'To Do' for 2nd Draft

To Do:

• We need to get some more footage, this will be mainly of the graveyard and this will improve the narrative so it becomes clearer to the audience. It will therefore make the trailer much more interesting to watch, rather than just a character walking up and down a road!
• Add in and complete our inter titles; as these were rushed when we did the first draft and to apply effective transitions to make the trailer look more professional.
• To create our possession scenes, by having fast moving, confusing shots, which then dip to black (Cloverfield). We've decided that the possession will be caused by Madeleine touching an angel statue which is at the end of the grave. These possession shots will then occur later on in the trailer, for example when she's in town (we are going to shoot this for our final draft).  

1st Draft- Nightmares

The first draft of our film trailer first needs to be longer, there aren't enough shots used that make up the trailer and so the narrative is limited and uninteresting. The shots that are included are good quality and show a variation of angles; although the shot near the beginning of the trailer (of our main character walking the dog) needs to be made shorter or deleted completely.
The other shots we need to include are the scenes of possession (fast shots, then dips to black, intertext of Cloverfield), also shots close to the church (Saltford) which is where the possession will occur and this means we'll need to re-shoot her walking through the village, as the settings won't match up.
The music we included is effective in the sense that it links to the genre and creates a creepy feel to the trailer but it needs to be stronger (that stands out more against previous intertexts we looked at). Also the voice overs of Madeleine's character works well; it enables the audience to personally identify with her because she's telling her story and how she's feeling directly to the audience. This is important in horror/thriller trailers because it gets the audience involved, meaning they are more affected by the film and are more likely to remember it.
Our trailer does involve inter-titles at the start, of the production values only, so we need to include a shot showing the title (close to end) as well as cast names.
The target audience for our trailer is also unclear, I think this is mainly because we have little narrative and little effects (it's quite simple), meaning the audience find it hard to get an idea about who it's aimed at. We want to aim it at males and females aged between 15- 21. Because the main character is female and conventionally horror/thriller films are stereotypically aimed at a male audience it already shows elements that it's aimed at both genders (but we need to make a stronger link); we could do this by including shots that the target audience can relate to, for example a shot of her on her laptop or out with her friends.

Possession in Our Trailer

We've thought of doing the possession part of our horror/thriller film trailer like how the producers have done the panic scene in the Cloverfield trailer; they have used a hand-held camera which emphasises the rush and confusion that the victims were feeling, as well as dipping to just a black screen about every 3-4 seconds (the music is also blocked out to silence). The point of this in our trailer will also to be to confuse the audience; creating enigma as they don't understand what is happening (such as the camera shaking so the character is maybe being attacked or running from something). The dipping to black connotes dangers and death, the audience become blind to what is happening and it makes them want to continue watching.