Media A2, Film Trailer (Unfinished)

1. Film Trailer
Ross & Jack

2. Dead on Record
 Genre - Horror
 Age Rating - 18+
 Plot – A mutation of bacteria known as „prions‟ which causes the
well known disease „mad cow disease‟ has spread through cattle
and has “Corrupted” humans with low immune systems. The
mutation of prions gets confined to a isolated area and our main
character is unfortunate enough to be stuck in the middle of it. The
story follows a 19-20 year old man going on a 2 week exhibition in
the forest to test out his survival skills. He takes his camera with him
to record how he copes and looks after himself but he does not
know of the prion mutation spreading through the area.

3. Inspiration and ideas
Doing a horror/thriller trailer we had multiple ideas but stuck to doing a
zombie infection outbreak trailer, without it being too „cliché‟. The idea of a
man who was run down and slowly being infected was just a standard
suggestion. Then we got inspiration from the film „127 Hours‟ and „REC‟
had ideas of having our character creating recordings of his experience to
stay sane. This idea then came to create the title of our film trailer „dead
on record‟.
The idea of a zombie film was because we was fans of many zombie films
such as: „28 Days & Weeks later‟ „Dawn of the Dead‟ „Diary of the Dead‟
(were we also got inspiration from doing a handheld camera film).
We then looked at the film „D.O.A‟ were a man has been poisoned and
has been told he only has a few days to live and must find a cure. Which
was very similar to ours but in a different scenario.

4. Poster ideas
We like the idea of showing the camera
on the poster as its our main prop and
plot to our film.
Ideas of having the lens reflecting the
zombie/monster such as these two
poster have done to show audiences a
small insight to the story of the film.
Still undecided whether to have an
illustrated cover or of our actor.

5. The handheld camera being in the
foreground suggesting to the
audiences that the film is based
around this prop
Use of the word „DEAD‟ to suggest the
zombie/undead reference to the film
Similar to ours „DEAD on Record‟
Motto or sell line of the film „shoot the
dead‟ having two meanings shoot on
camera and shoot with weaponry

6. Both different posters but using the same technique
of the camera in the foreground suggesting the plot
for the film. But also both lenses have a reflection of
something to give audiences an insight to the films
evil character(s).
Big inspiration to our movie poster.

7. Target Audience
 Our film trailer is to appeal more to an age rating of around 18-30
year olds interest in horror and thriller.
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8. Props
 Liquid Latex  Water bottle  Can opener
 Cooking pot  Bowl
 Fake blood
 Canned food  Whisk
 Camcorder
 Sleeping bag
 Rubble/Bricks
 Inflatable bed
 Cardboard boxes  Bed pump
 Axe/ Pick Axe  Bog roll
 Matches  Spoon/knife/fork
 Tent  Pocket Knife
 Rucksack

9. Main Character
 The main character is a teen that is trying to raise money for
charity and is taking a challenge to survive in the woods for a
week without any help from the public. He must video log
everything he does for proof that he camped for a few weeks.
Secondary Character
 Our minor character has very little
background in the trailer but with the
background that he has got he is 20 yr. old
man running away from what he has seen in
the woods.

10. Extra‟s („Corrupted‟)
 Our extras who will be playing the role of the infected will be
based and designed to look like „The Walking Dead‟ infected
but to act like „28 Weeks Later‟ infected. We did not want our
infected to be like a cliché infected with a slow
walk, brainless and pretty dumb.
 Also in the film „[REC]‟ involves very intelligent infected. This
is the type of infected we want and „[REC]‟ was a big
inspiration.

11. Trailers and Camera Shots
In the Diary of the Dead the film is edited with
a yellow nicotine colour palette
Our film is going to use a blue and grey
colour palette. this takes the warmth out of
the film and creating this dark, cold thriller
atmosphere.
This will also make our blood a black/dark red
colour therefore making our film less
stereotypical of having bright red blood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGEX7x
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12. In this screenshot of the „Diary of the
Dead‟ trailer one frame is shot out of
focus to show the audience the
unexpected drama that takes place
amongst the characters.
This technique is mostly used when
running or to add drama to the scene
to excite the audience and carry out
suspense.
We are going to use this technique
when our main character is running
from an enemy and when he
encounters them unexpectedly.

