Script.

1 - Establishing shot [2/3 seconds]

2 slow/ long shots showing the car from the outside (Diegetic sound of pop music) [1/2 seconds]


(Sound bridge)


3 - Mid shot of characters laughing, looking happy and having fun, breaking alcohol (stereotypical view). (fast paste shots) [5/6 seconds]


Mandy - "They'll be there when we arrive right?"


Pandey - "yeah"


4- Black fade out transition Titles [From the makers of The Woods and Intrusion]

Black fade in transition- car turning into location, (long/medium deep focus shot) revealing the name of the camp site location (black fade out transition)

- (Fade in transition) Match on action of character getting out of car and looking at the area (only 2-3 seconds duration). (Music stops suddenly) [2 seconds] (Then fades out)


Arrive in woods


5 - Bags drop on floor - loud thump (big effect on audience) [1 second]


6 - shots of them laughing, sitting around a camp fire, drinking and laughing. [4/5 seconds]


7 - Black transition. [8/9 seconds]


- Diegetic sound bridge of antagonist on phone. Complete black screen (creates enigma)


Voice on phone: “Help me... someone... Help me (panting crying whimpering voice)"

Mandy: “Jack, what's happening... where you are?" (Concerned voice)

Voice on phone: “Help me... (Heavily breathing, muffled) ...please someone ... help me, they're coming"

Mandy - " Where are you!?" (Panicking voice)" Who's coming?" (Panicked voice)


Voice on phone - (gasp)”They’re here” (Panicked voice) scream...

Phone Cuts off (dial tone) (Black transition lasts for 2-3 second for suspense)

-Diegetic sound of heavy breathing through gas mask

Fast pace editing begins:

Light behind three antagonists flashes on screen, revealing silhouette of them.

Shots of people getting dragged, hiding behind trees, screaming, axe hitting against things, knife dragged against the wall. All these shots fastening up so fast the screen goes black.

Diegetic noise of a lighter flicking- Girl appears, flame goes out.

Diegetic noise of the lighter flicking again, girl appears but closer as the camera is continuing zooming inwards and towards the girl. Flame goes out

Diegetic noise of the lighter again, close up of girl face, flame stays light, and girl looks to the left. While she does that, gas mask antagonist face is revealed behind. Diegetic sound of the flame being blown out. As this happens screen goes black.

Title of film fades on to black background 'Betrayal'

Interviews

Here are a few interviews of potential candidates which could be the actors within our film trailer. It's a good idea to interview actors so as directors, producers and cinematographers, we can not only witness their acting skills and ability, but also to see their personality. This would tell us how well they will work with other and myself, as the director of the trailer. As you can see we have only chosen a few interviews to show as we thought we should show the a few difference between actors we interviewed. These actors are all different; some more confident than other, and more innocent looking/approaching then others. This would give us a good idea of what our protagonists could look like and allows us to see if they suit the part (protagonist or antagonist). This means we can create an image of what our characters can be

We decided to hold auditions for both genders as we believe that the trailer should be mix gender as it would be more realistic, but more relatable. It would be more relatable as it would the females can associates themselves being in the same situation as the female protagonists; therefore the males would associates themselves with the male protagonists. This means that the popularity of our trailer would hopefully be high as it appeals to both genders, a wider and broader audience

From this process it means we can seek out the perfect actors to suit our characters, therefore making our trailer as high quality as we can. 

Day One Of Filming

Schedule; 
.. 11.30am - Arriving at Charlottes house to discuss our ideas and what we will film for that   day.
..12.00am - Left to get to our filming location.
..12.25pm - Arriving at our location to start filming.
..1.30pm - Finished filming for the day. 

Software research

Software Research

This software research was also used to decide what software to use when doing our AS blog as well as what soft ware to use for our A2 blog. The type of software we use during the editing process is a vital part to achieve a high standard opening two minutes, as we need to understand the whole programme, from the cutting shots to the precise point to knowing how to arrange them. This is important so we can benefit from all the technology provided from the editing software.

