Hello and welcome to C.A.T news, we bring you breaking news
this early morning of January 29 2006, a body has been found on the grounds of
East Norfolk Sixth Form, a suspected student, we have no leads so far as to
whether it is of malicious intent but as you can see people are already showing
their respects(.) East Norfolk will be closed until further notice(2) this has come as a real shock to the principle and quite
possibly every member of staff and every student here at East Norfolk as EN is
known as a friendly and safe college and received an Ofsted report of good only
last year.
Dialogue between Two main Characters-
Good Student:Whats the point in staying after college if you're not going to do any work?
Bad Student: My dad's making me(.) I'm going to the toilet
establishing shot- front of college news report from front of college about missing student- mid shot of reporter newspaper articles- close up janitors house- janitor sitting on bed, head in hands- close up- voice over still going from news report
classroom- one lacking off, one doing work- close up of date on computer- present day - pan out to show Curtis on computer and other student - close up of each characters - shot of computer with work, computer with online shopping and hands on phone - mid-shot of lacking student 'I'm going to the toilet' corridor- lacking off student walking to toilets - different shots from different angles of her walking toilets- student with back to exit door and on phone- behind -over the shoulder now revealing the janitor behind close up of students phone tweeting 'I'm so bored' over the shoulder shot- mirror, reflection of janitor looking at student -janitor grabs student classroom- good student looking around, checking watch slacking student being dragged down the cellar- mid shot just showing legs being dragged All computers turn on at the same time- classroom- over the shoulder of student - different angles of the room Chairs move by wire lights swing student walking around- down glass corridor, janitor watching from outside student looking out window at grass, janitor far away in the trees- shot from behind student - shot of outside - close up of students puzzled face -shot of outside, janitors gone corridor- reflection/shadow of blade- close up close up of students phone- 'no signal' close up- janitors badge student running down the corridor, classroom lights turn off as he passes them student reaches sports hall- doors swing open and the lights are turned off- long shot close up- students feet running library- hiding at the end of isle skills- 360 degree pan of student stressing out with paranoia lacking off student- messed up, bloody, crying- darkroom, close up of face Chairs being pulled by wire lights swinging
This is my horror trailer mood board, the photographs on
this are scenes from films and varied photographs that I think summarise and
are like my horror film trailer. On my mood board I have used photographs of my
college and made them darker to show that its late at night as the idea of my
trailer is set at college over night, I have also used photographs of people
hiding; behind blinds, in a library etc as that is a key element of my trailer.
In the centre of my mood board I have one person studying and one person on
their phone this is also another key element of my trailer as the student who
is lacking off gets killed and the other has a bigger shot of surviving,
slightly like the final girl theory. The photograph of the chained gates
emphasises the fact that they are locked in college overnight and the phones
with no signal are an actual scene in which the bad student gets killed and her
phone has no signal so no one really knows. I have also included pictures of a
janitor as that is who our killer is and the scenes from thriller films in
which the main character is being hunted. The masked killers from the purge as
my killer wears a mask and the picture of the person in someone’s ear as an
idea I’m portraying is a ghost is telling the janitor to kill. All these
pictures are sourced from Google.
A college
caretaker accidentally killed a child in the past; the child is thought to
still be missing. The child haunts the caretaker telling him to kill others.
2 students
are staying behind after college to do work, one hard working, one slacking
off. Both students get locked in college after hours when strange happenings
occur - can both students survive?
Some key characters:
Our main characters follow the good vs evil idea as the girl
is a bad person/student as she is on her phone when she should be studying and
wastes time by going to the toilet to tweet and therefore is supposedly killed
or captured, our other main character is shown studying and getting on with his
work and has a better shot of surviving in the trailer as he is in a cat and
mouse chase with the killer, perhaps he has a better shot of surviving as he is
more ‘good’ then the other character.
Our killer is a janitor at the college and lives in the
cleaner house on college’s site, we have the idea of a ghost influencing the
caretakers killings, it happened 10 years previous to this situation and that
is when the news report has been set, the name of the film is called ‘the
mistake’ as the first death was a mistake and he is being haunted either by the
dead student or a devil figure as he is a murderer in hiding.
Our trailer
is going to be filmed in college so all of our scenes will be in and around
college, our main scenes will be in a classroom as our plot is set in a
classroom, we have chosen our media room specifically as we think it’s a nice
wide rooms to get some of the desired shots, another main location is the front
of college as we will use this as our establishing shot and where our ‘news
interview’ will take place, skills will also be used as it is where the main
hunt scene where the killer is watching the main character and he knows it and
is scared and paranoid, the girls toilets is another main scene as it will be
used for when our other character gets taken.
Other
locations used will be the library, as the bookshelves are good for hiding scenes,
we will use the caretakers house for shots of an idea of where the killer
lives, corridors for running scenes, the field for an extreme long shot of the
killer to make the trailer a bit creepy and the canteen for more paranoid shots
to add to the trailer.
The term film distribution is when the film is made
available to audiences for viewing; this is done by the professional film
distributor who will be in charge of the marketing strategy for the film and
how and when the film will be shown and released. The idea is to make as much
profit as possible- a film that doesn’t go to the cinema will lose out on the
‘theatrical window’ making it less known and not creating as much money as it
could, the film distributor needs to decide which sort of release the film will
have; a standard or simultaneous for example, how long before it comes out on
DVD etc.
The term reach relates to film distribution as it means the total
amount of people/households the film will literally reach, reach works as a fraction
or specific total such as ‘TV households of women aged 30-35’ television channels
use reach each week to see how many viewers they receive, ‘x minute weekly
reach’ meaning how many viewers watched for a certain amount of time that week.
A companies/businesses market plan is an outline of what
they are aiming to achieve, what marketing methods they are using and how they’re
going to do it as well as any important information or data, it is usually part
of an overall business plan. A distribution plan is a method in which your ‘product’
gets to the audiences, it focuses on locations, methods and costs as well as
other aspects, there are different distribution options as this chart shows.
Advertising, publicity and promotion are all very different;
advertising is the display of a product e.g. billboards and posters, publicity
is when the media show attention to a certain product e.g. it is mentioned in a
news report/ magazine article and promotion is an activity that enhances the awareness
of the product to increase public knowledge for example a celebrity endorsement.
The Cabin in the Woods
Teaser Poster:
Teaser Trailer:
Main Poster:
Main Trailer:
The teaser poster and main posters for the cabin in the woods are very similar however the main poster reveals the actors in the film and release date, one of the actors being famous Chris Hemsworth which could bring more viewers in, the teaser trailer gives a lot away and most of what is in the teaser trailer is again shown in the main trailer although with an add of more of a back story and more key horror moments. This film was distributed by big company Lionsgate, who have distributed famous films such as The Hunger Games Series and successful horror film series Saw, the film was released in about 40 countries and on opening weekend was screened in 2,811 cinemas creating $14,743,614.
