Storyboard for Trailer

During our planning, we designed a storyboard that will guide us through while we are shooting our trailer. We also provided a clip by clip commentary showing, the different techniques, camera shots/positions and edits that we will use.

Pitching our film narrative

In our lesson with both teachers and the class present, as a group we pitched the beginning idea's of our horror film and what would go into the trailer, we did this in order to gain audience feedback as part of research.

We originally pitched the idea of:

At the beginning a young family are travelling, they have a car crash in which the child dies and the parents survive. Throughout the car journey the child was singing a lullaby. As the film continues the reoccurring theme would be the lullaby being heard and the dead child being seen by the parents.

After we had pitched our idea, the class and our teachers asked us questions and suggested ideas that might improve and add to our trailer further. By doing this it was good to get audience feedback, in a discussion group. This will only help us to improve our coursework further and not hinder it in any way.

Some of the suggestion were; the idea of the child just reappearing throughout the trailer and not doing anything, was weak. This made us re-think this idea and we made it more interesting, now the child is more involved and does things to its mother i.e. pushing her down the stairs, this shows the child's thirst for revenge, as her parents appear to have moved on.

Another comment that was made was that we needed something extra in the car crash seen, like a tipping point that caused the crash in the first place. From this criticism we decided that an argument between the parents would cause the crash, so then the audience would witness why the parents feel the guilt they do, as they are the reason their child died.