Microsoft Movie Maker

This is an example of an editing software which we could use for producing our film. Movie maker is made by microsoft, which, as you know, a very well known company and is very user friendly as it should appeal to all ages interested within media and producing films. This software makes you be the editor, with no complicating buttons and techniques needed. Movie Maker also ensures that photos and videos are imported quickly and at the highest and clearest resolution, so the images are clear, avioding buffering and blurriness. It also enhances your movie by providing ready made themes and audios, which could be used for different genres of film and videos, which give us ideas of what kind of music we need and which would suit with the shots we take. Finally, once our movie is ready, we can share it online on Facebook, YouTube or other social networking and video sharing sites, and if neccessary we can send a link of our movie in an email so we can transfer our production to each other to do some editing and to make all our ideas come alive. There are many aspects of this software which may be ideal for producing our film such as the transitoin elements and havign ready made horror music if we needed it. However this software is fairly ammateur, meaning there isn't as much variety of transitions, sounds, cutting techniques etc, which could be a problem.

Adobe Premiere Elements 10 Another software which we could use for creating our film is a software called 'Adobe Premiere Elements 10', which from the title of it is made by 'Adobe'. Although this software is another editing software like Microsoft Movie Maker, this is software is aimed for making and creating videos and films, which is more of an advantage using this software. This software also gives you a more clearer timeline with audio and soundtracks below so you can line the shots and the music precisely together. It also has much more advance effects such as the stabilizer effect, which keeps shots still if they are shakey when they are not meant to be. This may benefit us as we want to make our opening two minutes as best as we can so a more advanced software would aid us for doing this, right? This may not be true as it makes the process a lot more complicated as there is more techniques you can use, meaning more complication. However this software includes a range of transitions, effects, cutting proceses etc, which would definitely benefit in producing our film.

Avid film editing software

This software is a very advance but effective piece of film editing software which is used broadly at universities and lower independent film institutions. This software allows you to explore and exploit your creativity as it provides a range of advanced editing tools and effects, allowing you to produce a high quality production.  The software provide power and precision within all work therefore would be ideal for our production. However, the only negative feature to this software is that it is extremely expensive; both for the full package or pay monthly. This therefore would mean it would be very hard to find the availability for this resource, making the other software more beneficial for us. Although we cannot get our hands on this software, in the future I would be looking to invest in software such as this, as it allows you show your creativity.

Software used

In the end we used this software as it was the most suitable software we could use and excess. To edit our clips together and to make our movie run smoothly we used the editing software called Adobe Premiere Elements 10. We decided on using this as one of our editing softwares because it is what many professionals use when they edit movies, this gives us the experience of a real movie editor and what they have to do to achieve what they achieve.

The effects on this movie editor are acceptable for our genre of movie because they able you to control how the lighting and sounds are e.g. the volume; because our movie is a horror we like to experiment with these things to create tension and fear when you are watching it, making it beneficial for us as editors. Some of the clips had unwanted scenery in them so we tried to figure out a way to remove it; cropping the clip the same way you crop an image was the best way. We explored the editing software to enable us to find the right tool to crop our clip, we managed to find one which brought us to realise how advanced this editing software really is.

Overall this is an ideal application to use to edit our film as it makes the finished project look professional and neat, it is also easy to use which is necessary because we are unexperienced movie editiors. The range of transitions, effects and sounds makes it fun to use. The only bad thing about this software is that they lack a choice of titles and fonts to create the theme for your project, because of this we decided to look at different editing software to create our titles and fonts. We thought that IMovie had a lot of possibilities for our movie as it lets you decide on many fonts and use ones your have downloaded from the internet etc.

Makeup tutorial - dirty nails.

Firstly I removed all coloured nail varnish to ensure that we gain the correct colour for this effect. The first material you add is clear nail varnish. in which will protect our nails from the dark paints as I didn't want to stain my nails. You can use fake nails if you want so you can gain a jagged nail, however, I thought that I will use my own nails so that it will be more realistic therefore keep the continuity of our trailer consistent and believable.

These are the main colours I used; black, dark brown, orange/yellow, and red. I chose these colours as they would create a dirt soil like colour when I blended them onto my nail, which will occur within the upcoming stages of this tutorial. I used a fine tipped paintbrush to apply these paints so I did not go over the nail to much as I was going to do this later.

I used the black paint to underline each base of my nails so this would act as if the dirt as has been wedged firmly under them. This would suggest that the protagonist's desparation in trying to escape, but from what or who?
Once I added the black underline, I dampened the paintbrush in water, which I used to slowly smudged the black paint up the nail. This created a weaker black colour, which would aid me into rendering other colours to therefore create a dirt colour on my nails.

