We both discussed our favourite horror films and what it was about them that we found so gripping. Films like The Orphan and Paranormal Activity have been a huge mass market success within the horror genre proving that this is extremely popular and current which is why we have decided to create our own horror film.
Our initial idea was a narrative based on the idea of stolen identity within a school setting. A brief plot of the trailer is
"A girl (Belle) is late for school so takes a shortcut through nearby fields where she notices some is watching her. She receives a phone call from an unknown number where she hears heavy breathing on the other end. She arrives and school and later on, she goes back to her classroom to find another girl (Cindy) sitting in her seat who appears to have stolen her identity. Unknown to Belle, Cindy has a room full of photos, files and facts about her. Throughout the trailer, Belle regularly sees Cindy's reflection instead of her own but when she turns around, she is never there. At the end of the trailer, Belle discovers Cindy's room dedicated to her when suddenly she door begins to open behind her..."
In order to express our ideas, we created a story board of the main points within our trailer. By doing this, we were able to see areas in which we needed to develop our idea further and ways we could improve the narrative.
We then created a mind map of ideas and produced a questionnaire which we asked our target audience of people aged 15+ to complete. We asked both students and teachers to complete the questionnaire as we wanted to gain a broad set of responses. Stereotypically, males are supposed to watch more horror films than women but due to the fact our film is not a gruesome or grotesque horror we asked both genders to gain different point of views.
Filming
Before we start filming, we had a disscussion to plan our ideas where we decided on locations, speech and costumes amongst other things. As a result of this, we were fairly confident in our filming abilities and the mise en scene relating to our film.
Rosie and I were in the actors involved in our trailer meaning we can film during media lessons without having to disrupt other peoples lessons- this is means we have at least 5 hours a week of filming. We planned our shots and camera angles we wanted to use before filming to organise ourselves and save time when we went to film. We soon realised that in order to get the perfect shot, it was extremely likely that we would need to have more than one attempt at this. Having underestimated this factor, we only set aside a small amount of time to shoot our opening sequence. However, once we realised that this was the case, we made sure we gave ourselves plenty of time to record footage.
As we were both filming and acting, we didn't have to rely on others and were able to film whenever we wanted instead of needing to organise times with other people. Similarly, most of the footage is in school- this was particularly practical as we are already in the building so it was convenient for us both. A benefit of this is that as we were already in school, we were able to film a section of our trailer and get automatic feedback from our teacher and see if anything needed to be changed.
The costumes used for our roles were our school uniforms- this was to establish that we are school pupils ourselves allowing the audience to relate to the characters. Throughout the trailer, both characters are wearing purple blouses. This was purposely done to show the connection between the characters as well as suggesting possible idolisation from Cindy to Belle.
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