PROPOSAL TWO

PROPOSAL FOR MOVIE TRAILER

The proposal for my film trailer was a concept drawn from both my research into existing products, and primary research in the form of the questionnaire below. The trailer was to last approximately thirty seconds, due to the design brief stating the product ought to be a teaser trailer, and was to advertise a psychological horror. This genre seemed most appealing as it required little editing beyond my computer capabilities and could be produced to a professional standard with only the resources available. It was intended to run through chronologically, similar to many of my personal favorite and several more progressive teaser trailers already produced, more a selected and compressed sequence than a montage of an entire film's footage, a decision based both around personal preference and, again, the limitations of the resources available to me, particularly in terms of editing software. It was to portray a moment of tension in which the protagonist awakes in the night to the unmistakable sounds of intrusion into her home. The appeal of this was to play upon a common fear for the majority of people, coupled with the lack of an obvious antagonist, channeling the prospective audiences fear of the unknown. In correlation to the tropes and conventions of the broad majority of cinematic trailers, a black backdrop would interject at intervals to portray the key credits and disclaimers, and an appropriately eerie exert of a music track, produced using Soundtrack Pro software. A key feature of the footage would be a distinct lack of clear light, yet again used to counter the limitations of my knowledge of computer generated imagery, as well as effectively play upon the innate fear of darkness many people share on some level. The sequence would reach a climax in which a silhouette of the enigmatic intruder would, in quick cuts in time with a rising tempo of the audio, approaching the camera, at which point a scream will ensue from the protagonist, before a cut to the fading title.