Initial Thoughts + Ideas

For my film I set my ideas upon a film setting like “Paranormal Activity” as this was a low budget screening so I thought the setting, background and horror clips would be replicable to create in my own house. My first thoughts were on creating a horror film as this genre work in my opinion brilliantly in teaser trailers using its most dramatic points to attract the audience where I would target teenagers who are looking for a film that will scare them. The factors I would look to devise in my trailer which are in the Parnaormal activity trailer is the haunted house, the younger person haunting the older people and the ways in which the haunted girl teases them i.e with the bed scene.

My film trailer ideas consisted of an average couple who move into a possessed house for a getaway weekend. When getting to the house everything will seem perfect but of course it won’t be. When the night falls a little girl dressed in black showing off a gothic look will tease, haunt and scare the couple out of the house but will she succeed? Will the couple fight back? These are all questions that will be posed and left unanswered so that to find them out they will have to see the film. The girl and the house seem attached. The location house is spooky at night and but quite attractive in the day deceiving the couple who arrive then. However important the plot may be to a film, I’m not making a film so the plot is less important. My main desire will be to attract the audience using the film’s most dramatic and climatic points to wow the audience.

The basic amenities of my trailer will therefore be an average couple who are haunted my a young girl, reasons for her haunting them could be past events, avengence etc. which would set up brilliantly for the title, a crucial part of my film package.

However these ideas were just very brief and my very first thoughts on what my teaser trailer would consist of. I needed to know which genre I was going to use and I needed to research this on YouTube looking at trailers of each genre.