Box Office Horror Rankings

Rank	Title (click to view)	Studio	Lifetime Gross / Theaters		Opening / Theaters		Date
1	Scream	Dim.	$103,046,663	1,994	$6,354,586	1,413	12/20/96
2	Scream 2	Dim.	$101,363,301	2,688	$32,926,342	2,663	12/12/97
3	Scream 3	Dim.	$89,143,175	3,467	$34,713,342	3,467	2/4/00
4	Freddy Vs. Jason	NL	$82,622,655	3,014	$36,428,066	3,014	8/15/03
5	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre	NL	$80,571,655	3,018	$28,094,014	3,016	10/17/03
6	I Know What You Did Last Summer	Sony	$72,586,134	2,524	$15,818,645	2,524	10/17/97
7	Friday the 13th (2009)	WB (NL)	$65,002,019	3,105	$40,570,365	3,105	2/13/09
8	Halloween (2007)	MGM/W	$58,272,029	3,475	$26,362,367	3,472	8/31/07
9	Halloween: H20	Dim.	$55,041,738	2,669	$16,187,724	2,607	8/7/98
10	My Bloody Valentine 3-D	LGF	$51,545,952	2,534	$21,241,456	2,534	1/16/09
11	A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master	NL	$49,369,899	1,767	$12,833,403	1,765	8/19/88
12	When a Stranger Calls	SGem	$47,860,214	3,004	$21,607,203	2,999	2/3/06
13	Halloween	CIP	$47,000,000	-	n/a	-	10/25/78
14	A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors	NL	$44,793,222	1,383	$8,880,555	1,343	2/27/87
15	Prom Night (2008)	SGem	$43,869,350	2,821	$20,804,941	2,700	4/11/08

My research shows me what budget and profit each film received since there release. This also tells me what studios product what types of films. This shows us the date each film was released and how popular the genre of High School Horror was at the time.

Movie 'Revenge' Poster and Original Idea

This is my final and original idea of my movie poster for our film trailer 'Revenge'. As you can see both poster are very similar and I have not made many changes from my original idea. The changes I have made is the size of the image of the book. The reason for this is because I felt that the book is an important image contributing to the trailer and from our audience feedback they did not realise that the book was significant to the storyline. I also made this image bigger because the image of the hooded character was not as big as orginally planned so there was more space that need to be used within the poster. Another change that I have made from the original poster to the final image is the line that is used as a slogan. The orginal slogan for my trailer was "It's Not A Story Anymore". Once it came to this part of my poster I felt that the line didn't display the right kind of message that I wanted. To me "How Fast Can You Read?" shows the importance of the book more and it sounds mysterious to lead the reader to think, what is the significance of the book and why is speed important when reading this book. I felt it was necessary to move the names of the actors in the film to be above the title 'Revenge', because now there is more focus on the main image than who is in the film. A change that I have made that I did not realise until after my final poster was finished is that I've changed which hand the knife is being held in. But I feel that it looks better having the knife in the left hand instead of the right because if the knife was in the right hand then there would have been a focus on the hand instead of the hooded figure and the knife.

Empire Magazine Cover and Original Idea

This is my Empire front cover final and original idea. The two images are very similar because I felt that my original idea would be successful if I used the right editing techniques to show a professional magazine cover. A few changes that I made from my original idea is the added featured article, which is the "HORROR REVIEWS". The reason for adding a featured article is because the central image looked like it was missing something, there was too much room to spare. The other changes that I made were because the facilities were not available to me. The first one was the title for 'Revenge', I could not find the right lettering that matched the genre of Horror or that it didn't look like cartoon lettering. The second change was the Flash, originally I wanted a double Flash overlapping each other, but I could not find one that suited the genre or that had enough pixars to use in photoshop. The changes that I made to the bar code, the Empire slogan, the website and the advertisement above the EMPIRE Masthead were made because as I looked at Empire Magazine cover in more detail I notice reoccurring techniques of this features. In order to make my magazine cover look like a professional Empire magazine cover, I had to use the same techniques they do with techniques they use every magazine cover.