The forth stage, consists of using a blunt scalpel, which I ensured was blunt as I didn't want to cut under my nail. The dipped it in hot water and dabbed the tip of it into black and brown paint. I then carefully placed the blunt scalpel under each nail, therefore transferring the paint on the tip of it under my nails. This would create the illusion of mud and dirt being under the nails. The only negative aspect to this stage is on how to getting this paint off- I advise fairy liquid and a scrubber!

After applying paint under the ridge of my nails, I added a brown/yellow tinge colour to the nails, which I used a thicker paint brush so I could get every inch of my nails. This colour made my nails look a horrible dirt like colour, which was ideal for what I wanted to achieve. In places, I added too much paint onto my nails, which I removed by adding water the paint brush and smearing the excess off. This would make the colour weaker, which would look more effect as you don't want the nails to look as though it is just nail varnish. However, the excess paint I did not waste. I used this paint on the skin under nails so it would create the illusion of mud and dirt smearing up the finger tips as well.

This is the final outcome of this tutorial, which did work effectively. This as you can see would emphasis  how desperate the protagonist, within our trailer, wanted to leave the location. An improvement to this would be removing some of the paint on the skin or using a darker colour so that it would look more earth like. On the other hand, I could add real soil to this section by applying it when the paint is slightly damp and wet, therefore they would adhesive together and produce an even more effective outcome. I did this tutorial, so if we have any close up shots of hands it would make the production seem very realistic as the protagonists of the trailer would get filthy trying to escape a group of antagonists trying to kill you. This tutorial was also mainly for the final shot of the trailer, which we are debating on using or not. This is the lighter scene which would involve using a few close ups of the female's protagonist nails, which this make up would therefore reinforce the realism of the mise en scene during this situation.

Makeup tutorial - burns

hand with vaseline and hand cream, which in this case I used 'Nivea Moisturing Day Cream'. This is vital to do first as it makes it easier to get the make up off as it prevents from the latex sticking to your hairs on your arm. It also makes it easier for the latex to be spread on as it lubricates the skin, as the skin become a little oily and smooth. After applying this, with a paintbrush apply the 'Zombie Skin Latex Solution' on the dedicated area. Using paint brush means you can range the latex to where ever you desire. As you can see, I have applied the latex to the side of my right hand. Once I smeared the solution on my skin, I waited for this first layer to dry slightly, which the main importance of this stage is to not let the latex to completely dry. From this picture the clear sections are the dry locations and the white sections are the wetter, more damper parts.

The second stage is where you add thin strands of tissue paper or tissue, which I used. Adding this tissue will create the rigid texture to our burn. At this stage you will think this will not turn out that well, but don't it works perfectly! I made sure the tissue I used was very thin so the rigid texture would not be too big to make it less realistic and ensuring it will stick to the latex. I placed the tissue randomly, making the final outcome look like I have been burned in numerous places on my hand. Some sections can be overlapping to raise the texture; this would put depth into the burn ensuring the realism of the injury.

After I placed the tissue on my hand, I added another coating of latex over the tissue. This would aid the adhesiveness of the latex holding the tissue to the skin, making sure it does not come unstuck. I also added this second layer as due to the liquid solution it dampens the tissue, which creates further texture to the burn! If the tissue begins to fray or not stick just add another coat over the tissue. To help fasten up the process you can use a hairdryer to dry the latex, however this may move the tissue slightly, therefore disrupting the burn design.
The bottom picture shows when the latex has dried. I didn't use a hairdryer therefore my design of my burn stayed in tacted. The white section on my hand are the dried pieces of tissue. As you can see. these sections are raised and creates the depthness of the burn.

Once dried I added the first of many coats of paint to the dried tissue latex. The first coloured paint I used was my vibrant red, which I sponged on the central part of the burn. I used the lightest colour first so that I can create a gradient of colour from light to dark from middle to out. I used a sponges so I could accurately apply the paint into every crevice therefore putting shade into the burn. I didn't cover all the white as I wanted to apply darker colours here primary to others.

 I then started to apply a ruby red coloured paint and different shades of browns. This, as you can see, creates an illusion of the different shades of blood within the burn. I sponged on the browns mainly on the surrounding of the red, so I can reinforce the gradient I wanted to create. I also added other colours, such as; dark browns, maroons and jet black. This gives further depths and increase the grotesque of the burn, therefore enhancing the realism of the injury. This is vital as we do not want out trailer to be seen as tacky, if we do use this make up tutorial for our protagonists.

