First Meeting - Genre

In our first meeting we discussed what genre of film we would like to base our trailer on. we all came to the decision to have a Thriller Horror trailer. We decided these genres because as a group we think this genre would give us the advantage to use more effects when we edited the trailer and included a wider variety of addition sound effects. To help the whole group come to this decision and to make sure it was the right we watched some trailers from other films, some of these trailers would come under the genre of Thriller or Horror but some of them don't as we just think they were helpful for their edition purposes. These are the following trailers, The Lovely Bones, One Hour Photo, Hill have Eyes, American Beauty, Last House On The Left, Harry Potter And the Deathly Hallows, Inception and Amityville Horror. All of these trailers help everyone in our group to image their own trailer in their mind and what sort of effects would be added, the sort of shots that would engage the viewers, the sound sounds effects that would build up the tension and excitment and where about the shots would be taken. We all shared our own ideas for our first draft teaser trailer. We decided to base the start of the film around a young girl who is taking a stroll in some woods by herself. We would use a camera clicking sound effect and straight cuts to make it seem like someone is taking pictures of this girl and following her. Between each cut we would include a blank screen with text on. We think this was a good way to create tension and engage the viewer as it keeps them wondering what will happen next. Then after about three or four shots of this girl walking around the woods we would then speed up the shots and have a shot each second of this dark would and loads of things happening. for example we spoke about having shots where a bloody hand print would be on a tree, a bloody dirty hand sticking out the ground, the girl running really fast through the woods, close up about her shocked scared face, a shot of a dark shadow running fast through the woods, a foot print in the floor with blood stains around, and similar shots like this, but all of these shots would be taken at night in a dark wood. Also between each shot straight cut their would be a loud noise similar to a heart beat. Add this sound effect would defiantly build up the tension and excitement of the audience.