2. Within this presentation I will be presenting some basic ideas of three possible
ideas of trailers. I will also be gaining feedback from my chosen target audience for
my chosen trailer. I will provide a brief description, what I like about the trailer and
why I did or didn’t choose it.
3. Possible Trailer 1 -
The outline of this film is based on a group of friends who plan on breaking in on
their local school after rumours of the school being haunted. They all plan on
staying in the school for the whole night where they investigate different areas of
the school and conduct a séance to make contact with the spirit and see if the
rumours are true. As their night progresses it becomes evident that they are not
the only ones in the school and weird things start happening. One by one each of
the friends begin to go missing and getting out of the school becomes harder and
harder.
I liked this idea based on the idea of it focusing on students and turning a school
environment into something creepy. I believe it would be appealing for students,
as there are always rumours of ‘ghosts’ and ‘strange happenings’ within schools.
Although I decided not to use this idea based on the school always being busy with
other students and it being hard to shoot based on the timings of day. This means
it wouldn’t be creepy enough and there were to many distractions.
Characters – 4-6 students and 2 other characters to act as the spirits.
Possible film names – Lost in the dark / Alone
Setting – Grace Academy Darlaston
4. Possible Trailer 2 -
Trailer 2 is based on a film where a group of bullies at a school physically and mentally
torture a female student know as Amy at their same school. So much so that the girl
writes a suicide letter, heads out to a local forest and is never found again. No one
knows if she's alive, she died or someone abducted her. The guilt stricken bullies
decide to head out to the forest where she went missing and find Amy. It then
becomes apparent that someone is hunting the 4 bullies down. Is it Amy or is it
Amy's killer?
I liked the thriller storyline of this possible trailer as I believe it would build suspense
during the creation. Again it is also includes students within the film, meaning it
would appeal to my chosen target audience. Although I decided not to chose this
trailer, based on the development of this storyline in the next slide. I believe I have
made the storyline more of a horror genre, not just focusing on thriller like this
possible trailer. I want to include suspense and horror.
Characters – 4 students,1 character to play Alice,1 mystery character.
Possible film names – Innocence
Setting – Grace Academy Darlaston and a forest area.
5. Possible Trailer 3 -
Trailer 3 is based on 2 girls who have arranged a forest party in the
middle of no where, where they are going to camp for the night. Although
rumours suggest that a mystery stalker roams the forest killing innocent
people who cross his path. Both girls get lost in the forest and begin
to realise that someone is watching and following them. The night is
fast approaching and no escape is known. The stalker is hunting these
girls down and they can't escape. He manages to capture both girls. Know it’s up to them
to survive and escape the torture.
The reason I liked this possible trailer was based on it focusing on both a horror and
thriller genre. I believe the horror will involve individuals who like the concept of a film
that includes, killings, injuries etc. The thriller genre will then involve those who love
suspense, twists and those who want to know more about the storyline.
Based on this, Trailer 3 would be my chosen trailer to film.
Characters – 2 girls to play Jasmine and Alice. 1 character to play stalker.
Possible film names – Paranoid
Setting – Range of forest and park area's.
6. Possible Trailer
The drafting of my trailers all consist of horror and thriller genre's. I have chosen
to let people around the same age as myself to choose which trailer I should
create. This is based on the target audience and I believe they should have in put
in which is the most interesting. I did not just want to use my own personal
opinion, I wanted to included others.
I have copied each description of the three possible trailers and asked around 30
students and family members to read each section and the choose one choice and
write their preferred option.
I then counted up the results to find that -
Trailer 1 - 9
Trailer 2 - 5
Trailer 3 – 16
Based on these results I chose Trailer 3. Feedback I received explained they would
find trailer 3 more interesting and they wanted to know more information about
the stalker. Other feedback consisted of the participants liking the suspense and
horror build up.
