Trailer Draft Work

Outline: The outline for my trailer will try to portray it as a spoof horror film as much as possible, this will make it stand out from other film trailers on the television. I will make it obvious its a spoof horror film by including many shots of humorous scenes. I will look to just show scenes of humour and not follow conventions of other film trailers by telling the whole story of the film. The feedback I got from my focus group expressed that viewers dont like the trailer to be to lenghty, just to show important parts of the film and give enough information to tempt them to watch the film. I would look to only feature the main characters of the film. The characters featured will be finalised in my script and storyboard.

Script: First scene is a black screen with white writing saying "In october of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near March town centre while shooting a documentary". This then dissapears and the words "A year after, their footage was found" appear. Our three student characters then appear with the girl saying "Do you believe in the spirit of March?". The citizen chracter then replies "No i do not belive in it, all this supernatural tosh really does get on my wick, i wish everyone would just grow up a little bit (walks away)". Our girl character then asks another member of the public by saying "What do you think about the spirit of March?", the citizen then replies " Its me haha, ha only joking, im not allowed out after 9 P.M., i have a police curfue for an incident involvong late night livestock molesting". Our girl character then asked another person, she said " What is your view on the spirit of March?". The person replies "Well Well Well, the spirit of March is very scary indeed, i cant work it out, no it baffles me, is it real? i dont know, im very worried about it".

The trailer is now set in the woods, the girl character says "Here we are preparing to shoot our film, its gunna be so good hehe". the boy character says "Im pretty scared man, what if it turns out to be true". The other girl then says "hopfeully, it does"

There is then a group of scenes showing various scary scenes throughtout the rest of the trailer, this is coupled with screams and gasps from the characters as they are seen through a variety of close ups and mid shots, along with a bird's eye view shot.

The trailer then finishes with a blank screen showing the words "Scary Movie Project".
Storyboard:

Shotlist:

All of my filming will be done using a video camera and a tripod. Most of the shots will be mid shots but there will also be a few high angle shots to show the vulnerability of the main characters. I feel this will be a suffcient variation of shots in a short trailer. This will also help to follow the conventions of typical horror/spoof trailers as very few of them use a handheld camera for example.