Shaun Of The Dead Trailer

For my trailer i liked the technique that is used at the begining of this trailer i liked how it flicked between interfearance and the news reporters talking about whats going on with the zombies. I could do this by filming some one like a news reporter then playing it back onto a tevevision. I like also when it jump cuts between different segments of the film to show you whats been going on this i could use also. The make up that is used is quite simplistic except from the obvious like with half of an arm and things like that i can re-create the make up just by using face paints and fake blood which would look quite effective.

Changed idea

I have decided to work on my own as me and emma have had very different ideas. I have brainstormed different ideas that i wanted to do and both of them follow the horror genre. Keeping in mind that i just looked at halloween i wanted to do a whole film in Carpenter's style when the camera is the killer. So in this idea my cast would be acting around and to the camera. Even though i thought that this would be an effective idea i thought that it would be quite difficult to do as the audience might not follow with the idea of the camera representing the killer and i think it might get a bit repetive.

I have decided to use an idea that i wanted to do previously i want to do a hand held camera film in the style of films such as Blair witch project, cloverfield and paranormal activity. My film is going to be a zombie film filmed in the hand held camera style, i need to come up with a story line that can run through the film but in my trailer it will be filled with scenes of people getting chased and tense scenes. I will need to look at zombie make up and effects wich my dad can help me with as he used to do some special effects make up when he was younger. For my cast i will have the same few survivors but as for the zombies i wont need to have the same cast the whole time. Locations that i will use will be around hastings and in places like streets, houses and secluded places.

Halloween

I think i would like to use some of the camera shots and techniques that are used in the halloween trailer i like the use of the camera 'being the killer' and that we don't know what they actually look like i think that this is very effective as we create are own assumption to what the killer would look like. I also think that the use of the mask, that we only can see through the eye holes is very effective as it gives us a limited view of the scene and the actress and the sound effects actually make the scene. If i decided to use this technique in my trailer it would be easy to film as it uses fairly straightforward camera shots and (as halloween was made on a small budget) Iwouldnt have to have an actor to be the killer as you would not see him and i would be relying mainly on my sound effects and actors.

changed idea 2

Me and Emma have decided to change our idea again as we thought that our previous idea wouldnt be very realistic to do. We liked our original idea of doing the horror genre as the convetions of a horror film are very stereotypical and we have a lot more ideas that we can use not only with filming, but with the music and make up. Me and Emma both do art so we would like to incorporate our art into this by doing make up on ourselves and other actors. We wanted to do a zombie horror film but in the hand cam sort of style that is used in The Blair with project. We have discussed between us the locations that we would like to have for our trailer we thought about burnt down and abandoned buildings creepy locations. We are hoping next to do test make up for our film, decided on locations and to story board it.