Throughout the film trailer, we want the audience to be in suspence, therefore theres certain elements that they will find out in the trailer, such as establishing the characters and clips of the main events that occur throughout the film, but they do not reveal what is actaully going to happen. However, these are meant to be short clips dedicated to make the audience more anxious to see the film. The following things we want and do not want to audience to know are:
What we want the audience to find out?
· Mia is the killer
· Establishing characters
· Establishing locations
· Relationship between characters
· Hints of tempting murder
· Sonia is the main character
· Links to other media e.g.: Cinderella, Dark Knight and mean girls
What we don’t want the audience to find out?
· That two of the characters actually die
· That the main and last girl remaining (Sonia) does not die
· That Sonia kills Mia – good over evil theory, however not as expected.
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Script For Trailer
The film trailer starts off with the main character Mia sitting in the school library, reading in a variety of educational and fictional books. She seems contempt and dedicated to her work, she is dressed smartly, her hair tied up, a collar shirt and a casual pair of jeans, she also wears glasses on her face along with a carrier rucksack to make her seem ‘goofy’. The editing in the scene will be slow as the camera work must portray a lonely yet timid character that would never be associated with committing a crime or doing evil deeds.
The next shot introduced the three other characters, Sonia, Karren and Jodey walking down the corridor to establish that they are popular and contrasts to Mia. We then see the characters face to face with each other and tension should be conveyed. The next shots shows the popular girls pushing the hurting Mia, her books fall on the floor as well as herself, one of the main popular girls, Sonia, pick up the fairy tale book (Cinderella) and mocks her then finishes by ripping it up. The trailer will then sound the girl’s laughter through non-diegetic sound. The camera then zooms as a close up of her face looking distorted and like a physco, suggesting something bad is going to happen.
The next shot shows one of the mean girls (Karren) on her own texting outside the school grounds, the camera seems to be behind the bush of some sort, suggesting that she is being worked. The only thing we see is that she is being strangled and her body dragged off in short quick cuts. A piece of the Cinderella book is left at the crime scene like the joker in ‘The Dark Knight’ film. Whilst the other’s are wondering where she is, Mia is keeping a close eye on them, and a variety of quick snappy shots are used to show this.
The following shot shows the other girl Jodey holding her mascara brush and seeing Mia’s reflection in the mirror, we then see a knife in Mia’s hand, the audience will not know whether she is dead or not. While this is taking place, Sonia looks around the local area trying to call her friends, however gets no answer, a short clip will be shown of the phone in her hand and her frustratingly putting it down, a variety of quick cuts will be used as well as a dramatic sound track.
Towards the end of the trailer, Sonia walks into the girls bathroom and screams, the audience however does not know what she is screaming about to keep them in suspense. She then runs into the woods and trips and falls, the last shot shows a low angle view of Mia walking towards her with a knife, then the caption and name of film appears on the screen. The last shot used will be used to spook the audience as Mia will unexpectedly jumps out in front of Mia with a scary looking appearance.
The next shot introduced the three other characters, Sonia, Karren and Jodey walking down the corridor to establish that they are popular and contrasts to Mia. We then see the characters face to face with each other and tension should be conveyed. The next shots shows the popular girls pushing the hurting Mia, her books fall on the floor as well as herself, one of the main popular girls, Sonia, pick up the fairy tale book (Cinderella) and mocks her then finishes by ripping it up. The trailer will then sound the girl’s laughter through non-diegetic sound. The camera then zooms as a close up of her face looking distorted and like a physco, suggesting something bad is going to happen.
The next shot shows one of the mean girls (Karren) on her own texting outside the school grounds, the camera seems to be behind the bush of some sort, suggesting that she is being worked. The only thing we see is that she is being strangled and her body dragged off in short quick cuts. A piece of the Cinderella book is left at the crime scene like the joker in ‘The Dark Knight’ film. Whilst the other’s are wondering where she is, Mia is keeping a close eye on them, and a variety of quick snappy shots are used to show this.
The following shot shows the other girl Jodey holding her mascara brush and seeing Mia’s reflection in the mirror, we then see a knife in Mia’s hand, the audience will not know whether she is dead or not. While this is taking place, Sonia looks around the local area trying to call her friends, however gets no answer, a short clip will be shown of the phone in her hand and her frustratingly putting it down, a variety of quick cuts will be used as well as a dramatic sound track.
Towards the end of the trailer, Sonia walks into the girls bathroom and screams, the audience however does not know what she is screaming about to keep them in suspense. She then runs into the woods and trips and falls, the last shot shows a low angle view of Mia walking towards her with a knife, then the caption and name of film appears on the screen. The last shot used will be used to spook the audience as Mia will unexpectedly jumps out in front of Mia with a scary looking appearance.
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