We looked at specific trailers which were relevant to our movie. This gave us ideas on what shots are most effective and how much of the story should be included in the trailer. Of course we must take into consideration that these are full trailers as opposed to a teaser trailer so we didn't want to give away as much of the story as they were.
'What Lies Beneath', a film made in 2000, is a good example as it uses our idea of involving water ie. a pond or lake which helped us think of different ways in which we could use the ponds on Hampstead Heath. The film is about a dead woman haunting a married couple which is similar to our idea of having a dead girl coming back to haunt someone. Although this trailer does give away too much of the story but it did help stimulate ideas of how we could show the girl in a frightening and threatening way.
This shot is similar to something we would be able to achieve at the Hampstead Heath ponds as they have a small pier leading out to the pond. Certain shots in this film will be really helpful in showing us ways in which we can use our own environment to achieve the same sort of atmosphere this managed to create.
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'The Lovely Bones', a film made in 2009, about a young girl who was murdered when she was 14 watching over her family as they destroy themselves over her untimely death. This is similar to our idea and in the trailer shows her father and sister attempting to find her murderer. It using fast paced editing in some points of the trailer showing her sister rummaging threw old newspaper clippings as she tries to piece together clues. As the main character in our film was a newspaper reporter we wanted to incorporate this idea of showing old newspaper clippings in our trailer to gives the audience subtle clues as to what it may be about. We wanted the girl in our film to be frightening yet still have a kindness to her as she has only come back to get justice, this trailer helped with this at it shows the young girl as a kind spirit yet the thought of the dead coming back is still scary and therefore there was still a slight eeriness about her.
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The Ring, made in 2002, uses prime examples of the kind of shots we want in our trailer. This image below from the film inspired us when deciding what we wanted the ghost of the young girl in our trailer to look like. The reason being is that we think it is very effective yet still achievable with the resources we have. Nina volunteered to do the acting which meant that we already had her long hair to work with. For the costume we got a long white t shirt and white socks and when editing the shots we get we would be able to add even more of a scary effect by tweaking the colour and lighting.