This is the final outcome of my burn. As you can see I added various dark colours such as black to create an ash like appearance, which reinforces that the injury is a burn. These dark colours also suggests that the blood as congealed due to the sweltering heat from the fire, which caused this injury. This injury could be used in our horror film as it is gory and very realistic. It also could create an enigma on how our protagonist gained this burn. This could just be used to add to the emphasis the realism of our trailer.

I also experimented by cutting the latex by with scissors, to create a deep gash into the skin. This increase the goriness of the injury, which emphasises that the trailer is a horror, therefore following the conventions of this genre. Due to the skin flapping, the paint inside looks wet suggesting the wound is still sore and recent, which would be ideal as we could reveal this after the protagonist has been cut something or someone...

Magazine Font Styles.

This 'Scream' magazine has gone for the conventional red colour of writing. This is a conventional colour for horror films because red connotes anger, blood and evil sending unconscious messages to the audience, letting them know that it is a horror film/magazine. The mast-head 'Scream' have drops of blood falling off of each letter. This conforms to the convention of horror films as you are very likely to have blood shown in it. It will attract audience who are into gruesome horror films as they know from the title that there will be some kind of blood shown. Although this is a conventional title for horrors, I do not like it. This is because I think it comes across quite childish and animated making it seem quite fake.

Empire magazine has gone for similar titles to 'Scream' magazine. It has red letters  however, is shown with fire spreading over the mast head. Fire connotes danger, death and anger. These are all typical conventions of horror films. Having the black background makes the antagonist stand out as well as the text because the colours clash; the black connotes fear and the unknown.

Makeup tutorial

First I add moisturiser, which is to ensure my skin is moist and refresh. This would allow the make up I use in this technique to stay on my skin longer and to ensure that it would not disappear if tempered with or touched. The type of moisturiser I used was E45 cream as it is all made from natural substances, which means that the make I use in this process does not affect my skin in anyway and if used the actor would not be happy if they reacted to the materials used.

The next stage is adding a smidgen of bronzer, which is where you use a make up brush you ensure the bronzer comes out smooth and flat. Using this would make the section of skin, where the bruise is being placed, smooth and to avoid uneven tones of skin colour. This would also help for the eye-shadow to mix with it, which would make the whole effect of the bruise even more effective. you can get this bronzer from any type of shop, but all you need to take into account is that it have to suit the colour of the actor, which is very important as you do not want them to look orange. This photo show the first type of eye-shadow needed for the base colour of our bruise which we want to achieve. Using a eye-shadow brush, would allow you to delicately apply the eye-shadow, so that it can form an actual looking styled bruise. The shape should be a little uneven so that it is more realistic as usually bruises are not in a specific shape. Using a fairly light colour means if the shape goes wrong it would not be as noticeable as if I used a darker colour it would mean I would have to start over. These are the next types of colours I used. The first one was a shade up from the previous colour so it would make the colour before more visible to see. The next colour was added around the edge of the other two to show that the impact occurred more harshly around the edge, but also to bring out the bruise more. The final colour was to ensure that if I added too much of the darker brown I could blend it into my skin, so it would avoid me starting all over again, as that would be very time consuming. This stage is using even darker colours, dark blue and darker brown. This is to emphasise how the bruise is coming out as just like a real one would do. The blue eye-shadow is to symbolise the most painful part of the bruise as usually this is whereas the darker brown is to help blend all the colours I have used so far, to make a gradient of colour. As you can see in the picture, these colours are the most dominant colours, which make the bruise look very realistic, which is ideal for our opening two minutes of our film.

This is the final result of making a bruise. This looks very much like a bruise as it has all the colours of one and suits the colour of the skin, meaning it doesn't look like it should not be there. However this shape may not be ideal for our film, as we should make it more like finger impressions, as if someone has grabbed someone’s arms. This may be ideal to be part of the protagonists make up regime as it could suggest domestic violence occurring in her life or something relatively similar

This is all of the equipment used to make this bruise. The equipment I used was, bronzer, make up brush, moisturiser, blusher brush (optional), eye-shadow applicator ( one of two preferably) and eye-shadows. These colours should consist of three colours being the same colour but different shades of this colour, a blue and a pale skin colour.

Makeup tutorial

I thought I should try out some of what I found on the tutorials, which would ensure that the process is an easy but very effective type of make up to use for our opening two minutes of our film.
First I added the moisturiser to my hands, which ensures my skin is moist and not dry. This would allow the make up to attach to the skin more and is less likely to come of if disturbed or touched. I used E45 cream to so it would not react with any of the resources I was using through this process as it would be very unprofessional if occurred.

