SCRIPT

SCENE 1

A group of friends are seen walking into the woods around mid day.

They are all laughing and getting excited about their wild night out in the 'lost' woods.

They set up camp and prepared sleeping arrangements before they sat around and passed along their cause of hallucinations.

George offers the drugs to Emily but she refuses.

GEORGE:

You're no different, come on try it!

EMILY:

I don't want to, I thought we came here to have fun!

JADE:

stop being so bloody boring, just do it already so we can get on with the night.

SCENE 2

Emily still refuses to take the drugs and moves herself away from the circle of her now under the influenced friends.

Whilst watching from the sidelines Emily tries ringing someone for a normal conversation, but finds herself out of signal.

She walks around to try and connect the phone line and finds herself slightly lost and scared, she thinks someone is following her and starts getting anxious. She tries to find her way back to camp to tell her friends they need to leave urgently due to seeing a man in the woods.

EMILY: George is that you? There is more rustling in the leaves

Come out, i know its you! The rustling continues as Emily walks in a circle reassuring herself, she runs back to the group.

SCENE 3

We have to leave!

JADE: what are you talking about we just got here Slurring her words.

GEORGE: whats going on?

EMIY: i saw a man, he's watching us

GEORGE:slow down

EMILY:we need to leave! He's out there

GEORGE: Hey Jack, Tom let's go find this guy

JADE: Whatever I'm staying here

GEORGE: Emily you coming?

Emily then has to decide whether to go and find the man, stay in the woods or what she really wants to do go home. This is left unknown in the trailer.

SCENE 4

Emily is running through the woods breathing heavily fearful of whats out there, she can hear someone but is unknown to who.

SCENE 5

Short shots of each friends reaction/death.

SCENE 6

Emily is standing in the woods at the same place as she was in scene 2 when a man appears behind her, she then starts to turn around to face him with an ending close up of her face

EMILY: SCREAM.

COMPOSITION

The first picture we took was an extreme close up of mushrooms next to a tree, the picture showed an illusion to the eye as it wasn't clear what the picture was of with a disctinct texture shown.

We then took an above shot of the mushrooms, this gave a completely different view of the image as it gave the mushrooms a different shape and didn't give them as much texture or shape from the birds eye view. This let us realise that there are ways to experiment with shits before shooting from the obvious angle.

The next picture we took shows a pattern of lines with the trees along with Chloes body, this leads the eye into the main focus of the image. We also used the technique of not having the main attraction in the centre which can be boring.

With then decided to show the before image as a medium shot by capturing less of the background, this gave a closer focus on the main attraction which we again decided to have the main attraction off centre.

Below is an extreme long shot which would be excellent for setting a scene as it shows the season with the falling leaves and set in trees. The shot also shows the importance of colours as the background are all neutral colours then Chloe sticks out without being in the centre or following the rules of lines but being dressed in black.

The picture below is a close up of an eye-level shot allowing all focus on Laura. The image is again not central as we feel in our film that the shots will be off centre leading the eye wanting more.

We then layed the camera in line with Laura again but at a long shot so it showed more of the setting and background. This was helpful for preparing our film as we can transform shot from a distant shot then to credits then the shot again but closer, confusing the eye.

The shot below is a long shot that we will use in our film to set the scene, it allows teh audience to know it is in a wood but also shows mystery as there is nothing central for the eye to be lead to.

We then did a point of view shot, giving the feel that someone was looking up at the sky seeing the trees branches. We felt this was useful as our film is set in woods. It also shows confusion with the branches intertwining which can represent a characters thoughts.

Once again we shot the tree but used the rule of lines, the trunk of the trees direction is heading up leading the eye to look in the same direction. It also shows the tree in a different angle which could show different characters views on a scene.

STORYBOARD

The first shot will be a montage of the group of youths walking into the woods, we decided to use this establishing shot at the beginning to set the scene and genre. It will last aroun 3-5 seconds with a fade into the tagline of 'psychosis'. The camerashot used will stay as a long shot with no technicalities of angles.

