Unfinished Horror Trailer

Here is our unfinished horror trailer I exported today. As you can see, it is looking quite bland and lacking a lot of detail. Unfortunately there is not a lot of blood and iconography, which I feel we might need to add some extra shots we took to make our trailer 'complete'. However, I like the setting as the colour shade on most of the scenes are quite dark which adds an effect to a typical horror trailer in which we intended to convey. I think that this may be able to work as our end product if we tweaked it a little, adding more dramatic music and faster shots which will meet the typical horror requirements. We also need a bit more blood and iconography as I feel that we're slacking on that aspect at the moment. As this is not fully our horror trailer and only 14 seconds long, it is technically a teaser trailer which aims to give you a sense of what the outcome of the trailer intends to bring to audiences. We want our audience to be drawn into watching our trailer from the very opening scene and hope that it looks very realistic.

Music Used In Our Trailer

 
Here is the music we are going to use in our horror trailer. As it is labelled 'Scary Chase Music', this was intentional as we want to meet the horror genre. This music is extremely sinister and has a sense to make an audience member feel on edge as it is quite daunting and menacing. We decided to import it into Premiere for our trailer, as we want to have this drive which will keep audience members watching our trailer. This also links in to our chase scene as the music begins to speed up as the victim is being chased by the villain. This is a typical horror aspect as there is always conventionally a 'chase' scene which can really drive the narrative. It is used to keep audience members watching as they want to know what is going to happen to villain, asking questions about whether they are going to get killed or not. This also highlights Roland Barthes' enigma code because it makes audiences ask the question, who done it? As the villain in our trailer's identity is hidden at first, this will interlink with his theory as no one will know who the villain really is.

Script

Print Screens For Our Trailer

Print screens from loisdouglas01

Here are all the shots we have taken for our trailer. We highlighted the shots that we wanted to use in our trailer so that we could import them a lot more easily. As you can see, most of the shots appear the same in which we wanted in case we wanted to action match a shot or use a similar shot which might have not worked before. The first shots didn't work as some of them were out of focus or badly placed on the tripod. As some of the typing on my print screens are quite small, here are some of the quotes I stated 'I felt that this clip wouldn't work as the character had her back towards the audience and we wanted the audience to see the chain which is symbolic as it  is the main symbol in our trailer'. & 'You can see the characters shoes in these shots which doesn’t look very professional as she is supposed to be a dead person. The best image would be if she looked as if she’s just come back from the dead with no shoes on'. 

Timeline Of Our Trailer

As you can see from above, here is the timeline of our trailer in which our narrative will follow. As we have a close deadline, we decided to import all of the clips we intend to use in the final trailer. We will show our target audience this video so that they can give us feedback. We will therefore use their feedback and insert it into our trailer so that it looks more successful. At the moment, I believe that our rough cut of our trailer looks decent but could look a lot more effective. I believe that when we begin to insert more horror genre iconography, it will look more effective and meet the typical horror genre conventions. I also believe that the lighting in the trailer needs to be different which should be quite dark and eerie which will hopefully meet the horror genre aspects. There needs to be faster scenes which will build up tension and then we should have a cliffhanger which leaves audiences wanting more as they obviously suspect bad things to happen to the victim. If we make all of these changes, our trailer could be successful.

Updated Shot/Prop List

As you can see from this post, this is the updated shooting schedule in which my group and I will undergo when filming next. We have set out this schedule in order to be able to tell when group members are free to shoot for the trailer. Luckily we have a lot of time together to shoot so that our trailer will be in the editing process soon. As we have planned out this schedule, we intend to stick to it so that we can get our filming process finished. We will then move onto editing our trailer which will be the process which will take the longest so we have to make sure that our filming is done up to a high and proficient level.

Inspiration For Our Horror Trailer