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. 

Tag Line Ideas

Once we had come up with the title, I thought the next best thing to do would be to create a tag line to match the title. We tried to think of a few ideas our self to do with haunting and ghosts, basically following the conventions of our trailer. These were the ideas that we came up with:

We struggled deciding on which tag line to use between the choice of; Death Will Have Its Way, An Inevitable Doom and If You Dare If You Seek You Will Find...
When looking at the layout that the trailer was going to take, we decided on using the final option from above of IF YOU DARE, IF YOU SEEK, YOU WILL FIND... We chose this as we wanted the tag line to be long enough that we could split in between certain shots. It also meant that the title of Apparition could appear afterwards as it follows on well from the tag line and the title will therefore be the last thing that people will see and remember.

Film Title Ideas

When we were trying to think of a title for our horror trailer we decided to use a horror title generator. We were struggling to think of names, so thought a generator would be a good idea. These were the results of that generator:

When reading over them and seeing where they would be placed within our video, we concluded that we wanted the title to simply be one word. We decided on this as we thought it would have more of an impact upon the audience and is a lot more striking.
This left us with two options; Insanity and Apparition. We decided on using APPARITION. We discarded Insanity because we felt like this could be a false advertising of the plot of our trailer and with the definition of Apparition meaning "a ghost or ghost like image of a person", we felt this fit more.

Initial Ideas

To start my planning of the horror trailer, I decided to create a spider diagram of my initial ideas of what we could have a a plot. I came up with 5 different ideas and expressed them with small descriptions onto a spider diagram:

Once looking over the ideas and seeing how much content we could get out of each, we decided to chose the idea of "Film Project". This idea would include exploring into the suspected suicide of a girl a group of friends new and whilst doing this we could create a film project documenting what we had discovered along the way with cameras. The group of friends go to the woods where she apparently killed herself to see if there were any clues as to what had really happened to her, as they do not fully believe that she committed suicide and instead have suspicions that she may have been murdered. During there exploration around the woods, one of the friends discovers an item placed within the grass, as they look up they see a figure standing in front of them, turning to run away as fast as they can taking the object with them. Once they return back to a home, strange things begin to happen as they think the thing has followed them back, but instead he has come for the object they took.

Initial Script

Box Office Statistics for Existing Films

Box Office: 

INSIDIOUS:

Domestic Total Gross: $54,009,150 Distributor:Film District Release Date: April 1, 2011 Genre: Horror Runtime: 1 hrs. 38 min. MPAA Rating: PG-13 Production Budget: $1.5 million

THE CONJURING:

Domestic Total Gross: $137,400,141 Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: July 19, 2013 Genre: Horror Runtime: 1 hrs. 52 min. MPAA Rating: R Production Budget: $20 million

OUIJA:

Domestic Total Gross: $50,856,010 Distributor:Universal Release Date: October 24, 2014 Genre: Horror Runtime: 1 hrs. 29 min. MPAA Rating: PG-13 Production Budget: $5 million

THE VISIT:

Domestic Total as of Oct. 18, 2015:$63,082,305 Distributor:Universal Release Date: September 11, 2015 Genre: Horror Runtime: 1 hrs. 34 min. MPAA Rating: PG-13 Production Budget: $5 million

Inspiration from Existing Posters

• The use of the colour red indicates the genre of horror as it is a common convention usually linked to blood and gore leading to death. The colour red is also linked to danger
• The image of a woman on the poster gives the audience an idea of who to look out for in the film
• The dark lighting and black background links to the darkness there will be in the film and gives the audience pre-fear

• the grey pale colours gives off a cold feeling towards the audience 
• we cannot see the faces of anything in the poster, this is the sense of unknown which is unnerving and mysterious

• the single house in the centre shows isolation, linking to fear of being alone 
• blurred sections of the poster and fog creates an eerie atmosphere with a sense of mystery
• the black and white leaves you feeling empty and unsure due to blankness and once again mystery
• scary prop of the boarded up windows could be based around the story line of isolation and unknown
• comments on the movie and a 5 star rating will make audiences eager to go and see the film

• picture in the poster and the title link together giving the audience a clear idea of the film
• the off black and white colours gives the poster an eerie feel as it looks old and unwanted

• close up of the actors face tells the audience who to look for- the emotion on the face is also portrayed onto the audience from the beginning 
• the title of the film takes over a significant amount of the poster allowing it to stand out 
• the mist in the poster adds tense atmosphere and mystery