The planning of an amazing trailer !!

Production company: X111


Pitch: "The Forth Kind and Poltergeist meet Amityville Horror in the woods"
- Seeing things, Abductions, Influences, Mental.
- Demons, Torment/Torcher, Feeding off fear.
- Isolated, No technology, No support.


Scenerio:  "A teenage girl gets haunted and taken to the woods by a spirit. Her friends are possesed and killed and torment the girl"

"Haunted" being the prop paradigm as well as "possesed"
"Teenage girl", "friends" and "spirit" are the character paradigms
"woods" is the setting paradigm


Treatment:
Opens in the girl being in therapy talking about the haunting and the huge event (traumatic event), discussion with threapist about the ouija board. (time and date on recording) video goes static-earlier time and date with everyday life.
Her friends are at her house for a sleep over, chatting and giggling.
There is a bang going down the stairs and a picture of her and her friends is smashed at the bottom of the stairs. One of her friends freaks out and mentions the ouija board.
They go back into the bed room and fall asleep, once they are asleep ghost activity happens for a short while.
The Camera goes to black and there is the sound of a girl giggling and the girl wakes up in the woods with her friends. She blames her friends as she wakes them up.
then she starts to freak out once she knows its not her friends and so does one other, however the other friend is sitting there with her head down-there is a close up on her face and she is smiling and the sound of the giggle is heard again, made by her.
The others react to this but then she is back to normal.
A sequence of weird things happen (bussing)
One friend is possesed and tries to attack them, the girl and her other friend run away, the possesion then jumps (which is indicated by the giggle)
The teenage girl says for one night she will keep watch
She slowly starts to go mad, paranoid.
For awhile nothing happens-One of her friends does something small one night (finds a sharp object to show them) The others think she is possesed and is trying to hurt them- they accidentally kill her. They bury her and run away.
The next morning they hear a giggle, they are scared and a little girl appears with her family, they calm down and ask for directions - they get out of the woods.
The other friends ends up commiting suicide under possesion.
Close up of bloody hand, glass and picture of the friends together.
As the girl comes out of threapy her boyfriend meets her and as they walk together her giggles the same giggle she has heard throughout, she stops him and he dosnt understand what she is going on about.
(we know this is her boyfriend from a picture in her room and her and her friends talking)

"End"


Key Scenes: Therapy.
                    Sleep over - door moving.
                    Black screen "Giggle".
                    Waking up in the woods.
                    Possessed friend.
                    Bussing sequence - weird things happening.
                    Esculation of paranoia.
                    Digging.
                    Friend with sharp object.
                    Flashes of possessed friends.
                    Smashed picture.
                    Little girl skipping.

             (Scenes not in order yet)


Ideas for tone cards:


"Do you really know the consequences"
"Playing around with things you dont understand"


Location list:  Woods.
                        Inside the house.
                        Shot of the house in the woods.

Bussing Sequence

With this trailer we had to decide what sort of things we wanted to involve in our trailer, however the main technique to include was a bussing sequence. We decided to use a common bussing sequence with someone looking into a mirror then away and then having the camera looking away from the mirror and then back to it with someone there.
we used many short sequences and close ups to create a quick intense trailer and with quick cuts we tried to create a fast, heart racing sequence.
Of corse without the best technology we couldnt but we tried our best!
To improve the trailer i deffiantly would of made the editing slicker and faster with quicker cuts to enhance the mood of the trailer.
I believe the trailer does following the structual paradigms we have a helpess girl character running away in an abondoned school with a strange, scary character finding her.

Editing:

I found the editing quite hard at first, getting used to the different techniques that you can use and what buttons to press to create certain effects took awhile but it does deffiantly help make the trailer look more real.
To create this short trailer it took awhile because we found it hard to use the tools on the macs to create slow scenes and fast scenes, scenes that we wanted to cut and finding the correct place to cut bits so i think we are going to need alot more practice to get our final trailers done it time and to look the best that they can be.

Filming: Whilst we were filming we tried to follow the rule of one in three close ups so we focused on hands opening the door, close up of the face scared, doors opening, we tried to really create this intense sequence where the audience was constantly expecting something to happen.
We also used a mid shot and an over the shoulder shot of the bathroom door opening behind me which cuts to a close up of my face with the bathroom door still opening. We decided that this would create the idea of panic with a quick cut and something opening the door.
We used long shots of me running and trying to open doors. We also decided to film from my feet with me running away from the camera to the door trying to open it, we thought this would be a nice scene to use where the whole setting is included.

"A Perfect Getaway" - Official Trailer [HQ HD]

Cry Wolf - Theatrical Trailer

Film Report:

Title: Cry Wolf
Year: 2005
Director: Jeff Wadlow
Studio:
Screenplay: Beau Bauman

Conflict: Trying to spread a rumour to create fear in the school but they start to believe it themselves.

Complications: The rumour is starting to come true and it is happening to the people who started it.

Crisis: They are being attcked by "The Wolf" and no one believes them.

Climax: It is all a big joke and there never was a killer they were playing a trick on the new boy.

Paradigmatic Conventions:
Setting: A private school in Virginia, USA.
Props: Computeur, Weapons used in the rumour, Gun.
Characters: Friends (Owen, Dodger, Tom, Mercedes, Regina, Randall and Lewis) The Wolf (Villian)

Wolf Creek.TRAILER.2005

Film Report:

Title: Wolf Creek

Year: 2005

Director: Greg Mclean
Studio: Weinstein

Screenplay: Greg Mclean

Conflict: They are trying to back pack around Australia with their friends but the car breaks down on their way.

Complications: The Car Breaks down and they are in the middle on no where, however a man they do not know offers to tow them back to his camp to get the parts for their car.

Crisis: They awake to find themselves bound to the walls and some of them are being tortured they have been seperated and are trying to get away from this strange man.

Climax: there is no climax in the trailer.


Paradigmatic Conventions:
Setting: The out backs of Australia in a camp.
Props: Knives, Cars and sharp objects.
Characters: Two young girls and two young boys. A strange man who they dont know. (Villan) 

Halloween 2 (H2) - Official Trailer [HD]

This trailer is seen as a horror film becuase of its quick scene cuts showing a helpless girl running around screaming and shouting for help. We know the girl is helpless because her leg is wrapped in a brace and she is holding onto the sides of walls to help her walk around. The quick scene cuts create a sense of panic to the viewer as they are not given a clear vision of what is happening.
There is a non-diegetic sound of an man speaking through a voice over, he has a deep mysterious voice giving the viewer a short gist of the film, using words like "madness" and sentances like "birth of evil" and "terrifying legend" allowing the veiwer to have an un-nerving feel to the trailer.
The diegectic sound chosen from the film is "Hello" which is spoken by the young girl at the beginning of the trailer, this line also as an echoing effect which emphasises the fact that this girl is alone. Another line used is "he's stronger then ever" again giving an un-nerving feeling to the viewers and allowing them to create the impression that this evil cannot be stopped.
At one point in the trailer there is a moment of silence with just the image of a girl in a bathroom with this evil man behind her this creates suspense and alomost the equivalent of an viewer holding their breath in shock as they watch this.
Throughout this trailer the scenes we are shown are dark are scenes of walls covered in blood and mud playing on the known fear of the night. The music also used in this trailer is low tempoed and eary but then can change to a quick beat to emphasise the chase scenes in the trailer. Although the music is used a constant scream, bridged from scene to scene to keep the constant idea of fear and helplessness in the viewer.