The tagline faded in from the first shot will be of the name of the film- 'psychosis'. The font colour will be white on a cloudy blackish background to represent confusion and the unclear reality. The font used is 'american typewriter' with a medium size and a high percent blurred. This will again reflect the theme of confusion. The tagline will last around 2-3 seconds.

The third shot will be the second establishing shot of the friends round the camp. This again will set the scene and introduce characters. It will last for around 3 seconds and will switch from close ups to long shots from different view points and angles. This will represent the view of the 'stalker' and with the fast change of shots it will introduce the theme oh thriller.

The next shot will show a pan across the view point from one of the youths. It will show a blurred vision with an outline of an unidentified image. The shot will be a medium shot lasting around one second so minimum information is given to the audience.

The next tagline will be a definition of what 'psychosis' means as it is not a common word known. This will have the same font, colour and background as the original title but in a smaller size as there is more information. The words will fade in and out of eachother instead of it being boring all placed on one slide.

The next shot will be a view point of 'Emily'. It will change from close ups to medium shots lasting about 0.5 seconds and using wonky camera angles to reinforce panic, confusion and the pace of her running.

The picture above shows the shot of where 'Emily' has to choose the team of friends. The camera will pan from group to group and in final cut express the filter colour will be changed each time she moves to enhance the hallucinations and unclear mind focus. The shot will last about 5 secons with a fade on the focus after each change of shot.

The next tagline follows the continuity rule being the same font, colour and background and saying the slogan for the film. It will last around 2-3 seconds and this time be more bold for a summary of the film for the audience.

The last shot will be a view point from Emily. With fast changing shots again more intense than the ones shown before showing the after affect of the situation. There will be one final shot of a close up of 'Emily' showing her reaction leaving her vision to the imagination for the audience. This allows it to give limited information to the audience. The final shot will be around 1 second for the 'teaser' affect.

ANALYSIS OF OFFICIAL TRAILER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjYKXr9w0QI

Above is a link to the trailer of the thriller film 'Gothika'. One of the first things that stood out to us was the shot where it was close up on the woman's (Halle Berry) eye and then faded into the logo of the film maker which took the same shape as the circular eye. We found this particularly clever as it was a different way of changing shots and followed the continuity rule. This has given us the idea to transform shots by fading images with the same shapes.

Another part of the trailer we found we could use as a template for our film is the theme throughout the credits and written narration. The writing originates to be white and highlights the important words in red. This connotes the theme of death being the colour of blood and also the theme of love which shows a juxtaposition of themes this shows complication in the theme and also shows the rule of continuity having the same simple font throughout. It is also helpful as it highlights the important words which summarise's the film easily.

In the trailer it shows an unfinished car crash, this is done by having the beginning of the crash shown. They decided to mainly have medium close ups of the main character shot from inside of the car which relied on mainly acting and sound effects. Half way through the crash it turned into a blackout, this leads what happened to the imagination or leaves the audience eagerly wondering.

The quick blackouts are then continued to the next scenes when the crash has finished. It allows the camera shots to zoom in without losing focus on the image and continues the theme of thriller. It gives the trailer a 'jumping' effect and keeps the audience entertained. These shots also compliment the sound and shots of the weather as when it transforms from the silent blackouts its changes to loud rain and darkness which gives a stereotypical thriller setting.

The shot

SYNOPSIS

Emily Blackburn a 16 year old school girl finds herself caught up in the ways of peer pressure when taking what she thought to be an innocent camping trip with friends. As a group, they had planned a wild night in the woods to celebrate the end of school, but a bad experience with hallucinogens changed their meaning of wild. Whilst they thought they were being blessed and taken away from reality they hit the deep end quickly. .

