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.