Original Film Idea

Horror Film Idea

 

Opening scene starts off with a young woman/teen preparing for a day at college, she is not the most popular girl in school, as you can tell by her appearance, but she still has that good looking style to her. We see a small montage with a happy song of her preparing for her day ahead. Once she arrives at college, we see she is not the most popular girl in college by the way she is treated by her peers. She is bullied for her appearance and the way she acts, which in the simplest terms of describing it is 'nerdy'. Whilst standing within a group of people waiting to get into class, she is accidentally invited to a halloween party at the end of the week, by one of the more popular students, when he invites the whole group at once. All week leading up to the party, she is having strange visions and night terrors, that are a little more real than she beleieves, they all seem to relate to her peers dying, these scenes are very brutal, involving dismembering and lots of gore, but they are shown in an almost dream state, to make it seem a little more eary, we never see the killers face in these scenes, leading the audience to put there own worst fears into the killers persona, but when it comes to the final 'last fight scene' we will see the kilelrs face, just to leave the audience satisfied, yet shocked at who it was. After these night terrors and visions she has, in which certain people from her college die, these people do not turn up to college the next day, she tries to tell people about it, but they just shrug her off, thinking that these are stories and rumours around college, and certain characters, such as the police, even try to tell her off, for creating such sick stories, as they want to believe the best scenario will come around. At the end of the week after a lot of paranoia and disturbances, she is still forced to go to the party by her slightly 'slutty' friend, as she believes that it will give her a chance to relax, and just go a little crazy, some ironic term will be used here to add a small bit of humour to some of the audience, such as 'it will be a killer night'. So she decides to take her friends advice and go to the party, even though she has a lot of fears about what will happen. When they arrive, there is only a handful of people that actually turn up to the party, the host believes that people are just late, and will be here soon, and keeps trying to tell himself that he is popular and that people like him, there is a knock at the door, the host presumes it to be more guests and jumps up in excitement, when he opens the door, no one is there, as he shuts the door, our villain sneaks in the back, and starts picking off the other students one by one, until there is just the host our protagonist and her friend left, we have the epic battle in which the host then dies protecting the girls, and our protagonist is the only one left, yet she fights back, temporarily disabling the villain, escaping, leading to a chase scene in which the villain seems to ironically be making a lot more mistakes now, and failing to kill this one girl, the protagonist eventually believes to have killed him, and believes to be the sole survivor that manages to escape the murderers clutches, following the stereotyped role of the virgin woman in the horror films genre, but the villain is not dead, we see a hint of life in him, that leaves the door open for a sequel movie.

Analysis of horror trailer 2

I was looking at the SAW7 3D trailer as it contains some great aspects of a horror trailer, the first thing that I notice in a horror trailer that makes me want to go and watch the film, is that it does not give away the best parts of the film, it will still show the action and perhaps some parts leading upto the deaths of the characters, but it will leave the audience anticipating more, and want to go and see the film to find out what happens.

We see a torture device headiing toward someone, but do not see their fate.

You do not see this a lot in other genres of film trailers, for example, in a comedy trailer, they will tend to use one or two of the best jokes within the film, so as an audience, we will think that it is funny, but when we go to view the film, it does not meet our expectations. I also like the idea of a montage of shots toward the end of the trailer, as the tension builds up, so does the speed; we start the trailer with a nice slow pace, matching the drama, and what is going on within the narrative of the trailer, but as we go through and the tension builds, the speed of the shots changes, the frequency of the shots increases and the tempo of the music increases all at the same time to make the trailer look as good as it can, and draw more people in to see the film itself.