This is the equipment I use to produce the cuts. Instead of using the wax make up which was present within the cut make up tutorial, I was advised to use this as it was less likely to react with people's skin where ever it was put and also if very easy to create indents and a cut effect as you have to actually cut the latex to produce the effect. I also used cotton buds to spread the substance onto my skin so I wouldn't get messy and could produce precise shapes.

This is when I was adding the latex substance to my and, with the use of the cotton bud. As you can see the substance come out white on the skin, which allows you too see where you are putting it. However after a few seconds it begins to dry and turns clear and shiny. This shininess would be reduce in the further stages of the process. I added the latex onto my skin in a sausage like shape, which would mean that it is easier to cut into the latex as it would have lots of areas to attach itself on to the skin.

This latex would have to be repeatedly added so that it would build up layers, similarly to our skins, the thicker and more layers you do the most effective the cut appeared like. This also allows lots of fake blood to fill the indent, which would add to the effect of blood flowing out of the deep gash. As you can see I have put many layers on top of each other. In this picture on the left I have added foundation and bronzer to make the cut seem like it is my own skin, rather than making it look very fake and unreal. Adding the use of bronzer, with a brush, reduces the shininess of the latex, ensuring the effect of human skin.

As you can see, this stage is fairly difficult as you have to be careful using the scissors. In this stage you to cut the latex with the scissors, which due to the use of this type of latex, it is easy to cut through, avoiding cutting your actual skin. This is one of the longest parts of the process in forming a cut as you have to be precise and accurate as this determines the shape of your cut. Using this cutting effect makes the latex peel, which creates the effect of the skin actually being cut. Due to the moisturiser used at the beginning, the latex does not effect the skin in any way. Be careful during the cutting stage!

During this stage if some added make up ( bronzer/ foundation) is removed, re-add some to sure there is no shininess or discolouration present. Next add red paint to the indentation of the cut, this may not realistic yet but adding different colours from darker red to brown would add the effect of scubs forming or being recently cut, which is ideal for the use of it being used in the opening scenes. Adding the surrounding part of the indentation with a darker colour shows the dried blood effect and emphasises the deepness of the cut.

This is the finally result as you can see on the right. This is very effective to use as it appears to look very realistic, and emphasises the pain and depth of the cut. The use of the various colours used on the cut, increases the realistic of the cut and if we do use this effect, close ups would be no problem as we can add further detail if needed. Including a slight shine to the cut suggests that the cut is becoming increasingly infected. This could be ideal for the use of being in our film as the antagonist can have these on various parts of their skins, especially the hands and even the face, depending on the use of costume. As you can see this is all the equipment I used to produce this cut. I used: a paintbrush, scissors, moisturiser, foundation, bronzer, sponges, skin latex, warm water, make up brush, cotton buds and paint, which consist of two shade of red (scarlet and bright red) and brown. Overall this is a very good idea to use to for our make up for the antagonist, plus it follows the conventions of a horror as involves blood and gore.

Questionnire

Questionnaire The point of this questionnaire is to aid us in making an ideal and a high effective trailer which would suit all of our large target audience. These results would aid in our decision of many things, such as; the name of our film we hope to promote by this trailer, certain aspects of the antogonists and protagonists and even gives us further knowledge of what our target audience are like. 

1.How old are you?

a)7-11

b)12-14

c)15-24

d)23-34

e)35-44

f)44 +

2.Are you Male or Female?

a)Male

b)Female

3.What is your proffered aspect of a horror film?

a) Gore

b) Supernatural

c) Jumpy

4.What is your preferred costume for antagonist?

a)Casual but scary

b)Casual

c)Supernatural

5.What is your preferred location?

a) City

b)Suburbs

c)Country

d)Supernatural

6.What do you think is more effective in a trailer?

a)Fast paced editing

b)Slow paced editing

c) Mix

7.Whatis the most important aspect of a film?

a)Character

b)Location

c)Plot

d)Music

e) Actors

8. What do you prefer?

a)Realism

b)Surrealism

9. What type of music draws you into Horror/Thriller trailers?

a)Past paced

b)Slow paced

c)Mix

10.When do you think Horror/thriller films are best set?

