Theories

• Our film trailer follows the first part of 'Todorovs narrative structure'. Both the equilibrium and disequilibrium are applied to it, although a new equilibrium isnt reached. By doing this the plot of the film is not given away too much so is only seen in the actual film and not trailer to keep a narrative enigma. By leaving the audience wanting to find out more about the narrative,it increases the likleyhood of them spending money to see the feature length film.
• Karl Marx says there are certain dominant ideologies which are natural and maintained by those in power, the ideology of a horror film is stereotypically that theres a male killer, a brunette inocent final girl and a sexually active scream-queen all of which our film trailer has. By anchoring these elements of the theory into our trailer we are able to simultaniously anchor the genre for the audience.

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Final Poster

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  We started off with an original image of the girl stood in the shower and the guy stood behind her with a knife, hinting to the audience that he is about to kill her, this is also a narrative enigma due to the fact that we dont actually know who the guy is stood behind the girl as through the actual trailer we don't know who the killer is either.
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  After some audience feedback we decided that we should incorporate some more images from the film trailer in with the image we already had. We thought it would be a good idea to put all of the six main characters faces, faded into the picture to help establish who they are but also to make the audience question who the killer actually is.
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  The main image in the poster is a reference from 'The Dark Knight' film poster as the joker is stood behind a piece of glass with some writing on the glass, in the effect of blood. We had hoped to achieve this. by writing our film title on the glass door to the shower.
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  Another reference to our main image is the famous shower scene from 'Psycho' which will help establish the genre to the audience as an audience for horror films are likely to be familiar with the shower scene from 'Psycho'. This image also shows the girls vunerability.
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  We put two reviews in the poster, 'The Sun' we put in because it is a well known newspaper and will be easy for an audience to relate to. The other film review we put is was from 'Fangoria' we chose this because it is related to the genre of horror so we felt it would work well.
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  We chose the release date for our film carefully. We decided to choose the next friday 13th which happens to fall in August of next year. 'Friday 13th' is a well known horror film and people seem to suggest that bad things happen on Friday 13th therefore we felt that this date would be appropriate for a release of a new horror film.
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  The iconography within this poster are the hoody as this is used throughout the film trailer by the Ex-boyfriend as well as the killer which suggests that he is the killer and also the knife which is the murder weapon throughout the film from which all the characters are killed therefore it plays an important part in the film and it could signify blood and death.
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  We chose a serif font which is a convention of horror and we felt is appropriate for the writing to be red which could also signify blood.
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  Our production logo is in the bottom left hand corner of the poster and we linked our logo in with the shower scene as we felt it worked well with our poster and our genre.

Soundtrack

• We've found a two composers who we've worked with to develop a soundtrack suitable for our film trailer, using 'Dance Ejay' a keyboard and 'Cubase'.
• We worked with our first composer Edward Wilson to develop the keyboard basic tune, we then chose a small vocal from 'Dance Ejay'.
• Next we worked with Keith Anderson to incorporate thse 2 individual soundatracks to merge on a programme called 'Cubase', where we added some extra Dum beaats as a result of audience feedback; as some of the audience feedback thought it a little too classical on its own, they were however happy with the end soundtrack and thought it worked well; both with the genre of horror and our film trailer.
• We have an intertextual link in our soundtrack heared in one of our later consistant drum beats, to the first 'Friday the 13th' film which also has a cast of mainly teens, some of which are sexually active, it was also a suitable choice as we were aiming at the same kind of target audience; 'low budget horror film to teens'

Rough Cuts

We took some original footage of some shots that we thought would work. This is a clip of these shots.


After receiving some audience feedback we felt it was apporopriate to go away and take some re-shoots of some different footage that we thought would look good. Below is a clip of some of the shots that we re-took or added in as we needed some extra shots to help establish the narrative better to the audience as some of the feedback was that they couldnt quite grasp the narrative.


This is some of the extra shots that we took after receiving some audience feedback on our initial sample scene.

Final Proposal

• About a couple who are together, both very popular and seem to work well together. The girl in the relationship (sarah) is a very bright girl and does very well at school despite her busy social life.
• The couple have a very close set of friends, a few girls and a few guys who always 'hang out' together after school and on weekends. Sarah has her close friend (Hannah) who are almost inseperable. Apart from Sarah having her friends from her own group she also has friends outside of it, one of which is a geeky, less popular guy (Ben I) who seems to be struggling at school ( so we think) therefore Sarah offers to help him with his studies by becoming his own personal 'tutor'.
• As Sarah starts to tutor the geeky, less popular guy her boyfriend (Ben C) starts to get quite obsessive and some what protective over his girlfriend. The couple start to have major arguments over silly little things which leads to Sarah deciding she can no longer carry on her relationship with him.
• After Sarah sends ben C a text 'Its Over' strange things start to happen and Sarah starts to feel as though she is being watched/stalked but she doesnt know who by. She suspects its her Ex boyfriend as she knows he became very obsessive, when she bumps into him at the corner shop think convinces her even more that it is him watching her.
• Sarah starts to recive notes and gifts from an anonymous sender. Sarah tells her friends she is scared and doesnt know what to do but after finds that one by one her friends are being murdered, one is a bath, one whilst walking home and one while watching TV.
• Sarah doesnt quite know what to do now, while watching TV she thinks what her next move should be, whether that be telling her parents or even the police....
• While watching TV she senses that someone could be in the house but tried to put this thought out of her head and carries on watching TV.
• The geeky, less popular guy (Ben I) is stood behind sarah with a knife as sarah turns around he tries to calm her down but she runs and hides herself in another room down stairs. Ben I doesnt know where she is so he seeks her all over the house, starting upstairs, getting closer and closer to her.
• Lucky for Sarah her Ex boyfriend decides to pop around seen as her parents arnt in and he is worried about her as she has been acting strange with him due to the watching, notes and gifts she suspects he has been sending her.
• Sarah decides to make a run for the front door to find her Ex boyfriend stood outside, she tries to explain to him what is going on but he cannot understand what she is saying.
• They soon end up hiding and calling the police, the geeky, less popular guy is now looking for Sarah outside, after a bit more of 'hide and seek' the police arive and the geeky, less popular guy ends up being sent to a mental hospital.

Initial sample scene and audience feedback

This is our initial sample scenes.


Audience feedback:

• Shots were too long
• needed more killing scenes
• more scenes to put audience in suspense
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