As the hallucinations took over there minds the paranoia caused them to turn the blame to each other this then parting the group off into twos which only made it worse. There seemed to be clever idea was not so clever and didn't go to plan. Emily finds herself caught in a sticky situation between choosing the right team of friends, the battle between the weak and the strong. But was it the right team for Emily to have chosen? The ongoing questions then played on there minds: Was there something within the woods, or was it as they called the blessing twisting their minds? They would soon find out the truth within there time of the lost woods. However they didn't foresee what the truth was later to be. Emily soon realised not every blessing is a gift and reality was harder to escape than first thought. What would you do, would you believe?

AUDIENCE REVISION

http://business.pearlanddean.com/filmplanner/filmdetail.html?FilmID=3983

The link above explains the the majority audience who went to see the thriller film 'The Strangers'.

This being a 74% of the audience being aged 15-24 and mainly female, this explains why 31% of the audience was category DE as a lot of them will have been students.

http://business.pearlanddean.com/filmplanner/filmdetail.html?FilmID=2353

The link above shows the type audience which viewed the film 'Gothika' at cinemas.

The gender was similar in percent being only 4% different which showed that it appealed to both genders, this could be because of the main star 'Halle Berry' being an icon for both.

The most popular age for the film was again 15-24 with the class being C1 which is lower middle class.

http://business.pearlanddean.com/filmplanner/filmdetail.html?FilmID=2762

The link above shows the statistics of the audience at cinemas for Saw the first of many sequels.

It showed us that the majority of the audience was male as only 33% were female, as there is a theme of gore throughout and no well-known stars are in it that the women can relate to.

Again the most popular age range is 15-24 but this time being a different class of AB which is upper and middle class.

http://business.pearlanddean.com/filmplanner/filmdetail.html?FilmID=880

The link above explains the the majority audience who went to see the thriller film 'Scream 3' as there was no sources to show us the results for the first one.

The most popular gender was male with 58% of them viewing it compared to 42% of women. The age range which occurred the most was again 15-24 with a high of 69% compared to only 3% of over 45's. The most popular class was C1 and the rest of them being fairly even as it is a well known film sequel.

Overall from researching these four films we discovered that the target audience for thriller is age range 15-24 as in all films this has been the most popular and a mainly male attraction. The reason for more men than women viewing the films is because of men being more attracted to violence and 'gore'. The advertisements for the films will have used blood and stereotypical images of guns and knives placed in posters and used in trailers.

THE STRANGERS

The Strangers is a 2008 American suspense-horror film written and directed by Bryan Bertino, and starring Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman, Gemma Ward, Laura Margolis, Kip Weeks, and Glenn Howerton. The film revolves around a young couple who are terrorized by three masked assailants, who break into the remote summer house at which they are staying and damage all means of escape. The Strangers was made on a budget of $9,000,000, and after two postponements, the film was eventually released on May 30, 2008 in North America. The film was marketed as being inspired by a "true story", and grossed $81.6 million at the box office worldwide. Critical reaction to the film was mixed.

The strangers used a number of techniques to promote the film. A short teaser trailer for the film was released on the internet in August 2007, and can be found on YouTube. It was not until March 2008 that a full-length trailer for the film was released, which can be found on Apple's Quicktime site. The trailer originally began running in theaters attached to Rogue Pictures' sci-fi film Doomsday in March 2008. Television advertisements began airing on networks in early-mid April 2008 to promote the film's May release. Two one-sheet posters for the film were released in August 2007, one showing the three masked Strangers, and the other displaying a wounded Liv Tyler. In April 2008, roughly two months before the film's official theatrical debut, the final, official one-sheet for the film was released.

Above is a poster used in there marketing campaign, its simple and hides the victims identity. This is done so the audience can imagine themselves in there place, with using the pronoun ‘you’ in the simple phrase. Another image used above is a print screen off the strangers website (http://www.thestrangers.net/). It shows promotional ways of getting the film around by word of mouth starting with the internet.The website started with an enter page grabbing the audiences attention by having short reviews fading for example; ‘pulse pounding terror – life and style weekly’. It also shows the trailer which automatically starts so the audience is tricked into watching it.