Key scenes of my Horror trailer EDITED

•  Luke and Isabelle madly in love Elizah looks over them with envy. 
• Isabelle and Elizah have an argument over Luke where Elizah threatens to kill herself.
• Isabelle discovers Elizah lying dead the next day
• In a grave yard where Isabelle weeps to Luke "This is all my fault" 
•   To put the past behind them Luke proposes to Isabelle whilst walking with her through the woods which leads them to a beautiful view 
•   The engaged couple are deeply in love 
•  Elizah even more malicious returns from the dead as a spirit and sends out messages to ruin their relationship from beyond the grave 
•   Isabelle witnesses weird things and is tortured: Elizah appearing in the mirror, cursing her in the ear when she tries to get close to Luke, shadows of Elizah walking, doors slamming, candles flickering and Isabelle drowning in the bath.
• Luke consoles her that nothings there and whilst hugging her Isabelle sees Elizah appear in the mirror again
• Isabelle makes a stand and tries to find ways in which she can get rid of her sister’s spirit; she finds an ancient mantra book which Elizah also slams shut as Isabelle starts reading.
• Elizah's grave

I decided to change a few scenes as i realised  it would be better to end it as a cliff hanger to keep the audience encapsulated and wondering what shall happen next.

Key scenes of my Horror trailer

• Couple madly in love sister over looks them with envy
• Isabelle discovers Elizah lying dead 
• In a grave yard Isabelle weeps to Luke "This is all my fault"
• To put the past behind them Luke proposes to Isabelle whilst walking with her through the woods which leads them to a beautiful view
• The engaged couple are deeply in love 
• Elizah returns from the dead and sends out messages to ruin their relationship from beyond the grave
• Isabelle witnesses weird things and is tortured: Elizah appearing in the mirror, cursing her in the ear when she tries to get close to Luke, shadows of Elizah walking, doors slamming, candles flickering and Isabelle drowning in the bath.
• Luke consoles her that nothings there and whilst hugging her Isabelle sees Elizah appear in the mirror
• Isabelle makes a stand and researches a mantra which can remove spirits
• Elizah's grave

Pitch, scenario and treatment of Lucrative productions EDITED

Production Company: Lucrative Productions

Pitch: A rivalry between sisters leads to death.

Scenario: A couple madly in love Isabelle and Luke are the target of Isabelle's envious sister who wants Luke all to herself.

Treatment:
Crisis strikes when two sisters fall in love with Luke. Isabelle and Luke have been together for two years, they are madly in love. Isabelle’s envious sister Elizah is in love with him as well, and cannot bear to see her sister with Luke who she believes is the one for her. Seeing them together makes her go crazy, and one day she becomes so infuriated that she loses it. She confesses all to Isabelle asking her to leave Luke as he was hers and if not she shall kill herself! Isabelle tells Elizah not to be so stupid and go to bed. In a moment of frenzy Elizah takes her own life. The next morning Isabelle discovers Elizah is dead. Guilt is driving Isabelle insane but Luke consoles her it wasn't her fault. To put the past behind them Luke proposes to Isabelle leading her through the wood towards a magnificent view in the open air and asking her to be his wife. The engaged couple are deeply in love and just when everything seems good Elizah rises from the dead and ruins their relationship from beyond the grave. From this day on, Isabelle’s life isn’t the same. Every time she tries to get close to Luke, Elizah would whisper in her ear cursing her which only Isabelle could witness, and to frighten her such as slamming doors, dragging her down the stairs, drowning her in the bath, candles flickering, appearing in the mirror and aiming to ruin there time together. Isabelle believes she's going mad, thinking why can she only witness these things? and besides the point why does no one else believe her?  Elizah returns from the dead and is about to kill Luke as she wants him to become a corpse like her but fails. Luke and Elizah discover a mantra for removing spirits out of their lives and eventually Elizah returns back to her grave.
 Locations and settings:
Woods, Grave yard, House.

I decided to change the version of my story as i believe the previous story was more of a thriller rather than horror.

Pitch, scenario and treatment of Lucrative productions

Production Company: Lucrative Productions

Pitch: A rivalry between twin sisters leads to death.

