Intial Ideas For Trailer

Myself and my group member decided to brainstorm together some ideas which would be most effective when creating our horror trailer. By looking at techniques such as Camera Angles, Editing, Mise en scene, Sound effects, music, special effects, setting and dialogue we could decided which techniques to use to create effects suited to the horror genre.

Camera Angles

Close Ups

Extreme close ups of characters(victims) emphasize panic and fear, extreme close ups of scary character cause panic to the audience.

Mid shot- to show characters and scary character

Long shot/ establishing shot- to establish setting/location

P.O.V shot

Long shot

Low angle

High angle

Ariel shot

Over the shoulder shot

Editing

Following Todorov's theory editing tends to go slow at the start to show a state of equliberium and then picks up to a fast pace when the action begins.

Blunt cut

Jump cut

Fade to black

Fade to white - connotes dream/ flashbacks

Establishing shots

Elipsis

Shot reverse shot

Cut to flashback (black and white editing to show flash back when girl is drowning)

Mise en Scene

Props

Car

Old newspaper

Limited amount to show seclusion in the forest

Characters

Two girls going to the forest and the ghost who drowned
Two boys going to the forest and the ghost who drowned
One boy and one girl and the ghost who drowned

Costumes

Old fashioned dress for ghost scary character (to show that she is not from the present time)
Normal everyday clothing for the two other characters showing that there ordinary people
Dull colour clothing to fit in with horror genre of trailer

Sound Effects

Screams
Heartbeats
Heavy breathing
none - (to make music sound more dramatic)

Music

Mainly want a song which starts slow, sad and eerie to begin with but turns fast towards middle and end to add that dramatic horror effect.

Wake Me Up Inside - Evanescence
This is going to hut - Hans Zimmer

Special Effects

Slow motion
Speed up shots
special effect such as a swirl to distinguish past from present

Setting

Forest/woodland location
A lake/river
Part set in a house

Dialogue

None
Limited Dialogue
Lots of dialogue (as oppose to captions to be a narrative for the trailer)