Our Film Trailer

INSPIRATIONS:
We have mainly been inspired by 2 films, the story of “Carrie” and the film trailer of “Prom Night. We would like to use a similar character to that of “Carrie”. We would like to use a similar idea of the trailer of “Prom Night” where at the beginning it doesn’t look like a horror film and then suddenly we find out it is a horror film.

STORY:
Christie, a teenage girl starts at a new school/college. Her physical appearance makes her stand out from others. She becomes friends with a group of 3 males and 3 females. Although Christie sees this as “too good to be true”, she ignores the fact and decides to make friends ass quick as possible. Her so called friends decide to bully her and abuse her. A scene takes place in the girls toilets where Christie is beaten by the group of girls and left for death. At this point of the film, we see a change in the character of Christie as she begins to turn evil and into a “psycho”. She decides to take revenge on the group and begins to kill them one by one.

LAYOUT:
Introduction of Christie
Becoming friends with the group
Christie & The Group socialising
The Group betray Christie and beat her up
The change in character of Christie
Action from the film of Christie taking revenge
Movie Title
One last shot that will be used to make the audience “jump”

EDITING & SOUND:
We will be using slow and quick cuts for different parts of the trailer. This will build up suspense and anticipation

We will decide to use 2 main types of music. At the beginning we will use something similar to “Hip Hop”. This will be used when Christie is socialising with the group and the film doesn’t look like a horror film. Then we would like to use something similar to the “Saw” theme where it builds up anticipation and goes with the building up of suspense in the trailer.

CAMERA:
Wide shot
Mid-shot
Over the shoulder
Close up
Extreme Close up

MISE EN SCENE:
Costume
All the characters shall be wearing casual clothing as they will be in a school/college setting.
Christie, the main character and also seen as the villain shall have a particular piece of clothing which shall elude her from the other characters so she is clearly seen as the villain.
Props
A weapon (knife) used by the villain (Christie). This is conventional in the genre of “Horror” for the villain to have some sort of weapon.

Setting
The main setting shall be a school/college. Other settings will include a graveyard of some sort.

AUDIENCE:
We will be certifying our film for the age of 15-25. We have chosen this category as we believe more people will be able to view the film. As the characters in the film shall be around a similar age group, we believe they will be able to be related more to in this age group.
We would like to target a pre sold audience with the genre of “Horror” and to that of “Carrie” we shall be doing this by using similar ideas from “Carrie” in our own film trailer.
We shall be targeting males and females, however, females shall be the primary target as the main character shall be female and they can relate to the character more than male audiences.

CHARACTERS:
Christie
The film shall be based around her character. having started a new school/college, she becomes friends with a group of 6 people who she seems are her true friends however they are there just to use her and bully her. Her appearance shows her vulnerability to the group and makes her a target for them. Having been used/betrayed by her “friends”, she turns into a psychopath and decides to take revenge on those who have hurt her

Friends
A group of 6 people (3 male, 3 female) decide to use Christie as she has just started their school/college and they see her vulnerability in her appearance.

Police Officer
A typical character in a horror film in which he is there to try and save the helpless victims from Christie.

Horror Movie Trailers

These are some of the trailers that i have viewed and would like to use some of these ideas in my own Film Trailer...

Prom Night (2008)
Carrie
Drag Me To Hell