Trailer analysis

Group synopsis

Synopsis 

A group of friends go on a road trip to a music festival, but unfortunately, their car breaks down in a rural area, with no phone signal… One notices a small chalet park, where they meet the owner’s son, Victor. Victor tells them the park is closed for the winter, but they are more than welcome to stay in the workers room for the night. Victor welcomes them for a drink at the bar, where Lucy brings up the folktale of “Hangman”. Victor tries to encourage the fact it’s only a folk tale. Ella goes missing in the middle of the night, when she goes to get a bottle from the bar, for their chalet.  Her scream, get everyone’s attention making them split up, and look for clues. Drake and Megan go to the bar to find Victor, Harry goes to look and stumbles across the old, derelict park, which raises the questions, is this really shut for winter? And if it isn’t, what has caused it to shut? Joshua discover Ella’s bracelet along with newspaper scrapings in Victor’s cabin. A figure appears in the door way, wielding a large blade….Hangman. Cuts to black. Cuts back to Joshua being dragged out of the doorway by Hangman. After the second disappearance of Josh, the group realizes that Hangman is in fact real. Torture chambers, shattered glass and abandoned accommodation are discovered. The characters try to escape the derelict park and avoid the wrath of Hangman. The trailer ends with a demonic turn of the head from Hangman before a cut to black. Fin. 

My own film idea.

My own idea 

The idea I had for my own horror film was linked in with the sub-genre of supernatural. It would have involved a group of teenagers going round a friends for a birthday party. After awhile they decide to do a Ouija Board because the idea sounded fun. But they fail to do the prayer to keep evil spirits away. 

The teenagers start to talk to the evil spirit that comes through and they tell it that they aren't scared of him and to do its worse. This turns out to be a massive mistake as the spirit starts to torment them, until it eventually starts to kill them off one by one. It would end with one of the girls hiding in the bedroom, the rest of her friends killed, it will be very quite then all of a sudden something will grab her foot and she will be dragged under the bed screaming. The audience would not know what happens to her as it would quickly fade to black, but they could easily assume that the girl had been killed. 

With our own idea, we linked in the fact that it would involve teenagers as its a typical slasher horror film, which was our chosen sub-genre. We also incorporated that they will slowly get killed one by one. 

Planning record sheets

Audience and Institutions: The Woman in Black ( Watkins, 2012)

Audience and institutions - The Woman in Black from 40129

Film distribution and marketing: Paranormal activity:The marked ones

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