Our trailer will represent a group of typical teenagers - two 17-year-old girls and a 17-year-old boy dressed in casual skinny jeans, t-shirts, and hoodies - who encounter a horrific situation while camping. To make the characters more authentic and relatable to a young audience, they will use typical teenage slang and swear words. Our masked killer will generally fit the stereotype of a slasher film villain carrying a weapon and creepy mask, but we plan to distinguish our killer by having them use an unusual weapon - a pair of kitchen scissors - to add an unexpected twist.

1. Horror Film Trailers
By Will Gilchrist, Courtney Thomas, Megan
Milum and Holly Gammage

2. Who does this trailer
represent? Social
groups, age, gender,
ethnicity? Who will you
represent in yours?

3. Our trailer will represent the ‘typical
teenager’, and how they respond to horrific
happenings.
The trio of 17 year olds will be dressed in
casual attire- skinny jeans, t-shirts and
hoodies.
We have chosen these costumes as we feel
that they represent the image of a
stereotypical teenager, and will create an
authentic atmosphere in relation to the
storyline (they are clothes that any teenager
would wear camping, so the story
immediately becomes more believable.)

5. Also, stereotypical features of a group of
teenagers will be included, such as the use
of swear words and slang.
Again, this would enforce the authenticity of
the characters, and would allow the
audience to relate to the language they are
using and the way that they speak.
By basing the characters on the target
audience, it will encourage young people to
come and see the film.

7. Our ‘masked killer’ will be stereotypical of
any slasher film, as it will be carrying a
weapon and wearing a ‘creepy’ mask.
However, we plan to make our killer slightly
different by simply altering the weapon he
will be carrying.
Usually, it would be a knife or even a saw,
but we will be incorporating a pair of kitchen
scissors as we feel this will add an
alternative element to an otherwise typical
slasher film.