research I conducted for my pre-production will also help for my main production piece, but I also have conducted individual research for my main production piece,  which is going to be a horror/thriller trailer. For this task I have watched various trailers for the same genre film as mine, e.g 'The Strangers (2008)' and 'The Conjuring (2013)'. The analysis of which will be on my blog soon. By mixing my research with older horror/thriller films and more up to date horror/thriller films I feel I have got a good variety of research. 
The trailer will be around 3 minutes long and will contain the 'best bits' of the film, to entice the viewer to watch the whole film. The 'best bits' will be the goriest and most horrific, and will give a hint to what the plot is about and the events that occur, but leave enough mystery to make the viewer want to find the film and watch it fully. The trailer will not have a voice over as it is a typical convention for horror/thriller film trailers to not include any narrating. The only dialect will be that in the actual filming, for example, like mentioned in my mind map, I plan to use typical dialect such as "what do you want", so this is an example of a quote I would like to use for my trailer. this is also the same for any music, as I do not want to use non-diegetic sound in the trailer, only diegetic, as I want the trailer to have a raw and sharp feel to it, to add the the uncomfortable atmosphere.
The trailer will be dark and eerie, to automatically make the viewer feel uncomfortable and nervous as to what is going to happen. A typical ending to the trailer is to show one of the key points in the film and the most bloody and then abruptly interrupt it with the credits/releasing dates.