• Eden Lake• Blair Witch Project• Scream 4

• Stereotypical characters• Sense of realistic setting (isolated)• Chase scene to build tension• Weapons (for the antagonist)

We had the idea of using local park ‘Boggart Hole Clough’ as it’s close to members of the group. It also has a range of places in the park we could use for filming of a trailer, and it also fits with the generic conventions to follow as it looks isolated. This choice of location also fits in with plot, Boggart Hole Clough looks like a realistic place for a camping trip to take place, and also serves as an ideal place for antagonist Stephen to carry out his revenge…in somewhere isolated.

Props• Camera (handheld) • Camping equipment

(torches/tents/bags)• Weapons: (for the

antagonist to plot his revenge) - Rope - Hammer - Newspaper

Costume• Everyday clothing to add a

sense of realism. For e.g. Jeans, hoodies, trainers.

• Antagonist all in black to reflect his ‘dark personality’.

} Realistic tools from ‘home’

• Trailer opens up with Stephen (the antagonist) looking through old photos, and produces a newspaper claiming teenage girl ‘Blair Albright’ committed suicide from bullying.

• Cuts to next shot of Stephen angry, with clenched fists, who then puts tools(from home maybe?) into a bag.

• From a hidden point of view (as though it’s Stephen from behind trees) we hear a group of girls setting up a camping trip and coming across the newspaper Stephen planted to then go on and mock it.

• Fast-paced chase scene including attacks (such as rope around the neck, chasing the girls etc.)

• As the trailer is coming to an end, we get the emotional side to the characters (one crying, one saying “I’m sorry, I’m sorry” etc.)

• Cuts to a black screen, and then we see Stephen’s face in torchlight as though he’s still in the woods, and then says “This is for you Blair” (revealing Blair was his sister).

The main character of the film. A typical popular teenager who is selfish and bossy, and chooses who her friends are. Also the reason for Blair’s death, and doesn’t think twice about how her selfish ways affect others.

The quiet one of the group who gets bossed around by the other two in the group, more from Alice. As she is the quiet one of the group, she is caught up in the bullying and death of Blair, but none of it is her fault, although she will be probably blamed.

The best friend of Alice, the one who follows Alice in everything she does and usually gets caught up with what’s happening. She contributes to bossing Chloe around, but only to go along with what Alice is doing.

After still not being able to get over his sister committing suicide because she got bullied, mentally unstable Stephen feels it is his place to go and serve the justice he feels is right, and takes the opportunity of the girls’ camping trip to do so.

We want to use torchlight in our trailer to go with the theme of the hand held camera an the camping trip.

We want to use the following shots:• Close-ups: To show facial expressions and things we want to focus

on –e.g. close up of newspaper to show Stephen has put it there• Medium shots: To show important elements of background we

want to focus on or setting.• Long shots: to get a sense of the whole action e.g. the girls

running away.

For sound in our trailer we want to build the tension and pace as it leads up to the chase scene which we will create on sound editing programs. We also want to keep with the handheld theme so we want diegetic sounds to be included such as wood snapping, winds and footsteps.

We have some ideas on how we want to edit our trailer. We want to tell the story/motivations of the antagonist through a montage sequence of a fast pace so we can emphasise the story and fit it well together with the chase scene we want to put next which will be very fast paced to create the tension and fear we intend to.

As a group, we like the idea of using a font such as this, as Chelsey used it on her poster, and we think it looks effective. We will add extra effects to it for our trailer, but keep the typography quite simple.

For the typography, we have decided to keep it at a minimal level, as to accompany the action in the trailer, we are having Stephen doing a voiceover to help tell the story and add to the atmosphere, and also conform to the generic conventions of horror trailers.

We decided our target audience for our film trailer would be most suitable and effective for the age range for 15-24. This is effective as from Pearl and Dean’s website, this age range has the most cinema attendances, and with this the most percent(33%) of people engage with cinema positively from a survey from Pearl and Dean.

As the plot of the film includes teenage characters going on a camping trip, this works well as a teenage/young adult audience will be familiar with the situation and hopefully understand the realism, which is what we want to scare the audience, and make them feel as though this could happen to anybody.

Also, with the nature of the trailer, which shows subtle violence (rope going around a neck) and the antagonist having purposes to attack, this is suitable for an audience of this age.