Initial Ideas - Production Meeting 1

To begin our project, we had to start producing a production team name. After playing around with different ideas, we finalized on the name 'paranoia productions'. This came from the group discussion from which we had organized 2 main ideas for a storyline and plot for our chosen style of horror film. As we expanded our collaborative ideas we started to narrow down what makes a horror teaser trailer successful, what type of audience we want to promote our film trailer towards and how we can use our knowledge of existing trailers to develop our understanding and eventually put it into practice when we begin filming ourselves.

We mind mapped our 2 favourite ideas and began to experiment with different possibilities and locations that could work for the trailer and the audience appeal. Features of a typical horror trailer include darkness, abandoned areas, little light, shrieking, rapid cuts and much more. To achieve the ultimate shots we began considering the dynamic of our trailer and what we wanted to include and what wouldn't necassarily work as well. 


As we progressed we also began to consider looking at previous students trailers and what features we feel worked the best and could apply to the creation of our trailer. Insidently, we also discovered that rapid cuts and secretive shots, i.e. showing minimal action in the form of short bursts of footage worked really well. They also helped to emphasize the suspense and dramatics of the plot.