Scenario: A couple madly in love visit the woods to get away from everything, only to find out they’re the target of an envious sister who creates a cunning plan to break them up so she can be with the boy.

Treatment:

Crisis strikes when twin sisters fall in love with the same guy. Isabelle and Luke have been together for two years, they were madly in love. Isabelle’s twin sister Poppy is secretly in love with him, and cannot bear to see her sister with Luke who she believes is the one for her. Seeing them together made her go crazy, and one day she lost it. She plotted a malicious plan against her twin sister.

It was after noon that Isabelle and Luke decided to meet at the woods to get away from all the hassle and noise of the city. They would do this quite often without anyone knowing where they’d gone, but not for long. Poppy had found out that no matter how hard she’d tried to break them apart they became more deeply in love. This infuriated her and her and craziness took over. Acting like an obsessed psycho Poppy wanted Luke all to her self and would do anything to get him. It was then she decided that in order to get Luke she would have to get rid of her sister.

That night while her sister was in bed, she suffocated her to death.

A few days later Luke and Poppy were at Isabelle’s grave, mourning for her, while Poppy acted sympathetic and gave Luke a shoulder to cry on. Taking advantage of Luke’s weakness she gets close to him and pulls him into her trap. A Few weeks later they became an item. Luke had started seeing Isabelle in Poppy and would often remember Isabelle every time Poppy smiled or laughed he’d tell her of their resemblance this made Poppy’s blood boil but she remained sweet with Luke as her plan had succeeded.

Poppy is so pleased with herself plan that she returns to Isabelle’s grave to laugh at her dead sister. As she was leaving she threw a stone at the grave, grinned and walked away. As soon as she turned away the gust of wind made her shiver, she looked back to see nothing but the grave and walked on, not knowing that the ghost of Isabelle had rose from the dead to take revenge.

From this day on, Poppy’s life wasn’t the same. Every time she tried to get close to Luke, Isabelle would whisper in her ear cursing her and do other things which only Poppy witnessed to frighten her; slamming doors, dragging her down the stairs, ruining their night together. Poppy was going mad, only she experienced these things and no one else believed her.

End 1:

Isabelle kills Poppy the way she killed her…

Luke is at the grave, and Poppy is now behind Luke with a knife to kill him as well.

Locations and settings:

Woods, Grave yard, House.

How Childsplay triggered torture and violence

• Childsplay 3 was mentioned to be the inspiration for the murder of James Bulger.
• The murder of a 16 year old girl involved her being tortured through listening to the catch phrase of ChildsplayChuckiewanna play?”

Childsplay a successful horror film of the 80's

• Childsplay 1988 it consists of a sequel and was the only film in the series to be released by MGM/UA as the rights of the film were sold to Universal.
• In 2008 a remake of the film was confirmed and is now set to be released in 2011.
• During the intial release of the film a ban was called through protesters claiming the film would incite violence in children but was shortly ended.

The rejected horror films of the 80's

• In England several movies were proceeded against by the Director of Public Prosecutions as they were seen to be too explicit.
• The movies were Cannibal Holocaust ,Driller Killer, I spit on your grave, Eaten alive (aka Death Trap) and SS Experiment camp.

Horror films of the early 80's

• Friday the 13th by Sean S. Cunningham released in  1980 a “slaughter spree” low budget splatter movie was greatly successful.

• Red Dragon by Thomas Harris (Dr.Hannibal) the fictious character creates the notions of the perfect serial killer in film.
• This created such a trend that it continued in sequences such as The silence of the lambs, Hannibal, which was adapted from Red Dragon masterfully.

Production of horror during 1980's

• During the 80’s horror was losing a lot of its mainstream appeal.
• This was quickly helped through special effects.
• The realism of special effects led in one direction to movies where watching flying bits of body became the point.
• At this time horror had become firmly established with quality work.

