Proposal of Ideas

Our film opens with a group of teenagers at school/ college, this allows there to be an brief introduction to the characters before the film really kicks in. In school they discuss taking a camping trip this weekend to get away and have fun-to do what typical teenagers do get drunk. One of them suggests they go to some abandoned place/woods to camp as they've heard its haunted.Then the film would move on to preparing for the trip and then eventually taking it. We would see the characters being typical teenagers and having fun in the location, which would be some abandoned woods or grounds. It's there the complicating action happens, the killer makes his first appearance, at this point in the movie nobody dies but there are the stereotypical innocent victim/ killer chases. After the teenagers escape the whole incident they return to their normal lives and decide to forget the incident as a twisted and bad experience. However none of them can seem to forget the incident and when they start to see visions of the killer being around they begin to doubt whether he is still after them. The killer re emerges and begins to stalk and kill the teenagers one by one, leading down to leave a main character who the killer is to pursue. Like many horror films the tension will be built up into one big cat/mouse scene of the killer and final victim battling it out. Eventually the victim will manage to kill the antagonist. Or so they think. Like many horror movies ours end's with a possible opening for a sequel, just as the supposed 'dead' killers mask is about to be peeled away, his eyes open and the credits will roll, leaving the audience shocked, scared and unaware what happens next, with a possible opening for a sequel.

Our trailer will include shots that establish the basic plot without giving too much away, establishing locations and main characters and focusing on replicating stereotypical and iconic

kind of scenes such as jumping up out of bed from a nightmare, or looking in the mirror and seeing somebody behind them, as well as showing fast paced chase scenes to build tension and play to the iconography of the genre. The trailer will most likely be cut with inter titles to build tension a little bit more.

I think our posters will be character driven, as with most movies we will produce numerous posters as forms of promotion. These posters could focus on the main characters, both separately or together, or one purely of the murder with the location in the background. I think doing these will be more effective than sticking to one poster as it will appeal to more than one audience range.

For our magazine cover I think we should either have a shot of the film's main star, or a cast photograph together. I think it should be a 'behind the scenes' feature, because people are more likely to buy the magazine for this and interviews with the cast as appose to for just finding out about the film plot. The aim is to have the magazine something similar to Empire/ Total Film so it will have to look professional and the photo's will have to be well planned out in relation with the film.