The Strangers teaser trailer

This is the teaser trailer for The Strangers, we have decided that this is very similar to want we want to film.

Genre: You can tell that The Strangers is a horror film because the way that the shots are really quickly edited together and the music with the screams in it. Also the sound that connects all the house pictures together is very loud and dramatic and as it changes, the pictures start to get darker and the red lines become darker which show that it is a horror.

Narrative: Shows that they are in a house and that there are people on the outside of the house that want to kill them. The teaser starts of quite bright and happy and as it goes along it starts getting progressively worse.

Unique selling point: From the trailer you can't see clearly that they have a unique selling point, but when the woman went to the door and one of them whispering through the door is quite unusual.

Target Audience: The target audience for this film is 15 up to about 30, because this is the main audience that watches these type of films.

Music: The music starts off quite normal and happy but as the film becomes darker it begins to slow down. When the action starts it's loud music which fits in well with the action that is happening on screen.

Shot types/camera angles:

Pace: The pace of the teaser trailer starts off slow and begins to speed up gradually. After one of the killers says 'Your gunna die.' the pace suddenly picks up a lot and lots of shots are shown in a very short space of time.

Dialogue: There isn't a conversation between characters, there is only a few lines by each character that is spoken at different times.

Voice over:

Special effects: No CGI

Credits and intertitles:

Animatic

Shot List

A rough idea for our new ideas shot list is:

• Black screen
• Dips to white and you see a door slowly opening revealing a dark room
• The door gets wider and you see a little boy sitting in the corner looking sad
• A wall in the same room shows pictures on the walls with the eyes of the faces of the people cut out and crosses on there faces. The boy disappears
• The Boy appears again as you see him sitting in the corner
• We then see all the pictures on the wall again
• It goes back to the boy, he turns to look at the camera as it cuts to black
• We then see a flash of a long dark corridor
• We then see one of the victims running
• It then focuses on a weapon e.g. knife
• We then see hands covered in blood
• A body laying in a dark room
• Someone turning around looking scared
• More people running
• A sign saying something like "Your Dead"
• A flash of the little boy in the corner of the room
• Someone standing, we can see the legs they are looking out to a room, a knife in their hand covered in blood.
• More victims running
• A body wrapped in a blanket
• A hand opening a door
• Someone closing a mirror with the killer behind them
• More running
• The little boy standing looking at the floor
• The attacker putting his hand over the victims mouth and her gasping
• Black screen
• Titles of the film

Slideshow of shots for teaser trailer

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Soundtrack Research

For our soundtarck research we were discussing with each other if we were going to include a soundtrack in the teaser or if we were just going to have sound effects and the natural noise. We decided in the end that we were going to have a soundtrack.
After filming our film and editing it together we realised that our teaser starts off slow and then goes very fast so we thought this would be very difficult to find music that would fit, however we decided that we would have two different types of music one being very slow and then one being very quick and in the middle we put a crescendo, to separate the two parts of music.

Costume Ideas

These are the costume ideas we have chosen, the look for our characters will be casual. The younger boy will wear dark clothes to make him seem more dull and lonely.

(Pictures of Costume

Character Profiles

These are the Character profiles for our teaser, these will include the main people in our teaser and some minor characters.

Lewis (Me):
The first character is the boy at his teenage stage which will be seen the most. He will be played by Lewis.

Matty:
The second character will be the teenage boy as a younger neglected child. He will be played by my younger brother Matty. This will work well because we look similar so it is authentic.

Amy:
Another character will be one of the boys victims who will be played by Amy who is in my group. Her character will be one of the boys childhood "friends".


Chris:
Chris will play another one of the boys victims who is supposed to be one of the childhood friends.

Lauren:
Lauren will also play a victim, the sister of victim Amy.

Jess:
Jess will play another victim and will be one of the childhood friends of the boy.


David:
David will play a victim who will be running away from his attacker.

Final Idea Plot

A teenage boy played by me was neglected as a child by his family and apparent friends. As he grows into a teenager he starts to take revenge on the people who were supposed to care in his life, attacking them one by one.


Teaser Trailer Plot-

It will start from a black screen and you slowly see a door opening, sitting in the corner of the room is a neglected child. As the door opens wider it flashes between two images the boy sitting in the corner of the room and the wall behind him covered in pictures of people with there eyes cut out and blood over there faces. These two images flash between each other a couple of times then it cuts to the quick scenes that show the action, these scenes will include the boy attacking his victims and them trying to escape. It will end with the attacker putting his hand over one of his victims mouths.

Names for our New Idea

We have been thinking about names for our new idea. Some names include information about the film for example List.

Names so far:

The List
The Unknown
Death List
Punished
Neglected
Outcast
Vengeance
Revenge

So far we like Vengeance.

Font Research

Idea Change

We have decided to change our idea for our teaser trailer. We decided to do this because we felt that it seemed too much like an opening to a film instead of a teaser.

We have decided that we are going to have a lot more quick shots, which is more like conventional teaser trailers and a new storyline which is now set in a house.

Shot list ideas

• Characters Running.
• Titles.
• Focusing on objects e.g. a Door.
• Titles.
• Grabbing something or someone.
• Blood.
• Showing important things to the story.

Plot:

A troubled teenage boy takes revenge on a group of friends from his neglected past.