Research on decades of horror films and timeline

   1920               FILM                                         ACTOR                 DIRECTOR

             
                Hunchback of Notre dame (1923)      Lon Chaney Sr          Wallace Worsley

               Waxwork (1924)                                Werner Krauss            Paul Leni

               The Monster (1925)                            Lon Chaney Sr           Roland West

               The Phantom of the Opera (1925)      Lon Chaney Sr           Rupert Julian

               The Lost World (1925)                       Wallace Beery            Harry O Hoyt

   1930    Dracula (1931)                                     Béla Lugosi               Tod Browning

               Frankenstein (1931)                             Colin Clive                James Whale

               The Invisible Man (1933)                    Claude Rains             James Whale

               Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)   Lionell Atwill           Michael Curtiz

   1940    Cat People (1942)                                 Simone Simon           Jacques Tourneur

               I Walked wit a Zombie (1943)              James Ellison            Jacques Tourneur

               The Body Snatcher (1945)                    Boris Karloff             Robert Wise

   1950    The Thing from Another World (1951) Kenneth Tobey        Howard Hawks

               The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)         Peter Cushing           Terence Fisher

               Dracula (1958)                                        Christopher Lee       Terence Fisher

               The Mummy (1959)                               Peter Cushing           Terence Fisher

   1960     The Innocents (1961)                            Deborah Kerr            Jack Clayton

                The Haunting (1963)                             Julie Harris                Robert Wise

                The Birds (1963)                                   Tippi Hedren             Alfred Hitchcock

                Night of the Living Dead (1968)           Duane Jones              George Romero

   1970     The Exorcist (1973)                               Ellen Burstyn           William Friedkin

                The Omen (1976)                                   Gregory Peck            Richard Donner

                The Sentinel (1977)                                Chris Sarandon         Michael Winner

                Audrey Rose (1977)                               Marsha Mason          Robert Wise

   1980    Friday the 13^th (1980)                              Betsy Palmer             Sean Cunningham

               Alien (1980)                                             Tom Skerrit              Ridley Scott

               Childs Play (1988)                                   Cartherine Hicks       Tom Holland

               A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)          John Saxon                Wes Craven

  1990     Braindead (1992)                                     Timothy Balme         Peter Jackson

               Scream (1996)                                          Drew Barrymore       Wes Craven

               I Know What You Did Last Summer       Multi star                  Jim Gillespie   

               (1997)

Storyboard for my second horror trailer

This is the storyboard plan for my second horror trailer although a few scenes were edited.It helped me and my group organise and decide altogether exactly what we wanted, rather than thinking different scenes without planning or writing them down which we did for my first horror trailer .

My second horror trailer

                           

Planning: What you did? I was the main actress in this trailer.

Execution: What went well? The editing scenes, location and plot of the trailer went well.

Editing: What would you change/do differently? I would change the direction the villain comes out of and make her come out from the stair case which is the direction i was looking at in fear.

Comment on effectiveness: How does it meet structuralist expectations? Victim + Isolated school + Villain = reinforcement of horror encapsulated in the audience.                                       

My first horror trailer

What you did?  I took part in creating the sound effects and being the villain
What are the effects? The effects are that it evokes fear with the actor's facial expressions and body language
How does it obey structural paradigms? It obeys structural paradigms through the constructions of Victim + Isolated school+Stalker (villain) = fear evoked
What would you improve? I would add more scenes of the villain attacking and add tone cards

Saw 3D trailer and structural timeline

Equilibrium: Establishing shot of buildings
Moment of disequilibrium: At 19 secs the entertainer's hand is stuck in the machinery
Disequilibrium continues: At 34 secs a man screaming with blood and another at 40 secs is tramped in a cage and hung in the air, the audience is tied to their chairs in the cinema.
Tone cards: At 57 secs "Will you survive till the end?" creates discomfort of safety and conjures fear
Last shot: At 1.16 secs the actress is tied and in front of a moving machinery/ride which subverts audiences reactions as it moves toward them instead this creates terror and presents the powerful 3D effects.

Let me in trailer and structural timeline

Equilibrium: School assembly
Moment of dis equilibrium: Child is bullied at 12 secs non diegetic music is introduced
Conflict: At 46 secs hear a bang and extreme close up of child's eyes evokes fear
Tone cards: At 36 secs "Something wicked lives" this creates doubt of disequilibrium and the sense of something is going to go wrong.
Disequilibrium continues: Screams dark gloomy images with night vision used and fast music played and loud bang repeats.
Last shot: jump cuts used, fast non diegetic souns and extreme close - up of man's eyes near door creates doubts in audience and generates fear.