Planning The Location

Planning the Location

Location: My House – stairs, landing, bedroom and shower.

 

Why: I chose to set my location in my house as my storyline is about the house that the family move into that is haunted by the ghost of the murdered child. I also think that the bland colours and white and cream walls will give the trailer an asylum like feel which goes with my story of the teen being possessed.

When: I will be doing most of my filming at night as it fits in with my college day and when my actresses are available.

Other possible locations for trailer:

·         Burnham beeches – open spaces and woods

·         Garden – swings

Character Development And Actors

Character Development, Actors and Genre Conventions

Within my teaser trailer I want my character to appear zombie like and controlled, I would like her to have a black expression and to walk aimlessly in particular sections of my teaser trailer.  Her make-up will be heavy to make her eyes look sunken; this is to make her appear to be more frightening. I want to convert my trailer clips into black and white to give them an old time effect. I also want to use an eerie background track and a use of short fast clips which are commonly seen in other horror teaser trailers, these conventions, I feel, are needed to meet audience expectations.

For my teaser trailer I will use two actresses. The roles they will be playing are the possessed teenager and the ghost of the murdered child.

Character one: Raphaella de Morgan

Role in movie: Possessed Teenager

How important is the role in the movie: this is the most important character in the movie as she is the one that will begin to unravel the mystery of the child’s murder. For my teaser trailer she will be needed for most of the shots.

Character two: Beau Bryan

Role in movie: Ghost of Child

How important is the role in the movie: her character is slightly less important to the movie as she will not have to be present in most of the shots, but her character is important as she is the one possessing the teen. For my teaser trailer she will only be needed for one shot.

Music Plan

Music Plan

From my research of other horror teaser trailers I have learnt that the background music makes a big difference to the overall teaser trailer. For a horror teaser trailer to be successful the music has to cause tension within the audience, it needs to be eerie. For my teaser trailer I am only planning on using one sound clip.

Music website – http://freesound.org

Chosen track name: From Darkness

Link to music: http://www.freesound.org/people/nathanshadow/sounds/6859/

I used this music as it builds a lot of tension within the audience whilst watching my teaser trailer. It fits well into the film clips I have used.

Organisation Of Actors And Dates Of Filming

Organisation Of Actors and Dates of Filming

I am planning to do my filming on four separate dates. I am doing this to be able to edit my film properly to be able to achieve my desired teaser trailer outcome.

03/10/11 – as I am doing all my filming inside my house I have organised for my actress to come round for filming. I will set out my characters costume and then do her hair and make-up to suit my character specification, for this character I need the actress to have long dark hair and heavy eye make-up.  As my filming is all done inside the time does not matter and I will be able to do it after college even if it is dark.

13/10/11 – for this section of my filming I am going to use my little sister as my actress. My character specification for her character is her grey school dress and white polo for her costume and her long blonde hair to be slightly backcombed and messy and then to put some eyeliner around her eyes to make her eyes look dark and sunken. I can do this when I arrive home from college.

14/10/11- for the section of my filming I am just filming a rocking horse in daylight. I need daylight for this section as it makes it bright and stands out more to the audience.

01/12/11- this will be my final part of my filming and I will again organise for my main character to come round my house for filming. I will set out my characters costume and then change her hair and make-up for suit my character specification for her character.

Full Treatment

Full Treatment

Blurb

Perfect family, beautiful new home, but they’re not alone…

Statement Of Intent

I think I would be a good person to write and produce this film as I feel I have the ideas to produce a good quality horror movie.

Storyline

A teenage girl and her family move into a new home in a strange village surrounded by a forest, the girl and her parents and her little sister have only been living in their new home a few days when it becomes clear to the family that they are not the only people living in the house. Strange things start to happen and it is made clear by the presence that the family is not wanted in the house.

The girl becomes obsessed with what her and her family are sharing their new home with, she does her research into what other knew about her house but every story was different and nothing would prepare her for what was about to happen.

The girl then one day goes down stairs into the basement of the house to find a loose wood panel in the flooring, she lifts it up to find a box, and she opens it and inside it contains personal belongings from 50 years before. She finds newspaper articles of a young girl’s murder, this becomes too much for the girl and she passes out.

When the girl wakes up, she feels different, not quite herself, so she takes herself to bed thinking she’s not well. She makes up the next morning and she is not herself, she has been possessed by the little girl from the newspaper articles, the same little girl that had been there all along, the little girl who was murdered in that very house.

The mystery of the girl’s death remains a mystery to the girl’s family until that day when the girl starts the rein act what happened those 50 years before, and the worst part being, she was targeting her little sister to play the part of the murdered little girl.

Her family have to section the girl to keep their family safe, but is it too late?

The family are then sent on a mission to solve the mystery of the little girl’s murder to save their family and to move away. They do more research into the murder of the little girl and they find how it isn’t solved and nobody was ever caught. They find more and more evidence that leads to this one girl, the murdered girl’s older sister.

As the family solve the mystery and the woman is proved guilty of her sister murder, the girl’s spirit is able to move on and the family are able to move on and move away from the village. 

Draft Treatments And Titles

Draft Treatments And Title

Draft Treatment One

Plot

A young teen girl moves into a new house in a strange village surrounded by a forest. It soon becomes aware to the girl that her and her family are not the only people living in her house. The girl soon becomes obsessed with what is haunting her and her family until she becomes possessed by the little girl who died inside the house 50 years before. The child’s death becomes a mystery to the family until the teen girl starts to rein act what happened those 50 years before.

Ending

The murder mystery of the little girl’s death is solved by the family and her evil spirit moves on and the family move away.

Draft Treatment Two

Plot

A group of eight teenagers take a camping trip to new forest. They put up their tents make a camp fire and are having a good time, blissfully unaware of what is watching them from the surrounding forest. As darkness falls things start to go wrong, the fire goes out; the teens phones run out of battery or lose signal and all of their torches have had their batteries removed. The teens are stuck at their camp in the pitch black. One goes for help and when the rest hear the scream of that person, panic takes over and the teens start to go one by one. It then becomes survival of the fittest as they each battle what is hiding in the dark.

Ending

Day light breaks and there are only two teens remaining, but only one will survive.

Draft Treatment Three

Plot

A deranged killer goes on the loose in a small quiet town, no one is really sure as to what he is trying to achieve until one day when a teen boy starts to read his mind and becomes obsessed by what the killer is doing and then begins to act like the killer.

Ending

The family of the boy find everything he’s written down which are the killer’s thoughts and his plans and directions to bodies, that he had hidden in his room.

 Titles

·         Possessed

·         The darkness

·         The town

I have chosen to go with draft one ‘possessed’ because I think it will have the most dramatic influence and will be a good horror film.

My Choice Of Genre

My Choice Of Genre

Horror

I have decided to create a teaser trailer of the horror genre. Horror films seek a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of the supernatural. Horrors also frequently overlap with the thriller genre. Plots written using the horror genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, commonly coming from supernatural beings, and being put into the everyday world. Themes or elements often shown in typical horror films include ghosts, torture, gore, werewolves, ancient curses, Satanism, demons, vicious animals, vampires, cannibals, haunted houses, zombies and serial killers.

Horror movies are designed to scare the viewers and make them feel the sense of danger and tension. The thought of the supernatural appearing in modern day life is something that plays on people’s minds and can be put together with other horror movie conventions to make a good horror movie.