a)Day time

b)Night time

11.Which name for a horror/thriller do you prefer?

a) Hunted

b)Silent Scream

c)The campsite

d)Masked 

e)Campsite 31

f)Pitch 13

g)Portrayal

12. What is your favourite Horror/Thriller film?

Props research

Props research- antagonist weapons in films

Freddie Kruger- The knife claw

This is the prop which is used as a weapon in ‘A nightmare on Elm Street’. As you can see the clawed glove consists of four blades which are curved. Having numerous blades makes the weapon terrifying especially when the blade sharpen next to each other, as the noise they create is frightening. The brown leather glove makes the glove look old and ancient, suggesting that the antagonist has used this crop numerous of times. This prop could be effective as we could use a prop similar to this, as we can have close up shots of where the blades shine in the light.

My Bloody Valentine- Pickaxe

This prop is used in the film ‘My Bloody Valentine’, which the antagonist uses on his victims. This is an item we could use as in public it wouldn’t

scare people, in comparison if we brought the glove with us. This, however, doesn’t come across as scary which we would like to have, meaning this may not be the best prop we can base our antagonist murder weapon on.

Friday 13^th

This is the prop which is carried by the antagonist ‘Jason Voorhees’. This, as you can see, is a machete, which is a very violent weapon to have due to the length and sharpness of the blade. This is a very effective prop to use as no one would want to ever be chased by someone carrying this. However, as it is a very dangerous prop, if we used something similar like this; it means we would have to make or find a plastic one, so it looks the same as a real one but is completely fake. 

Location research - used in films.

Many horror fans would recognize this location from the horror film ‘Friday 13^th’, which involves the iconic antagonist, Jason. This location was used throughout the film, where its final appearance was were ‘Jason’ was ‘killed’ by the protagonists. Although it doesn’t look like a scary setting in this picture, when nightfall this is where the horror begins. Having broken and rotted section of wood, could connote to something trying to get out to escape which makes the cabin seem frightening and horrid. Having the stable surrounded by blocks of trees, makes the wooden structure seem secluded. This creates an unnerving atmosphere as it seems to be in the middle of nowhere. The whole wooden structure seems odd and mysterious, especially only having one window, as if someone doesn’t want people knowing what is in the stable. This tells me that a secluded building may make our location seem more frightening, and therefore follow the conventions of a horror location.

Insidious location

This location is from the horror duo

‘Insidious’, which features Patrick Wilson. This location is very effective as it looks exactly like any other house you see. Having used such an ordinary house would make the audience feel as though what happens in the film could happen to them, therefore they associates themselves with the film. Also having horrifying event occurring in a household, the same from as any others, would increase the scare factor of the film. This means it would attract the target audience, horror fans. The house is every day like, which also gives an insight of the protagonists but gives no insight of what the antagonist will be like.

The Hills Have Eyes

This location is from the films ‘The Hills Have Eyes’, which is about when a family breakdown in the middle of what seems to be a desert. This picture trailers.

shows us a memorable place within the film, where the owner of the petrol station leads the protagonists to their deaths. As you can see the film was set in a very dry rural location, which is in the middle of nowhere. Using such a secluded place would increase the scariness of the film as in these locations there is usually no signal to contact for help. For our trailer this sort of rural location will be hard to find, however we could use woods which still follow this rural environment. The use of the petrol sign being worn away and dirty suggests that it is deserted or not well visited, which makes the building seem creepy. This would the audience uncomfortable and telling the protagonists not to go in, (which they do). This old, worn creates an old, eerie unwelcoming atmosphere, which we could use within our locations for our

The Silence of the Lambs

This location is from the hit box office horror film in 1991 ‘Silence of the Lambs’. As you can see, the location of some of this film is from a prison block, where the antagonist is locked up behind bars. This automatically creates an enigma on how is the film a horror when the antagonist has already been caught. This could be a clever location to use within our film as it can create an automatic enigma of who is in the prison, or why is the antagonist already caught? Due to the dim lighting it creates a daunting effect, which would make the audience feel uncomfortable which we want to achieve. Overall a location like a prison creates an unwelcoming atmosphere as nobody wants to be in one of those, however, this location may be more suitable for an action or drama film. This means it may be hard to portray a horror through this location, especially as it’s a trailer which gives minimal information about the film, but just enough to get the gist of it. On the other hand, we could make this location seem part of a horrifying house, maybe a basement. The layout of the location is long and narrow, which we could make horrifying as one of the protagonists could be running down there and tortured people could try to be grabbing them through the bars. Realistically, we would probably find no place like this for our trailer, but we could use the ideas of a dim lit alley

way, similar to this layout.

