Planning and Research: Proposal 1

Proposal One-

A group of six friends decide to go camping in the nearby woods and all is well and happy. Then, one of the characters mysteriously goes missing and the other characters cannot find him. As the character's begin to become more suspicious, one by one more start to vanish and the remaining characters become petrified and panicked. Whilst the characters try to escape the woods to find help, they realise there is no way out and they're lost: there only hope is to find out what has happened to the missing characters, but little do they know that alien mythical creatures have been stalking and hunting them.

Editing-
At the beging, the editing shall be at an average pace because everything is normal and at calm. This will also create realism for the trailer as I believe horror trailers should be realistic to make it feel more believable and scary for the audience. As the trailer proceeds; the editing will increase and become more panicky- jumping from one shot to a totally different one. Straight cuts will be used mainly, as well as jump cuts. Fade-to-blacks will be a key content to our trailer, as we believe this editing transition represents the Horror genre successfully as it is a popular editing technique that horror trailers use. Slow motion may also be used.

Sound-
The non-diegetic music will be eerie and slow at the start; it will be an underlying remaining tone throughout diegetic dialogue of the characters being happy and excited to create suspense and to let the audience know of the darker side to the trailer straight away. As the trailer procedes and the darker side to the film is fully revealed, the music will crescend and get louder and scarier matching the panic of the characters. There will be diegetic sounds of screams and we are thinking of maybe having a non-diegetic seductive whisper for the voice over saying the title. The trailer will end with a loud sting to end on a scary note and make the trailer want to be watched by an audience.

Cinematography-
The shots will start off very naturalistic such as over-the-shoulder shots and medium shots to create the sense that the viewer is actually with the six characters and are part of the film. Extreme Long Shots will also be used to show how the characters are in the open space, and to also highlight that they are a long way a way from socialisation. We will try to achieve a birds-eye-view shot of the dead bodies because we feel this shot will take it into the fantasy element because it is not a realistic view of things at all and also because this is where the fantasy element is present because the characters realise there are non-human creatures with them in their surroundings.

Mise-en-scene-
The location for our trailer will be the woods and it will be low key lighting to signify the genre. Costumes that the teenagers are wearing will be casual dress that the average teenager wears, nothing too extreme but not insignificant as it will represent their character type. Fake blood will be used on the dead characters also. Props will include the tent and camping gear such as torches and bags etc. The mythical creatures will be very colourful and extraordinary in their make-up and costume, giving distinctive but scary non-human looks.