Planning Teaser Trailer - Number 1

Our coursework aim is to create a one minute teaser trailer using a film that we have created. We began planning and came up with two teaser trailers. The first is a horror film called The List.

The Narrative of 'The List' is about a girl (who remains anonymous throughout the teaser trailer) who was bullied and is looking for revenge. She discovers that she has special telekinesis powers, which put those people that have bullied her lives at risk. Because of the violent, traumatic and emotional contents that this film contains, we decided to rate it a 15. We wanted to make it a major production with a high budget because we thought that this type of movie links to alot of major productions, For example, films like Final Destination, The Knowing and Hostel (further research on these films in seperate blog).

The target audience for this film is horror fans, teenagers and people 15 onwards. These target audiences would be alot more suitable for this film because they can sympathise alot more with the situation the main character is in. In addition to this, our group decided that the demographic audience would consist of the following: Skilled manual workers to the unemployed; builders, plumbers, students and casual workers etc. The psychogrpahic audience would be "Explorers and strugglers".

We all had many ideas for the teaser trailer, and in the end decided that we were going to settle for a girl who is sitting in the dark in a classroom scratching the names of her victims onto the table. We were going to use soundefects such as footsteps and sctratching noises but in the end decided to just use the scratching noises, as it resembles the scratching of the names in the table. It also creates an eerie noise which represents horror and the building of tension. To create enigma we kept the girls face anonymous by hiding her face, possible with a hood over her head. She is the main character of the film and the USP is a female killer.

The teaser trailer will begin with the girl walking alongside a long corridor. Cutting noises would be put in on every cut that is made, and will gradually fasten in pace to create tension.