Nightmare on Elm Street

This is the house which made its appearance in the film, ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’. Although it has been sold now and had a renovation, this is what the house was like during the filming of the

horror. This automatically creates an unwelcoming atmosphere, just from the rotting structure and the panels covering all the windows. The panelling over the windows suggests that the owner doesn’t want anyone to see what’s inside, or for someone not to get out. The audience would feel uncomfortable from just looking at it let alone going inside. The dead trees hanging limbly reinforces the emptiness and unwelcome sense the house brings. This use of the environment expresses the nature of the location, which is very effective and an idea we could use when researching and choosing our locations for our trailer. The use of colours, for example, the red door connotes to danger and blood, which signifies this could be a place where blood is spilled…

Location research - woods

This is Boxhill, which is where there is lots of woodlands which could be ideal for our final location. This is because as there are lots of trees it could act as a campsite, which could be part of the plot to our trailer. Also the location is very secluded meaning we would not have many interruptions from the public. This therefore means we can film as long as we want and use as much mise en scene as we can, (tents, clothing etc). The overhanging branches would create distorted shadows, which would be effective as they can be mistaken for something or someone else. The location is also very easy to get to, meaning we wouldn’t need to travel a long distance to film shots of our trailer. This location could be linked to the ‘Epsom West Park Hospital’, as the protagonists could stumble across this scary building, where all the horror takes place. A negative to this location is the lighting, which seems to be a reoccurring problem with our locations. Due to the overhanging branches, it means our filming times will be cut short as it the light will be limited, unless we bring our lighting equipment. Another negative is that as it is open to the general public, it means we will have disruptions, which could affect the type of shots we use. However, this location looks like a realistic campsite, which would be effective as this could be a location in which the whole trailer takes place. As the location is large it provides us with lots of choice on where we film, meaning we can find the perfect place to shot our trailer.

Leatherhead cemetery

This location is obviously a stereotypical location which is used in countless trailers, not only horror genre. Using a cemetery can symbolise many connotations which could be effective as the audience can interpret our trailer in their own ways. For example, cemetery connote to sadness and despair as a loved one, our protagonist, could have died or it could be the place where our antagonist could be buried. However, as there could be many meanings behind using this location, it could confuse the target audience as they may think we have given away too much about the film. On the other hand, if we film during the evening it means that we can have the antagonist walking around the area as if

looking for our protagonist, who is hiding behind a grave stone, scary! As it is such an open space it means we have all the natural light we can use, which would be more realistic as it would provide us with what you would expect the atmosphere to be like in a horrifying situation. The biggest negative to this location is that it’s a cemetery where actually loved ones have been buried, meaning we wouldn’t want to be disrespectful. This therefore means we would have to ask the owner if we could film little section for our trailer. Apart from this, the atmosphere of horror and scariness has been created by the cemetery as the grave stones and the casting shadows when it is dark would portray all this. Therefore we wouldn’t have to alter or change the mise en scene in the location.

Bookham woods

This location was used for our AS production, ‘The Woods’. This location was perfect for our opening two minutes as we achieved numerous high quality shots, which build up tension from the word ‘GO’. This location has lots of branches overhanging creepily and numerous trees which means we can achieve the running shot effectively. This location could be the place where the fast edited shots could be filmed as there are countless hiding places we can place our protagonist/s. As we have used this place before it means we know the area really well, therefore knowing where we can film to gain effective shots. This has quite a numerous amount of trees which would make the protagonist feel as if they are close in on her, which would increase the tension. As there are many pathways and walkways it means we can choose where we are film. These walkways are long and narrow, which means we could have the shot of the antagonist at one end while the protagonist is at the other end, where all she can do is run.

