Type of trailer we have chosen

A highlights trailer that we really liked was 30 days of night, this is one that inspired us to make one ourselves. 

We have chosen to create a highlights trailer. We have chosen to create a highlights trailer because we think that this gives us a better opportunity to take the best elements from our film and present them to our audience, this not only makes a more captivating viewing for an audience as much more is happening in the trailer, it also allows us to sell the narrative of the trailer as we can show the best elements of the film thus introducing the characters and the themes of the film effectively. We chose this rather than a scene trailer because we feared that a scene trailer may limit us to the type of shots and action that we could use within the trailer, we thought that a scene trailer would not convey the narrative to the same effect that a highlights trailer would and that this would be less interesting and memorable to a viewer, doing a scene trailer would also have made it difficult to put a jump scare at the end and this is something that we wanted to put in our trailer.

  Through making this trailer we will use a creepy location of a forest which is fog filled and never ending. We will use lots of expressive angles and camerawork with high and low angles to show the power distribution within the narrative and things like points of view shots  from the slow moving monster (tree) that is possessed by the serial killer (spirit). We will have typical character conventions of the final girl, female victim and male hero so that the audience gets what they are expecting from the film. We will have sex and the taboo through having a final girl who is obviously sexually active and is therefore punished for this. The fear of death shall also be a theme through our trailer as the group are scared of being caught and hung. The generic feature of Isolation shall be conveyed through the location and the way that the characters are picked off one by one isolating them from one another.