Thursday 2 February 2012

Ideas for Horror Trailer

1. The Last Laugh
A group of friends who are also dancers are practicing for their end of year performance. They all decide to leave after a busy rehearsal but one, Buffy remains to perfect her dance. A masked villain appears and she is his first target. One by one, all concede defeat to the unknown figure’s merciless intentions except for Nina. Now Nina is the last one remaining, will she uncover the villain’s identity and more importantly, will she survive?!

2. Big Bad Wolf
A group of bored teenagers go into the woods and start messing around, drinking alcohol and playing dangerous jokes on each other. One of them suffers a psychological breakdown when a prank goes too far and he begins to act strange. Soon, the group get attacked in a brutal manner and fall unconscious. When they wake up, they discover that their friend is not who he seemed to be!

3. Sweet Revenge
It’s the end of a long year at Plumstead Manor School and a group of friends decide it’s time to play the ultimate joke on the school nerd. Passive and afraid, Laura believes the bullies to be her enemies but when they invite her to the end of year party at their house, she innocently agrees. Excited that this is her chance to mix in with the popular crowd, she makes her way to the party venue only to be embarrassed and humiliated in front of 500 people! She leaves in utter grief. Once outside, she bumps into a stranger (hooded figure) who she confesses all her anguish to. After begging him to help her, they both begin a journey to teach the bullies a lesson and achieve this through brutally murdering them. Now that the revenge is taken, the hooded figure wants something in return but who is he and what does he want?!

Final Idea
Our group came to the conclusion that ‘The Last Laugh’ plot would be most suitable for our horror trailer. The ‘Sweet Revenge’ plot would be too complicated and organising the party venue with 500 people also difficult. The ‘Big Bad Wolf’ plot line deviates from the slasher horror genre that we want to convey. It is too unrealistic and would therefore be difficult to convey convincingly. We all voted in favour for ‘The Last Laugh’ plot line due to its conventional narrative of Clover’s ‘Final Girl’ theory in action.

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