Location research - buildings

Epsom West Park Hospital

This is Epsom West Park Hospital, which is an abandon hospital which many people in my area know it as ‘Epsom Asylum’, spooky right? Anyway, this is location one of my location research. As the location is in Epsom, it is very easy for us to get to so minimal transport,

however this is the least of our worries as we want a perfect location for a high quality trailer. As you can see, the external environment of the location creates an eerie and unnerving atmosphere which is ideal for a horror trailer as a scary location is part of the conventions of a horror. The unkempt and overgrown plants makes the building seem as being untouched which makes it seem frightening, especially the ivy growing up the side of the house. We could do many camera shots with this unkempt rural environment, such as, a low angled shot therefore having the camera within the long grass, with a black silhouette of a figure holding an axe, walking towards the camera. This shot we could add a blurry effect, which could suggest POV (point of view) shot. The building is also very large, similar to the buildings used in ‘The Woman in Black’ and ‘The Others’ which are all successful films. Within the location there many empty rooms which have decayed and aged, which would create an uncomforting and scary atmosphere; especially when the rooms are badly lit which would build tension. However a limitation to this is as the building is abandoned, there is no electricity, therefore the only light we would have is natural lighting, meaning filming in the daytime. This may take away from the fear factor we wish to create; as stereotypically the horrifying events usually occur at night, however we could subvert from this stereotypical convention. A way we could avoid this is that we bring portable lights which we can equipped ourselves if we pick this location for some of our trailer. There are places within this location which would provide us with frightening shots, such as this long walkway. As the walkway is very long and full of windows, there will be lots of light which we could use, even when it begins to get darker. We again can do many shots here, such as, the antagonist running after the protagonist (maybe using a GoPro camera). We could also have the antagonist walking on the outside of the walkway dragging a knife along the windows, while the protagonist is within the walkway! Due to the walkway being narrow, it would build up tension as it’s such a confine space, and many people fear being in this situation as there is no place to run, except for going straight. This location has many aspects which would suit our theatrical trailer, especially the long walkway…

Ashtead cricket club

This is Ashtead cricket club which is a we can do.

one floor building, which is open to the public. This location could be used for our trailer, as during night time it becomes very spooky, which will bring tension to our trailer. Due to there being four/ five outdoor lights outside, it illuminates the outside deck dimly but enough for us to capture objects in high quality. This dim lighting would create an uncanny atmosphere which is ideal for a horror trailer. However this would not be the main location where the film would be set as the inside is too modern, therefore subvert the stereotypical horror setting. This location could be where a protagonist runs to, to hide from the antagonist. On the other hand, as there is lots of grassland, we could have a tracking shot of a protagonist running away from the antagonist, as this would provide tension but also create an enigma, why is the antagonist doing this? A negative to this location is that we cannot go inside as it is too modern to be in a horror trailer; this therefore means this cannot be the main location for where our film is located. This means we are limited to using the deck and the grassland, which isn’t too bad, but it does limit what

St Peters, Chertsy, Surrey

This is St Peter’s which is a deserted building where it used to be a hospital. Automatically, there is a negative to this as there would be a bit of transport needed to actually get footage. However, from what I have seen the place is very ideal due to the numerous rooms, which create an atmosphere that will scare any audience. As the walls have aged and moss has grown, it causes the rooms to seem creepy and unnerving. The outside appearance makes the building very secluded and hidden which is ideal for a location for section of our trailer as, it would make it more realistic, meaning no one will hear the murderous screams... There are many shots which could be used such as the antagonist

jumping out from behind doors or even having shots which suggest the antagonist is cutting a person; these are all shots which we can achieve from this location. Another positive is that as you can visit this building, it means there is electricity meaning we would have sufficient light in practically all the rooms. However, when there’s good, there is bad; some rooms will be unavailable due to maintenance meaning we would be limited to only a few rooms, which isn’t ideal. However apart from this the place is ideal to use for shots of our theatrical trailer.

MJC Production houses

Finally we could use our houses for filming as they are obviously easy to get to and all our equipment are already at either of our houses. If we use a household location, it would allow our audience to associate with the trailer more as they feel this could happen to them. This therefore would intrigue the horror fan fanatics (target audience) as they will gain an adrenaline rush, meaning they would then go to watch the film. Furthermore, if we use this location we know which places are scary and which places are not, ideal for time keeping. As it our house we can easily change the atmosphere which we create by changing what mise en scene is shown, what objects are used to create enigma and symbolic codes. This means it is easy to convey which we want to compare to using a location which we cannot alter. The only negative is that the different locations within the trailer have to link somehow, which means we have to choose very carefully, on which locations are used. In our last production ‘The Woods’ we used a household which was very effective as it unnerved our target audience, which we know from all the positive feedback we gained. This therefore gives us confidence in using this location as it worked previously; however we need to remember this is a theatrical trailer therefore it may not be as effective as last time.