Idea 2 for Psychological Horror

We have thought about other ideas we could use for our teaser trailer as we cannot decide what to include. Lewis had an idea which used a blinking effect, that you were looking though someones eyes and seeing what was happening and when they blink the scene changes, We looked on adobe premiere elements which is what we will use to edit our teaser trailer and there was no special effect that we could use to create it. His idea involved a character male or female was doing every day activites like working and being at home but when he blinked he could see a shadowed figure in a dark field, he blinked again and was back to normal day life, but when he blinked after that the shadowed figure was closer. This is a rough idea of what we could do.

Idea 1 For Psychological Horror

A group of students are making a film for one of there courses at school. When they decide to film it is dark and foggy, they walk through fields and woods. They joke at scaring each other while filming, shows documentary footage of them talking about what they are going to do and joking about someone coming to get them. The screen goes black and laughter turns to screams. the camera is dropped on the floor and you can see someone sitting on the floor cowering and crying. She reaches for the camera and says something like someone help me. They camera is dropped and she is dragged away from the camera and the screams continue of the black screen.

Characters-

• Girl who gets attacked
• Boy filming
• Other boy filming

Location-

Outside, on a field. Dark and foggy. Like location images below

Other Location Ideas

We have been thinking about more location ideas for our teaser trailer. We still have not got a final idea so thinking of locations could help.

Time Management- Progress Diary

I have been researching horror teaser trailers to get inspiration to add to our idea. I have also added YouTube videos to show the difference in content between them all. So far we have made progress in deciding ideas and preparing to film.

Psychological Horror Films

Questionairre for Horror Genre

This is the questionnaire we will ask people of different ages about the horror genre. I will then show the results later.

Location Ideas

We have been thinking about location ideas for creating our teaser trailer. Lewis and I thought maybe the location we used for our first film, the lake and the woods. Another location we thought we might use is a dark room in a house and either use it as a dark room for a location or use text to make it seem like another location, for example "they entered the woods", but we would be filming in the room. As our idea is only a draft idea we need to think about what places could work with the idea and if any changes are made they wont affect the location or idea.

These are images from the lake and the woods from our year 12 opening sequence location. We may be using this for our location in our teaser trailer.

What we would like to do for our Teaser Trailer

Lewis and I have come up with a vague idea of what we would like to create for our Teaser Trailer, we think the teaser trailers like Buried, Up and Blair Witch Project are very effective and we would like to make one like this, little footage but the footage being very effective.

The genre will be horror, but pyschological horror. The story lines that have inspired us are The Strangers, Scream and Wolf Creek, horrors that include real people instead of fictional characters such as montsers or aliens. These films are effective as they involve the audience more as these things that happen in these films could happen in real life. We like the idea of the pyscho people who target a person or a group of people.

Another factor we would like to include is the effectiveness of using handheld camera, we would like the scene to be like Blair Witch Project, Quarantine and Cloverfield that use handheld camera to show the story.

Mood Board- Weapons and Scenes from Horror films

Poster Research

Here I have shown a range of teaser posters for the horror genre, for one of our ancillary tasks we have to create a teaser poster for our teaser trailer.

Most of the teaser posters are very simple, with a clear image and text that shows the horror genre, the images are very central and mainly of people with blood on them or characters that are relevant to the story. The images are quite disturbing, for example for the film called the Eye, there is a picture of an eye wide open with a hand coming out of it, these sort of images make your skin crawl and very clearly show the genre.

Quarantine Teaser Trailer

Quarantine is more of a gore horror, because there are endless amounts of blood and people who have caught some disease, these types of films where people become infected are quite common, the only difference between these films is the way they become infected.

I have chosen to look at this teaser because I like the use of the handheld camera, and we see it all as if we were there looking at what is happening, this is scary because it involves the audience more and they see eveything even closer as the scary things happen right infront of the audience faces. I also like the use of the night vision in this teaser, it is very effective and spooky as there is a sense of unknown, what is in the dark room behind the people and keeps the audience on the edge of there seats as they do not know whether something is going to jump out of th darkness. I think the way this teaser ends with the girl being dragged into the darkness os very effective.

Disturbia Trailer

I have included the Disturbia Trailer as I could not find a teaser trailer.

This trailer shows the genre, by the use of blood, thrill and weapons shown.

This is typical of a horror because it has the neighbour is the killer but no one believes the boy/girl that have got into trouble. I have chosen to add this trailer to my research because i wanted to include a range of different types of horror films. Aswell as a horror this trailer hints that it has a bit of a romance, boy meets girl type story, many horrors have this hint of romance where one minute you think your watching a rom com but then someone gets murdered, these type of horrors have more of a female audience because of the storyline.

Blair Witch Project Teaser Trailer

This teaser trailer is different from other teaser trailers as it shows reviews from people saying things like "scarier than the Exorcist". These quotes are not normally used in teaser trailers but normally are used in trailers. Which would make this teaser trailer in between being a teaser and a trailer. It is the short enough length to be a teaser.

This teaser trailer is very simple and is quite similar to the Buried teaser trailer. For quite along time of the teaser there is a black screen and then some short footage at the end, a difference would be that at the beginning there is text that gives an idea of what the film will be about, which normally teasers are not meant to show.

The Strangers- Teaser Trailer

This is the Strangers teaser trailer, I have decided to analyse this teaser because it is a good example of a psychological horror. It includes the stereotypical horror factor of a couple alone in a house in the middle of nowhere, it is night and they are being targeted by a group of people who enjoy killing people. This film has a great effect on the audience as it says it is based/inspired on true events which makes the story feel even more realistic.

This is very similar to the type of horror we would like to create.

Chosen Genre

The genre we have chosen for our Teaser Trailer is Horror. We are mainly focusing on a component to horror films which is commanly used, this area is psychological horror.

Definition of psychological horror:

Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that relies on character fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound effects, relevant music and emotional instability to build tension and further the plot.

Psychological horror uses real characters such as people killing people, not monsters or aliens killing the people in the story. These are normally very realistic. Location within the genre is normally very important in creating realsim for example a house in the middle of nowhere.

Films that use this genre are:

The Strangers
The Uninvited
Scream
Wolf Creek
The Others
Disturbia

Films that use this genre but also include gore which is not highly used in these films are:

Wrong Turn
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Hills have Eyes
House of Wax
Quarantine

Genre Mood Board- Psychological Horror