Scene Plan

Planning the piece is a very important part to play in our production process. Now we have a very basic storyboard of our ideas, We need to plan our ideas in more detail carefully and thoroughly to ensure our piece looks professional and is well organised. so we needed to come up with our filming  ideas and lay them all out.

Here are ideas for scenes we may consider including in our piece.

• plot of the Trailer 

A young adult becomes bored of reality and becomes very reckless and creates a ouija board ( designed to invite in spirits) she does this out of pure boredom without thinking of the consequences. in result of this a ghost spirit comes to life and turns out to be evil and comes after the young adult and tries to get into the house and also attack her in an attempt to kill her. 

• Establishing shot of the House that is going to get haunted.

This is important because it would set the scene, introduce the house see as our film is to be titled "Silent House". However this can not be any average shot of a house, it needs to be a slow tracking shot at nigh time this is because it would  build up the tension creating an errie atmosphere which would therefore conform to the horror genre and also entice the audience into watching more. 

Camera Angles and movements that could establish this effect... 

• Establishing shot
• Long shot 
• Crane shot
• High angle shot
• Canted frame
• Pan

• Initial introduction of the Ghost Character.

We thought it would be a good idea to have the ghost character introduced first because this will establish her as the most important more dominant character, suggesting she has the most power above the other character/characters.

We also thought that this character should be hidden in some way, either behind a tree.. or inside the house.. or looking through a window inside the house, to create a haunted atmosphere and also creating the horror that the ghost had managed to get inside without the victim knowing. So we thought the best option was to have the ghost looking through a window unknown to the character living in the house. 

We also decided that we should include a crash zoom into the ghosts scary expression to dramatize the scene. 

Camera Angles and movements that could establish this effect... 

• Crash zoom
• Close up
• Extreme Close up
• Canted frame
• long shot
• Hand-held shot ( thats shaking about ) 

• Initial introduction of the victim Character

we decided that we wanted the character to be a female young adult who is bored and is reckless.. so we established this by having the first scene that introduces the girl to be the ouija board scene which displays her reckless actions as she asks for the spirits to come out. we decided an initial establishing shot was vital to show the ouija board so it was very clear to the audience what she was doing. Secondly we thought a close up of the girls face was important so show her expression. We decided she had to have a scared expression which portrayed the moment she regretted her actions in making the ouija board as she heard a loud bang .

Camera Angles and movements that could establish this effect... 

• Close up ( for the character expession ) 
• birds-eye view ( for the ouija board ) 
• Extreme Close up
• medium shot 
• eye-level shot 
• Hand-held shot

• Ghost trying to get in

After the young adult had called the spirit through the ouija board, we thought that we then had to include a scary shot of the ghost trying to get in. This would let the audience know the ouija board worked, and not in a positive way. So we have come up with a few different ideas to gain this effect..

• ghost suddenly appearing next to the ouija baord
• ghost in the front garden of the house
• ghost in the back garden of the house 
• ghost looking through a window
• ghost walking through a wall 
• ghost trying to smash through a window /door  combined with loud music 

Camera Angles and movements that could establish this effect... 

• Crash zoom
• Close up
• Extreme Close up
• Canted angle
• Crane shot
• Hand-held shot 

Finally we had to plan for the ending to our trailer.. 

here are our ideas.

• The Ghost wins and the girl dies 
• The girl survives ( like in Laura Mulveys theory of the final girl )
• they both die both lose 
• both win, become friends-happy ending 
• cliffhanger

We decided that since this is a teaser trailer, we didn't want it to reveal too much information about the ending, and therefore found that a cliffhanger was suitable for the ending to create suspense and wonder making the audience want to watch the full movie, which is the intention that a teaser trailer adapts. 

After research into real media texts, of other horror film trailers, we decided to add the title sequence before the cliff hanger, this is because it would appear to the audience that the trailer has ended, and then if we had the cliffhanger coming after it, it would create an intense dramatic effect shocking the audience which would conform to the aspects of a horror trailer 

Cliffhanger Ideas 

• Ghost about to kill the girl then the camera turns off
• girl about to kill the ghost then the camera goes off
• girl hides somewhere while ghost walks over 
• girl getting dragged back into a dark place by the ghost with no knowledge if the girl survived.