Character Profile

Hayley Clark

A once innocent quite little girl. After being bullied very badly most of her life decided to take her own life, she returns as a ghost to haunt the group of girls who made her life a misery!

Aubrey 

The 'Final Girl' in this story line. Aubrey was apart of the group who bullied Hayley but did not play an active part in the bullying, this saves her life as Hayley returns to get revenge on the girls but uses Aubrey to get through to them.

Lottie, Maya and Kerry

The girls who made Hayley's life a living hell. They are known as the bullies in this story line and as a result of this they are killed in revenge. 

Story Board

My group and I produced story boards in order to help us make our Horror trailer. These below is what we came up with. 

The Narrative 

My group and I have produced the narrative for our  Horror trailer. Things such as names and locations may change if we feel that It could be better a little later down the line.

Props List 

I have created a props list and a shot list to help with the planning of my trailer. Having these will make it easier to see what shots we are using in each scene and allows us to use a variety of shots. For the props list is also makes it easier for us, it ensure that we have all the props for each scene and can act as a check list for us. 

Props 

• Clock
• Mobile Phone 
• School plaque
• Police file

Shot List 

• Two shot, Mid long shot
• Two shot, medium close up
• Establishing shot 
• High angle, wide shot
• Long shot 
• Medium close up 
• Wide shot 
• Close up 
• Medium Shot 
• Extreme close up 

Preliminary Task 

Our teachers chose our groups and gave us a task to create a scene from a previous horror movie or one of our own. Our group decided to create our own scene as we struggled to chose a previous horror movie. The scene was set in a class room that was empty. We also had a masked killer in the scene which has been used in various horror films including Halloween. By creating this scene we get an understanding of how the real thing would be. I learn't that planning is a crucial part in creating a trailer and I will definitely carry this through when it comes to producing the real trailer.    

Research- Questionnaire 

I conducted a questionnaire as one of my choices of research in order to find out more about what people thought about horror movies. I asked twenty-five people in my college to fill out a questionnaire that I produced and these graphs are from the results I received back. “Are you Male or Female” and “How old are you?” are both important questions that I asked because it has a lot to do with my target audience. It has been said that the youth are the most common group to watch horror movies. These questions were for me to get an idea of who was taking part in my questionnaire.

As you can see most people chose paranormal horror over the rest. These sorts of questions are vital to ask if I want to have a good trailer for people to react to. Now that I have found this out I think that I will highly consider having a paranormal horror trailer as this is what they prefer.  

The fact that most individuals chose the music as what scares them shows that I will have to put a lot of effort into making the music for my trailer. I too agree that music plays a big part in it. I will also make sure that there will be jumpy scenes that are unexpected to get my audiences hearts racing, this was the second most scares convention that they chose.

 I found the answers from this question interesting because I wasn't expecting ‘word of mouth’ to have so much quotes. This will encourage me to do more thinking as to how I can promote my trailer.