New Narrative

• Riley is walking home by herself, going to visit her relative's (that died) grave.
• She finds a necklace as she puts down some flowers by her relative's grave.
• She takes the necklace and wears it.
• She goes home
• As she is sleeping, the person (unnatural being) she took the necklace from comes into her room.
• NEXT DAY
• Riley is sitting in lesson and feels the presence of someone staring at her through the window.
• The person stares at her through the window (Halloween inspired Michael Myers)
• Classmate asks her where she got her necklace from
• She tells her that she found it by her relative's grave. 
• Classmate tells her that she should return the necklace as soon as possible as she might wake the dead.
• NEXT DAY
• Riley returns the necklace to the grave. 

Production Logos

As you can see, here is a snippet of our introductory clip for our trailer. As I said earlier, our production company will feature before our marketing company, this is how it will appear on our trailer. I believe that the text looks quite sinister as there are drops of blood and red around the text. It also appears as if it's coming out of the screen. This is used so that it applies to the typical villain coming out at you and grabbing you. Also, the blood is used as iconography.

Logo

Here is a logo Dawn designed for our production. I believe that it looks very creative and could be effective as our Production is called 'cut throat' hence the blood. This will appear at the beginning of our trailer as it will be in association with a marketing company. As a group, we decided that the logo will gradually get bigger as it moves closer towards the screen and then there will be a black screen in which our trailer will follow on from shortly after.

Final Girl Theory

My group and I decided to use Carol Clover's final girl theory in our horror trailer as we felt that it related to the name of our trailer the most. As our trailer is called 'The Voyeurist' we felt that women are the most targeted when stalking. As a group, we decided on the name for our main character in our upcoming horror trailer. We chose the name 'Riley' as we wanted to include the final girl theory (Carol J Clover). 'Riley' is a unisex name and she follows the final girls theory's convention as she abstains from sex and does not drink alcohol. Also having a unisex name, Riley has some masculine aspects about her which further highlights her bravery and admiration as an 'alpha female'. Riley faces close to death experiences in our trailer, but will always come out surviving. As she is being stalked/watched this will highlight her bravery as she will know that someone is watching her, however will go into dark settings to face the villain. This will be the beginning of an enigma code.

Test Shots

Here are some test shots from our previous narrative.

List Of Shots Used For Our Trailer

Shots we intend to use for our trailer

• Close ups
• Low/ High angles
• Wide shots

Close Up 

The close up will be used to show the final girl. As the final girl is brave and almost innocent, the close ups will convey this aspect. There will also be close ups of the villain although their face will never be shown. This will give off a suspicious sense as audiences will want to find out more about the villains past and why they are chasing the final girl (Riley). 

Low Angle

Low angles will be used to show the final girls dominance and authority as she is brave. Most of the low angle shots will be of the final girl glaring at the villain. It will also show a binary opposition as most of the time, the final girl will be shot in the light and the villain in the dark. This enhances light versus dark. Another binary opposition which will be made apparent throughout will be good vs evil. The good character will be shot from a low angle to show their bravery, although sometimes shot from a high angle to show that they are weak. The villain will be similar, however most of the time shot from a low angle to show their power. 

Wide Shot

A wide shot will convey a running or an escape scene. It will enhance Barthes' enigma code, which will highlight the aspect of 'who done it? A scene that will be symbolic in our trailer will be the running scene of the hero/final girl running away from the villain. This is a typical aspect from a horror trailer which moves the narrative. It also makes the audience feel on edge as the villain is never really shown. We only see the final girl running away and looking scared. We intend for the scene to be sped up so that it gives more of an eerie sense. 

Cast List

Riley - Sharna Hylton

Lilith Woods (Villain) - Dawn Gallant

Classmate - Lois Douglas