Our groups initial idea for our horror film includes many of the ideas and key concepts we’ve looked at throughout this project so far - Such as a final girl, a plot line we created from our audience research, as well as having many conventions of horror. Our film is going to be called ‘CULT’, which is too the point and bold, but our trailer will show our audience that it’s an idea that has been taken, and twisted to create something psychologically terrifying.
The main plot line for our horror film will begin with a couple driving through the woods when they come across a little girl, and once they get out of the car to look for her she’s gone. As they search through the forest in the bid to find her they realize that there is something strange about the forest and before they know it they’re lost. The film goes on to allow the couple to discover that the girl was not a cute, young, innocent girl like they’d thought, but in fact the leader to a cult that the couple are abducted by and forced to harm themselves and others as they resist to become part of it.
We plan on using a lot of simple but strange effects in our trailer to make it a little bit more edgy and creepy, instead of actually scary. We plan on using a lot of the things that Bordwell and Thompson believe make something scary - distorting time and space to make everything that more ‘weird’ (such as putting clips backwards, in slow motion, or breaking the 180 degree rule), which I feel will work well with the plot line based around strange cults and cult-like rituals.
Another thing we will play on a lot is binary opposites, we will completely mess with the audiences heads with the confusion about the little girl from the very beginning. Is she cute, is she not? and as the film progresses the audience will discover more and more about the plot line and make these assumptions for themselves.
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