Progress Diary

We are nearly ready to film, it might take us a couple of nights to complete filming as it gets dark very quickly. We will have to work quickly when we get to the location. It will have to be an afternoon/evening where we are all free and can film.

Teaser Trailer Plot and Full Film

This is the plot for the teaser trailer:

Three media students, a girl and two boys are going into the woods and foggy fields to create a video presentation for one of their subjects at school for their coursework. When they reach the location it is already getting dark, they all joke around and try scaring each other, the girl starts getting serious and angry that they are not getting any work done. They start filming and after a couple of shots of them laughing when being filmed the screen goes black, you can hear the laughter turning into screams and the next thing you see is one if the boys has collapsed, the two other students panic and try to wake him but he is unconscious they dont understand what has happened, while they are trying to wake him a mysterious attacker hits the boy who is filming and knocks him out, The camera drops and you can see the unconcious bodies lying on the floor, the female character screams at what she has seen and runs off, the attacker is still a mystery to the audience. Through the camera that is lying on the floor you see the girl running across the field to get away. The mystery attacker then picks up the camera that was dropped on the floor and starts fiddling with buttons, now as the attacker is holding the camera we can see the bodies still lying on the floor. The attacker then presses the power button and the camera dies. We will then have the title of the film.


The characters that are involved in the teaser trailer will not be present in the actual film, these are scenes that are not seen in the final film. They may be similar to the story line of the film but the characters change. The area they went to film in is normally quite popular for students to use for their coursework.

Title for Our Teaser Trailer

We have been thinking about the different titles we would like to call our teaser trailer, We quite like the short names that other films have that use handheld camera like Quarantine or Rec. We have been looking at the names of the films we have researched and using these to think of an idea we could use.

So far we have:
-Playback ( Referring to playing footage back on a camera and also it sounds like pay back which hints at someone maybe wants payback from the people in the film).

Time Management- Progress Diary

We have been thinking about certain characters we would like to include in our teaser trailer and the other elements such as location, costume, and props. We have also been thinking about what sort of script we would like to use, we will then need to plan what shots we are including and how they will be effective in our teaser trailer. So far we have decided that we would like to do a psychological horror, making our teaser very tense and keeping the audience scared.

Our Idea PowerPoint and Feedback

Our idea

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Script for our Teaser Trailer

There is not alot of speech dialogue there are more sound effects such as screams and laughter.


Amy: Lets film over here

Next Clip

Chris: This is our presentation (burst out laughing)

Next Clip

Lewis: Amy look behind you!

Amy: (Scared) Thats not funny

Next Clip

Chris: Come on we need to finish this today

Next Clip- ( They are laughing and joking over a black screen, the laughter then turns to screams) We then see Chris has collapsed on the floor

Amy: Chris, Chris are you ok? (Pushing Chris and trying to wake him up)

Lewis: Is he breathing?

(We then hear a thud and you cannot hear Lewis anymore, the camera drops to the ground and you see him collapse in front of it. From the view of the camera of the floor you see Amy screaming and running into the distance. As you see her dissappearing the camera then gets picked up by the mystery attacker and he fiddles with buttons and you can see Lewis' body on the ground as the attacker holds the camera and then it cuts off.

End

Character Profiles

There are three characters in our teaser trailer. A girl and two boys are making a film in the woods and foggy fields. Our characters are all teenagers and are making a film for their college work.

Amy- I will be playing the girl role in our teaser trailer, so she will look like me, such as blonde hair and wears normal clothes a teenage girl would wear.

Lewis- Lewis who is in my group with me will play the character that is filming what happens.

Chris- The last character will be played by our friend Chris, he will play the part of talking through the coursework with my character.

Research for our Teaser Components

Soundtrack research: We have been thinking about whether we need to include a soundtrack to our teaser trailer. Quite alot of the short teaser trailers do not use a soundtrack and just use dialogue and sound effects. We would like to include a soundtrack with a fast pace that makes the quick shots we are using look more effective. Costume and location research: Costumes in pyshcological horror are normally casual and everyday, in some cases they are very casual and are pyjamas. For our teaser trailer we will most likely follow this idea and use casual clothes as our characters are teenagers. They are going out filming in the winter so will most likely be wrapping up warm. For the location most horror genres are filmed in the middle of nowhere outside in the woods or in a lone house. The location and setting is normally a key element that helps create the sense of fear. After researching locations that are normally used in pyschological horror we have decided to film ours in a field nearby my house, another reason we have chosen this location is because the plot of our teaser trailer which will be filmed outside. We may also film some footage inside a house. Actors and props photos research: Psychological horror's normally include a stereotypical blonde that gets into trouble and her friends normally are killed off too. For example in Scream Drew Barrymore is this stereotypical blonde character that gets killed. She is also well known and a wide audience will watch films with well known actors in them. Our characters and actors include a blonde girl, a boy who is helping acting in there filming and the boy who is filming this, the actors will be me, Lewis who is in my group and our friend Chris. Props normally include weapons and objects that are used as weapons. These are normally emphasised and focused on which makes the audience uneasy. In our teaser trailer teh only prop we will be using is the camera which is being used to film our teaser trailer. Teaser Trailer Analysis Research: I have analysed afew teaser trailers of different genres and then some more of the genre we have chosen. After researching the components of a teaser trailer and what is needed it has given Lewis and I an idea of what we would like to include in our teaser trailer, it has also given us an idea of what not to show and what not to include.

Basic Shot Descriptions and chosen Idea

We have chosen to go with Idea 1 for our teaser trailer.

This is a basic shot description of the shots we are including in our teaser trailer.