Detailed Story Idea

 

Our film trailer has been based on the children’s nursery rhyme “the Teddy Bears Picnic”. Like other nursery rhymes there is a sinister tone to parts of it; that inspired us to think of a creepy alternative to this popular tune, for example “Beneath the trees, where nobody sees, They'll hide and seek as long as they please …” this seems to be darker and would indicate something is amiss here.

Our story is about a young group of campers, who enter the wood were there has been a past history of killings; this is supposed to be a nice time enjoying nature, but this then changes into a night of hell. One of the girls starts to tell her friends of a story that involves a satanic ritual that happen in the very same wood, this unknown to them sets  of events that will change their attitude to the paranormal for ever, as they unknowing release a creature that has been forgotten by humanity and is hungry for flesh and blood. They happen to be in the same location that these horrific events took place; as they are ‘inspecting’ the tree one grazes their hand and blood is drawn, this is what brings the beast forward.

This then leads to an unforgettable night that will scar them forever; separated and alone, as they battle for their lives against an unprecedented enemy, in a wood that never seems to end, it seems uncertain whether they will survive the night …

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Trial Trailer

The Sandman

The task with this was to create a 30 second long trailer; this would help us to focus on our editting skills, and focus on the ideas behind creating a trailer.

Here what becomes apparent is that we needed to work on our placement of the clips; as it seems to linnear, that it follows the storyline too closely, here we need to be able to change the layout of the clips to make it more interesting, and to not give away the storyline just in the trailer.

What I think is good about the trailer is that we used clips that would build up the tension at the end of the trailer, such as: the hallway elongating. After this you have a transition after he jumps into bed, which then the camera focus’ on the moon which morphs into the Sandman, which links to his appearance in the house. My favourite bit is shown after the title: the camera focus’ on the child’s bed as the door opens; we see the light from the hallway enter into the child’s bedroom and it creates a scenerio that leaves the audience wondering … what will happen to the child. With this it does not give way the end of the story; but leaves it on a cliffhanger, which this would make the audience wonder about, what will happen next …

 

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