Monday, 25 February 2013

Synopsis for our original horror trailer- Torment.

 
After a lot of decision making, coming up with various ideas we finally made a final decision on the idea for our horror trailer. It is about a group of 4 young teenagers currently studying at college- 3 boys and a girl. The three boys are one day walking  through a forest near their college when one stops and suddenly notices a plaque on a tree which is in rembrance of a previous college student. The other two then stop and then ask whether he knows about that or not where he doesn't but they both do. The plaque is in memory of the student as he was killed when going ghost hunting. Before even seeing the plaque and finding out about the student as a group they all had the idea to originally go ghost hunting and this incident hasn't stopped their idea. They all go back to one of the boys house and look into ghost hunting in more depth eventually finding a location where they can go and do this which was an abandoned house. They all go there one cold night investigating. They go off and the group are shown joking around in the car and then the headlights are shown of the car pulling up at the house. The group are then shown in the house looking around investigating where the girl then goes missing. One of the boys is about to try and contact her via his mobile. It shows him lifting the phone to his ear when all of a sudden it is whipped from his hand anonymously. The group are then shown panicking and shouting where there is jaggered movement of the camera. The other two boys have now gone missing also. It then shows the only boy left who is holding the camera (from the cameras pov) running through a forest getting away from the house as they all felt suspicion whilst there. Suddenly he and the camera drop to the floor where he sounds lifeless. The camera lays still and the missing girl appears with a short, intimidating laugh. She had killed him. The trailer then ends. We decided to go with this idea for our trailer as we thought that it was slightly unique as well as different and that it would stand out.
 

Original Questionnaire

 
Shown above is a copy of my original questionnaire which I created as research for our created horror film trailer for - Torment. I created a total of 12 questions for the Questionnaire based around the genre of horror. I asked quiestions based around what audience members would  expect from horror films also. This allowed me to gain an in depth understanding of what different members of the audience are interestred in and what they would prefer to see in horror movies so that I could place some of this content into our created horror movie trailer. This is why the questions on my questionnaire are very important. Overall I would say that the questionnaire on a whole is an extremley important piece of research as it allows me too identify audience members needs and interests which then allows me to tailer our own movie tailer to these.  I got a total of 10 people to answer my questionnaire where I also used the form of email to send 2 of the questionnaires too 2 people out of the 10.