My A2 Media Trailer Idea! :D

1. Danielle Palmer 

2.  Well, for a start the genre of my trailer is a blend of
four genres; Fantasy, tragedy, romance and a drama!
 I LOVE FANTASY FILMS! So had to express that
creatively through this trailer. The fantasy element of
the trailer is the ‘two worlds’; the ‘dark’/‘demonic’ or
‘spiritual’ world and ‘reality’... The second ‘fantasy’
element (or supernatural) would be the protagonist
being a supernatural being of whom bad things
happen to and who does bad things to others (though
she did originally try to bring light to peoples lives).

3.  You could say that a ‘tragedy’ branches off from drama, so I’ll use
this one slide for both!
 I love a good cry during a film, and tragedy films are said to
‘emotionally cleanse’ you; well, it definitely feels like that
sometimes... And a drama is basically ‘life with all the boring bits
cut out’ though I personally like to call it ‘making a bad
experience into a good story’.
 And in this case, my protagonist will have the honour of making
all these dramatic choices and mistakes so you won’t have to
(unless you want to!)
 In the case of my trailer, the tragedy elements happen when she
kills her husband/lover and starts to lose herself (just after she
thought she ‘found herself’)
 The drama is seen throughout the story, especially with the
protagonist’s suffering and isolation.

4.  I’m a romance freak, and would make any excuse to get
a saucy spark going between two characters. So here
we are with this genre!
 In this ‘plotline’ it has heavy romantic elements, but to
be honest, it’s more of a ‘self discovering’ story with
more tragedy than romance. Since I’m looking at the
IMPACT the romance made on the protagonist,
especially the consequences of her murder (or however
you’d want to call the method of ‘killing her husband’...
You’ll understand that later on)

5.  If this trailer was of a real film, the film would
probably be a 15 because of the mature content of sex
and violence as well as psychological issues. BUT!!!
Since this is a trailer (and I need to keep in mind what
is ‘appropriate’ and what I’m ‘comfortable’ with
showing) I could only show so much of what would
happen. For example, there won’t be any inappropriate
content in a sexual nature in the trailer; if anything,
things may be verbally suggested or in other subtle
ways.

6.  A Succubus (a female demon who has sex with men to drain their
life force) named ‘Senara’ does what is required of her kind in the
demon world, yet, she one day watches a couple IN LOVE and is
inspired by them. She wants that. She wants to know what it’s
like to be HUMAN and to actually FEEL emotions.
 She rebels against the conventional ways of her kind and is
banished to the human world, cursed that she’d live her
immortal life, but will fall in love many times and she’d always
live beyond their life times; making her heart-broken
innumerable times (causing her to stress out to the degree that
she’d grow old the way humans would?).
 She doesn’t care and goes for it. She disguised herself as a human
as she usually would and found the wonders of life and how it is
to ‘feel’ good things. She does fall in love with ‘the one’ BUT
since she’s still a Succubus deep down, she knew (maybe it
happened before a few times) that if she was to ‘make love’ with
him, she’d probably kill him (‘the most dangerous STD’ as one
once said as a joke...)

7.  I don’t quite know if she did it after a steamy argument
with him, or if she simply ‘succumbed’ to her succubus
ways, but she did make love with him and he died the
next morning.
 She goes mad after killing him from the guilt and heart
ache and obvious reasons, her conscience fighting with
her. She goes into isolation.
 She ages from ‘young’ to ‘old’ in a short time span and
dies. But she doesn’t just die, nor does she ‘burn in
hell’ because of her wrongdoings, but returns to her
husband in peace in the next life (or dies as a human if
you prefer that interpretation) since she grew a
conscience and did love in her life.

8.  It’d be like an account of her life; in the ‘present moment’
in the trailer she’s in isolation, talking to herself (or
audience, or another character) about what she did.
 A large aspect of the trailer though would be the an
‘embodiment’ of what’s going on in her head. In this case
she’d see the 7 Deadly Sins of her mind trying to tear her
into different ways of life and turning on each other. In this
way it turns a little bit into ‘Alice In Wonderland’ when her
mind and reality fuse into one.
 And yes, an aspect of this scenario happens in a forest with
the ‘Sins’ going a little bit crazy (but in a very
choreographed way), but it’s appropriate with symbolism
in mind, and not done because ‘erm, I’ll have it in a forest
‘cause I don’t know where else’.

17.  I personally had a message that I wanted to get across in this
story. This message became more and less prominent as the story
ideas filtered down, (and it could be said to have MANY
messages) but I personally wanted to show how people label
others unfairly and the pressure that comes from that.
 For example, Senara as a Succubus would’ve been stereotyped to
be a slut and a murderer. In our reality we may stereotype others
in particular ways because of dumb mistakes they’ve done
(maybe they decide to continue making these mistakes because
it became a part of their identity; since others label them as what
they do). This story fights against judging others and labelling
others, seeing we could all make these stupid mistakes, and
seeing that ‘a leopard can change their spots, and actually, this
one has got a new coat’.