The document outlines Elise Ogden's pitch for a horror/thriller film trailer project. She proposes exploring abandoned locations like a closed cotton mill or graveyard. Elise plans to study other horror trailers for conventions and use techniques like eerie music scores and children's lullabies to create tension. She will film with a DSLR camera and edit the trailer using GarageBand and iMovie software on a Mac. Elise seeks actors and equipment like a camera, tripod, and dolly grip to complete the project.

1. PITCH
E L I S E OGDEN

2. RESEARCH
• The genre of my trailer is going to be a horror/thriller
because I enjoy watching this genre most and have
ideas which I feel will look good in this genre and
are accomplishable.
• I will need to study other trailers to get most of the
horror conventions right to make sure it looks like a
horror/thriller type film.
• Looking at fonts also and sounds in trailers will also
help me to create a trailer fit for an October
screening!

3. PLOT IDEAS
• One of my ideas is to film the trailer in a
documentary type way following students from our
college who encounter some strange things
happening in a closed cotton mill they go to visit
one day.
• Another is to set my trailer in a grave yard, using
teens again as main characters.
• I want to aim for something more different so using
a weird location and not the boring old woods…
which is so repetitive will be avoided.

4. SOUNDTRACK IDEAS
• I will be using garage band to create my own
score/soundtrack… the score will be eerie.
• Rock music is often used in thrillers and horrors to
create tension and a loud atmosphere, also,
children's lullaby's are used to create a scary and
eerie feel to a trailer as it is the opposite effect-you’d
think it would sound cute and childish but in
reality it sounds very chilling!

5. LOCATION
• My idea for location is an abandoned place
(possibly a closed cotton mill which is in our area…
but I will need to see if I can definitely go in the
building)
• Graveyard
• Basement
• House

6. CINEMATOGRAPHY & EDITING
• Cinematography-
• Editing- The editing software I’ll use is garage band
to create my own soundtrack, imovie to put it
together…

7. WHAT I NEED:
• Actors:
Equipment:
• DSLR camera, tripod, mac (with editing software),
dolly grip.