Additional Development

In conclusion to filming the different shots of the police to provide a stronger connection between them and the kidnapper, we now need to gain some footage of the kidnapper to show an interaction between them. The group have decided that if the kidnapped could talk on the phone to her then viewers would be able to hear his voice. In editing we will try to change this so it's deep and harsh sounding which has formed on the stereotype that males are usually thought to be the stronger gender. Also the voice forms a foundation the viewers have of the man's face. The scarier the voice, the scarier the image of face the viewers have. This can create the imagination to only think the worst of what he looks like, making them intrigued to then want to watch the film.

Developing our ideas

After a session of filming, uploading and editing our new footage we are now able to see what areas we need to film again and anything critical that we could add to make the horror trailer scarier than it is now.

More shots from the police scene need to be filmed which is planned to be taken place in a few days. We will have different angles of the same shot filmed so that we can choose the best when it comes the editing. These shots include: the police woman picking up phone, worried close ups of her(showing her stereotype of a worried female), police woman getting out the car, car door slamming, chase between police and kidnapper. This is so we can build a stronger connection between the kidnapper and police woman as the link is very vage currently. Once this has been edited in we will be able to visualise what needs to be done to help make the kidnapper build more tension. 

Inspiration from existing trailers

As filming and planning has been confused with filming, we have decided to look back at our research and analyse further as to what makes these existing trailers affective and scary. We started looking at 'The Call' and '30 Days of Night' and noted that in both of these trailers, a girl or woman is introduced in distress whether it is emotional or controlled, a build up is created followed by them being dragged away. Jodi, Chelsea and myself really took to this idea so decided to build a plan around this.

We liked the idea from the majority of our research into existing trailers that it is filmed at either dusk or night time. We had previously experimented with filming at night for the last plan, this did not turn out well as it was unclear and very hard to see the footage on the screen when it came to editing. We tried to ammend this by carrying out these shots in day, this took the eerie atmosphere away so have decided to take the idea of filming at dusk into action next time we film.

When things go wrong - 6/11/13

Unfortunately the group have came to the conclusion that the footage that we have is not very effective for a horror film so have needed to come back to basics and think through our ideas again. 

We have not started planning from scratch however, as we are still keen of idea of the mysterious man in a mask but have decided that we need to approach this in a different manner.

This upcoming weekend we have planned to carry out a few sessions of filming where we can hopefully in-cooperate our previous shots to make the new ones better.

Jodi Lee - Film Inception - Film Magazine