Desinging & Ideas.

Using my research I now had to come up with some ideas of what I want my trailer to be about. As my trailer is going to be of a Paranormal horror I want it to be as scary and realistic as possible. I decided the best start to do this was to do two ideas for two films. I wrote two synopsis of two possible films that I could think of.

I wanted my trailer to go something along the lines of this; (Trailer basic plan as I named it)

This plan would give me an aspect of how the flow of the trailer needs to go. From that plan the trailer would show the basic aspects of the story and the characters without giving to much information about the plot away. It also has the scare factor that most trailers have.

The first synopsis which I wrote for a film is called, "The house of nightmares".

The House Of Nightmares (Synopsis).

General Plot:

A typical college boy, average life into the average stuff. He gets drawn to a house that’s in the middle of nowhere and deserted. Claims he had a dream about it and takes his friends over to have a look. They don’t find much in the house but he starts to get phone calls and text messages from the empty house. All his friends go over to the house to investigate one night time and it’s when the movie really changes. They get stuck and locked in the building all six of them. A Massively haunted house. Dark and Erie, and the longest night of their lives!  Banging on walls! Creepy man being seen in the dark, feeling like there’s someone standing right behind you when there's not. And two deaths.

Character(‘s) Possible:

Six friends, who are all the main characters. Robert is the main character in the whole trailer however and it is his idea to go to house in the first place. All the six friends are around 18 years of age and go to there last year of sixth form at school.

The second synopsis that I made is a different sort of film. Showing a year of a gentleman's life in one film and how a spirit in the  house haunted him before killing him and his girlfriend. I named it "The fourth house in the neighbourhood."

The Fourth House In The Neighbourhood. (Trailer)

Second Synopsis.

A Businessman who recently moved to the suburbs in America to do some work over there. Typical nice house perfect for himself.

1 Month into staying at his house he starts to notice strange things in the house, things were not left where he left them. Strange tapping noises at night.

3 Months After Moving In.

He throws a causal party for him and his neighbours. Nothing too extreme just a get together, a drink and some music. At the party Matthew notices one of his neighbours is near the corridor at the front of house, they appear to be just stood there focusing on something. Matthew asks her if she’s okay, Looking out for her. She just turns to him and says “You have to leave the house”.

6 Months After Moving In .

The Noises and strange things around the house no longer happen. However for about two weeks, every single night Matthew was awoken at 02:07 am. For no reason at all. He couldn't work out what was causing it.

1 Year 1 Month After Moving In.

Matthew was quite enjoying his american life, He met a nice girl and today was the day she moved in with him. This is where the paranormal effects within the house start to get worse. Doors are slamming and bigger things are being moved around. They admit they have a problem. The movie ends after the most horrific night ending on a cliff hanger of does the girl die or not. The Scary effects that haunt them at this time include her cleaning her teeth and grabbing something from the cupboard and nothing being there. She’ll then put something back in the cupboard and something will be stood there in the reflection of the mirror.

Main Characters:

Matthew, The Main Business Man Character.

Sophie, The Girl that Matthew ends up with.

Louise, The neighbour who notices something in the house.

This trailer/film would need several extras for the party scene.

Comparison:

In both films they feature various different jump scares and scenes to make the viewer feel frightened or nervous. This is using visual and audio effects.

A Short Message Following my research.

Having completed my research I will now go on to jotting down some ideas of what My trailer will be about. To do this I need to briefly write a synopsis of a storyline that I will make.  As well as a short bio of some of the characters ect. This will be done from above using spider diagrams, drawings and writing on Microsoft Word.

How My Research Is Useful And What I Might Use It For.

How My Research Is Useful And What I Might Use It For.

In most trailers for paranormal horrors right before the ending there is a jump scare which would then end the trailer or show the films release dates. This is something I think I should most defiantly include in my final project. From my research I know that I defiantly need all the most thrilling points from the film but not give it away too much.

In my research I found out what some of the best techniques would be that they use in Paranormal horror films. These will be useful for getting the best shots and scare factor as I will call it for my trailer.

Research Report.

Report on my research.

I am writing this report so I can conclude on what research I have done and collate and to discuss my findings. Once I have completed this report it may be that I may want to do a little bit more research and this would be written on an additional newer blog post. 

When we realised what the tasks were me and Nikol grouped up and then went off to do some research, As we were both pretty set on doing a trailer for a film we went from there. I began by grabbing an A3 sheet of paper and using a brainstorm I jotted down every idea that I could think of to do with film trailers as well as any research I could think of at the time which I would need to do below is the scanned sheet of paper.

Me and Nikol then decided that we wanted to do a Paranormal horror trailer. I made a plan of everything I thought I needed to research on a word document and then went off by myself to research and jot down any ideas that came on my way. It involves what content and technical research I plan to do. My research Plan can be found here; (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XyXKICaxhK1ODKI4rzSGro-EnhA4sK4hxbReRn6Id6k).

I created a new document which I called "Researching the content of Three of Paranormal Horror Films". I decided to make a table where I could research three paranormal horror films. Summing up the storyline as well as some of the features and effects used. I watched three different films and then filled in this chart. After doing the chart I then went on to compare some of the features of the three films and discussed what I thought was really important in some of the films. This is including the lighting and the setup of the film as well as what gives the scarefactor if you will to the films. You can find this document here, (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1aJsZzhrdN87EJCR6K4ZlsquNR7St9IrwJ1WsU3SW2A0)

I have an scanned images of some notes we made when we watched paranormal activity 2 below. It includes about the storyline and notable events.

During my research I also had various talks with my tutor to discuss my research what we had and what we think we needed to have next to research below is the notes we created scanned in.

I also did a small amount of technical research for my trailer and this is the attached document to go with it, (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qUdJaOxBLwDTaJIGz4iyCNWBPrQJCxWYNPsmTxRByLo)

Project Plan.

I am also working with Nicole for the production of our project. 

Link to our project plan on excel:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HB6Z_Udq7KPOkra88movECnOTXLEJZzEI703XuUGMzU