First Draft

Sound

Although our trailer does include speech, we still feel the need to include music through out the video even if it just to be in the background. None of our group has any skills developing music and we therefore decided to use soundtracks of a horror genre that has been created and shared onto YouTube. We asked permission from the creators of the soundtrack if we could use it as part of our trailer to which they agreed. We selected a range of soundtrack and listened to all to see which would fit the best and whether we would maybe need more than one. 

Once looking through these different sounds we found that we needed more than one soundtrack and decided on the following: 

Script

Rough Script: 

Final Script:

Storyboard and Shot list

Storyboard: 

Shot List: 

Choosing a Font

To help me decide on the best font to use for our title and tag lines I decided to assist the help of a website, www.dafont.com. This website gave a massive range of different fonts that could be used for a horror genre. After flicking through hundreds I condensed it down to 5 different fonts to choose from. I used the title of our film in the variety of fonts to see which would fit the best and here are the different fonts:

Accord SF

Castellar

Segoe script

Tennessee heavy SF

Trajan pro

We concluded that the font we are going to use was called TRAJAN PRO. I believed this to fit in very well within the trailer as it was not too complicated but still caught your eye. It also worked very well against the static background we chose to be behind the text in the trailer.

Locations

Once we had come up with the idea for our horror trailer, we had to think about the locations we could use to make it possible. We had initially thought of changing the idea of the woods to someone we thought would be more scary and use an abandoned house on the Army Barracks. This idea was quickly change back to the original of the woods however, as it was just too dangerous for us to go to the Army Barracks.
We chose to use the Kings mill woods to shoot in investigation around the area of where the girl died. This was a public place, making it easy for us to access and easy to get the filming done quickly. We did however, have to go at a time where the woods would not be busy with people dog walking, This meant we had to go there when it was dark, but this worked out well for us as it added tension and made it have a scarier feel to it.
We then decided to shoot the rest of the trailer at one of the group members houses. We chose to shoot at Beth's house as the layout of her house worked out well for some of the shot ideas we had and wanted to us. It also worked well as her family members were away meaning we could get all the filming done easily.

I have taken some pictures of the locations we used:

Character Mise En Scene

PROTAGONIST:

Clothing- 

For the protagonist I want her clothing to be basic and simple. The clothing must be comfortable to change from the scene of investigating and running in the woods to lounging about at home. From looking through my research, it is very common for a simple top and pair of jeans or leggings to be worn. From this I have decided that my main character will wear a simple top and a pair of jeans. The other two girls will also wear similar clothing to this to make them seem equal. 

Make up-  

I would like the make up to be very similar to the clothing that will be worn. Something simple that does not over power or something that would distract away from any facial expressions that will be portrayed from the character. This will also be the same for all of the girls and will be "natural" with minimal mascara, eyeliner, eye shadow etc. 

Hair-

I do not think it matters whether the girls have their hair up or hair down, it would just need to follow the theme of the natural look. Because of this I would prefer that if the hair was to up that it was in a simple low ponytail or a messy bun to once again keep the natural feel of the narrative. 

ANTAGONIST:

Clothing-

We will be giving our antagonist a mask to wear therefore there is not need to worry about make up or hair for the male. The only thing that needs to be thought about is the clothing he will wear to try make him look scary and creepy to fit the trailer. We also wanted his body to be difficult to see to focus on the white mask that we want to contrast dark clothing that we think the antagonist should were. Simple black clothing will be worn as will not be seen clearly in the dark.