Jake McEntee

Film Pitch

Genre

My chosen genre for my trailer is horror as I feel that it will be a challenging and fun experience to film and edit.

Plot summary

A group of friends (5 people: 3 boys 2 girls) go for a walk in the woods and stray from the path. After realising this they try to get back to the path but decide to stop and camp out for the night because it is too dark to see where they are going. During the time they spend lost an unseen (you see the body of the man but you will never the face in the trailer) man cuts them down one by one with an axe.

Idea for the beginning of trailerDuring the eight seconds that the film logos and classification screen are being shown a phone will ring for around three seconds and a voice will say “are you coming on this walk then“ or “were going on a walk through Leman woods you coming”. I think this is a good use of the eight seconds as it gives the audience something to concentrate on instead of just looking at logos and being bored

Shot List (so far)Establishing shot: The group walking along the path in the woods talking.

From the establishing shot fade into a medium close up of the group and a female member of the group realising they have strayed from the path and are now lost.

Fade into a close up of a male member of the group saying that its getting too dark let’s stop for the night and look for the path when we have the light.

Quick fade to a long shot of the group around a small fire, cut to a medium shot of a member of the group looking into the flame :shot holds for around 5 seconds: (no sound other than the fire flickering for 5 seconds and then branches are heard breaking)

Quick cut to one of the male members walking towards the noise to investigate whilst telling everyone to stay at the fire.

Poster ideaIn the poster I will only focus on the axe and the small section of the villains body that will be visable. I will do this by having everything except the axe and body out of focus. The person at the tree will be out of focus but it will still be easy to see that it is a person.