2. Why I chose the title Paranoia
The reason I chose paranoia as it fits the role of one of the characters (
Amelia Patel) who essentially would actually be the main protagonist.
Amelia Patel is also the cautious one – I found this concept in
Halloween Resurrection where protagonist was the one who was the
worried and cautious one amongst her peers, and her peers essentially
lead her into trouble with psychopath Michael Myers.
Also I chose the name paranoia as its powerful and entices the
audience to actually want to watch the movie.
The title paranoia would also go well with the mise-en-scene as i
would be filming in the woods, and woods are usually a large and
intimidating place – and it potentially scares people.
3. Narrative
Seth, Dorian and Huey convince their female friends to camp in the
forest with them, as because these boys are relatively cool, the female
friends agree. The Boys Get Ready and Meet the girls, at the forest they
decide to play games and share secrets like what ordinary teenagers do.
What they don’t know is something is lurking in the woods, watching
their every moves.
Amelia the cautious one backs out of what her friends get up to but starts
walking around and recording nature as well as her friends, she zooms
in and identifies a man with a chain dress in all black!
She screams and her friends start mocking her scared ways. Dorian takes
the camera and tries to spot what she has seen but don't find anything,
the camera is given back to her, and as she records again the same thing
happens. Eventually they split (Boys with boys & Girls with Girls)
4. Trailer
Looking at other horror trailers, I been able to essentially pick up a few
ideas, such as editing technique.
The editing in horror trailers are quite fast pace, as it increase tension, the
directors also use this as the view has inadequate information on what’s
going on – and this can also be linked to the gratification concept.
In my trailer many shots would be Point-Of-Views therefore attempting the
place the audience in the shows of the protagonist, this is also a method used
in Cloverfield & Paranormal activity.
Sound also plays a major role in horror trailers such has an individual
panting, the essentially this could be used to signal something going wrong
e.g. A black screen but something breathing heavily.
The idea of my trailer due to limited resources with feature fast pace editing,
a soundtrack which would play at the beginning and the use of lighting.
5. Props
• Fake Blood – this is used in many horror movie, this is a cliché.
• Video Camera to create Point of view shots
• Trees/Grass – nature is a prop as it has to be selected to be appropriate.
• Mask & Long coat for the psychopath – the long coat would be used to
• Bags – to make the filming natural as their students, books and clothes
would be packed in the bag.
• Glasses – Dorian and Amelia wear glasses
• Books – used to create a sense of realism/ Amelia brings her school books
to study.
• Torch Light – used to show dialog between character
6. Available Options
• State the alternative strategies.
• List advantages & disadvantages of each.
• State cost of each option.
7. Recommendation
• Recommend one or more of the strategies.
• Summarize the results if things go as proposed.
• What to do next.
• Identify action items.