13. The use of static can be used as a
transition in a handheld film, for example
in the trailer for Diary of the Dead when
the drama and action happens the
camera goes static and is used as a
transition from one angle to another
We are going to use this effect to switch
between the camera looking at our
character to looking in front of the
character.

14. In this scene of the „Diary of the
Dead‟ the female character is being
bitten.
In our scene we are going to try and
show the audience the bite and
instead of blood being poured onto
the floor our blood we spray onto
the character and enemies. Also
have small spray on the camera
lens and have the main character
clean it while facing him

15. Another effect we will use in our
film is the reflection of our
character holding the camcorder

19. In our trailer we will be using rotated
cameras to give an offset and unnatural
feel to the shots. Also our lighting will
follow this type of effect to build tension
and an unnerving feel.
We will use scenes like this one within
our trailer with dark rooms and
silhouettes to add mystery and suspense
within our trailer and shots.
Like the trailer for [REC] we will be using
a static effect on some of our shots to
show the effect of a defected camera or
a broken tape.

20. This shot in rec is a good example
of the colour correction they used on
the shots to take out the warmth
within most of the scene. We will be
using a different colour correction to
achieve the same type of thing.

21. First Location – Truck industrial
sight

22. Dusted wasteland area where our
main character will be and
encounters enemies.
Setting: Evening time/Night time.

23. Second film location – old worn
down pig farm

25. Old pig farm with a forest near for
our main character to run and find
shelter.

26. Costume design
Main Character –
-Black chequered shirt
-Dark Jeans
-Hiking boots
-Bag
Minor Character –
- Black shirt
- Green cargos
- Boots
Extras (Infected) –
-Old worn t shirts, shirts
-Dusted up trousers/jeans
-Prosthetics make up to make wounds and cuts
-Our Costume choices where chosen because we wanted our character to look like
normal civilians that have been in the woods for a few days/weeks.

27. Behind the scenes

28. For cuts and open wounds we bought
Liquid Latex and fake blood
Here we applied a layer of the liquid latex
on the arm and applied bits of tissue to
create the illusion of loose skin
Here we let the liquid latex and tissue dry
and used two sticks to split the dried latex to
create the open wound.
Then we applied the fake blood into the open
part of the liquid latex and made the cut look
open.
Soon we will have make up to use on the white
liquid latex to blend it with skin.

29. This was one of Jacks first wounds he made
on one of our extra actors. He used a layer
of liquid latex to create the size of the wound
and base layer. He then used tissue to make
the outline of the mould and built up around
it.
He then applied black gel pen and fake
blood to create a darker coloured blood. Also
mixed honey and red dye.
Link below shows a time-lapse of Jack
Phillipson creating a wound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gel4E2
N6sfA&feature=channel&list=UL

30. With our shots that we film we will be adding a few effects to them to create a
deeper atmosphere within our trailer.
We will be using a colour correction to give our shots a dull cool effect in them and
take out all the warmth which will give a cold almost dark effect in our final trailer.
We shall be using White noise and flickering TV distortion to add a broken type
feel to the footage.

31. This is a teaser poster for our film. And is one
of four we are going to make.
The poster ideas were taken from the films in
our previous slides. Our other 3 we are going
to make will have a age rating, release date
and more detail about the film. One poster
with the both of our characters on and two
separate poster with one of our characters.
The link below shows a time-lapse of how
Jack Phillipson made it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgIH9_Y
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32. We got the idea of using a handled
record camera from George A.
Romero's „Diary of the Dead‟ and we
also used the idea of having the camera
in the foreground and instead of the title
at the bottom we had ours at the top
with a sub heading below.
The idea of a camera in the centre
foreground also came from the film
[REC].