Research and Planning: Suitable and Non-Suitable Trailers

Suitable: Blair Witch Project

Blair Witch Project would be a perfect trailer to be influenced by because it is extremely stylistic into making the film and the trailer believable and realistic to create maximum horror and suspense. Although the set and plot is simple, it is effective in the long-run. It would be easy to immitate as there are little cast, the location (the woods) is free and also the use of handheld camera's works for it in the sense of it feeling like 'own footage'. This is a trailer our group will be heavily influenced by, however we do want to add our own twist and flavour to it so its not full on copying. Having said that, The Blair Witch Project will be a trailer ours would be compared to.



Non-Suitable: Sorority Row

Sorority Row would be a hard trailer to be influenced by as there are so many different scenes which look as if there has been a lot of planning and money gone into creating, which is good and effective for them but we simply don't have enough time or enough budget to create this type of trailer. The cast list is also big as there are a lot of extra's and a lot of main characters; which would be difficult to construct and work with. The use of explosions is a point too. Although this is a good trailer, the direction and tone of our trailer will be different to Sorority Row and also, even if we did want to be influenced by this trailer we wouldn't have enough time or money.