Location Ideas

The locations that my group have thought about fit in well with the trailer. At the start of the trailer was are including a clip of the five best friends walking though the corridor, and the best place to shoot this scene was in our school corridor because it sets the scene for the trailer and also shows how popular the group of friends are.
The second location for our trailer is a our school again, but there is a place where it looks like a house, so we decided to film the party scene there instead of filming it at someones house. The reason why we decided to change the location for this scene was because when we thought about how we could do it, we thought of the problem that how are we going to get that many people to the location. By changing the location makes it a lot easier for us because, everyone would be there because we have a school, so it would be easily to film everyone.

Filming a certain scene in the forrest is very important for our trailer, so we are lucky that we have a forrest right next to tour school which means that, it makes it easier for us to transport the equipment form the school to the location. When we are filming the forrest scene, at first we wanted to film it when it gets really dark but when we really thought about it we realised that filming when it is really dark the quality gets worse. So we decided to film as its getting dark so about 4.

The Narrative

Five girls who’ve been best friends for seven years have received their results for their final year of college and are pleased with what they have received. Because of this, the girls decide to throw a party in celebration of their hard work. The girls have made a reputation for themselves over the years and are very popular amongst their peers – especially Aisha who is the leader of the group.

Three years before this Aisha, Seda, Leyla and Stephanie went on a road trip however Tiffani couldn’t make it as she had to attend a family wedding. On the car journey home, the girls had too much to drink which resulted in a car accident and a young male was killed. When the girls rushed out to see what had happened they realised that they had accidently hit their best friend Tiffani’s boyfriend. In a panic, they got back in the car and drove away never speaking of what happened that night again.

The next day the group set out to prepare for their fancy dress party and it wasn’t long before their friends started flooding in.  During the party, a mysterious figure kept appearing within the crowd however; because it was fancy dress no one suspects anything.

After a great night of partying, the five best friends pass out (from tiredness) at Aisha’s house and are woken by a loud noise during the early morning. As they get up the girls notice that Tiffani is not there but they are not alarmed as she is very ‘adventurous’ and often goes off on her own. However not long after, Leyla and Stephanie notice a trail of blood leading outside and quickly inform the rest of the group.  The four remaining friends fear the worst and start searching frantically for missing Tiffani. As they run outside to search for her, trails of her belongings such as her phone, bracelet etc. are found in the garden and the girls begin to panic.

Moments later, a scream can be heard not too far from the house and so the girls decide to split up to look for her. Leyla and Seda are too scared to go out alone (as they play the innocent, shy and nerdy characters) and therefore end up going out together. Aisha and Stephanie go into a wood type location, whereas the others stay in familiar territory and look for their friend in areas close by.

The girls agreed to meet back every half an hour at a spot near the house to get updates on each other’s findings however one by one, at every meet up, another girl disappears. As Aisha and Stephanie explore the woods in the hopes of finding their best friend, Aisha catches a glimpse of the mysterious hooded figure that was present at their house party. She quickly turns to tell Stephanie but she is nowhere to be seen.

After half an hour, Seda and Leyla go back to the meeting point to tell the others that they have had no luck but already waiting is distressed Aisha. She tells the others that Stephanie has also vanished and about the hooded figure she saw in the woods. The group then decided that it would be safer to stay together and so they set off for the final time in the hopes of finding their two best friends.

The girls reach the woods a final time still desperately searching for their friends when suddenly a loud noise startles them and they start to run. Aisha trips and falls over a mysterious object but soon realises that it is the foot off Stephanie who has been buried and covered with leaves. Before she even gets the chance to scream the villain covers her mouth and drags her away.

After a tiring struggle, she manages to break free, and out of nowhere, Seda hits the villain over the head with a log of wood and the hooded figure falls to the ground. The three girls struggle to reveal the identity of the villain but when they do they come to the shocking discovery that it’s their best friend, Tiffani.

In disbelief the three friends ask her if all of this was some sort of joke but they soon realized that she was far from playing games. Tiffani then hurtfully explained how she knew what they had done to her boyfriend three years ago and thought that through getting revenge, she could finally move on and get on with her life.

Aisha, Leyla and Seda began to cry and tried to explain how sorry they were and that the whole situation was an accident. Tiffani began to get angry and pulled out a knife from inside the hoodie. She proceeded to stab Aisha and the others but before she got the chance to the ‘thought-to-be-dead’ Stephanie appeared out of nowhere and turned the knife back on her, stabbing her in the side.

Story Boarding

Before films and trailers are made the ideas of how the film/trailer is going to look is story boarded. The storyboard is created by showing what is going to be happening in each shot, and in each shot you can illustrate and write what is going on, who's going to be in that shot, where is it going to be and how long it is going to be on screen for. After storyboarding creating the trailer/film becomes much easier because you now know what is in every shot. Story boarding was developed at the Walt Disney Studio during the early 1930s.

Pretty Little Liars season 1 trailer

The Pretty Little Liars season 1 trailer 

Pretty Little Liars has influenced our idea for our narrative and trailer, because we thought the story line in the series was very clever and could work well in a film. The have taken some elements from the series such as the main characters in our trailer will be five best friends, and one of them goes missing and as the girls goes looking for her, and they go also go missing one by one. The series and our trailer will have many things in common but the important one is that the trailer will be about the best friends trying to find their missing friend. The big twist in the end is going to be different from the series because the missing best friend will be the one who is taking the girls and tormenting them for something they had done in the past.

Narrative ideas

I have displayed our narrative ideas through a brainstorm, because I think it shows the different ideas well and displays the different avenues we have thought about.

Fears in Society

Fears in society can be included in films making it more personal to the audience, and it can make the audience more scared because they will fear that what happens in the horror film can come true and take over. Some fears in society are:

• Unemployment 
• New illnesses
• Crime becoming more frequent 
• Drugs 
• School shootings 
• Climate change 
• Natural disasters 
• Murders 
• Being watched by the government 
• Terrorism 
• Riots 
• Injustice 
• Ghosts 
• Loss of loved ones 
• Rape
• Stalking 
• The economy 
• Technology 
• Inmigration 
• Fear of the unknown 
• Mental health
• Taking religion too far
• Loneliness

My group

For creating our real trailer that goes towards our final grade we were put into small groups. In my group I was put with Jodie and Precious, I was very happy with my group because we all have an area in which we are strong in. Also we all get on and have a clear vision of what we want our trailer to look like and be about.