Creating Ideas

To begin out initial planning session we developed our ideas using a technique adopted from Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg from when they created ‘Hot Fuzz’ This technique was using flipcharts to write down any ideas we came up with initially.

After we had decided on a genre we wrote down a couple of horror conventions and typical settings or characters you would find, initially we struggled coming up with a basic storyline for our film trailer however we then remembered the story in which we had looked at in one of our lessons which was, ‘A man called story’ (Mason: 2009) in which the moral was, that within every story, truth can be found hiding under its tailcoat’ and this encouraged us to think about our own and real life experiences.

This was when we thought about the recent news about a local girl who had committed suicide and after we had come up with this the ideas just kept coming and coming.

We then came up with a couple of main scenes that would be shown in the trailer and setting of the film etc. Here is when we thought that the young girl should commit suicide due to bullying and the reason she gets bullied is because she is an evacuee from London during the war.

After further brainstorming we came up with the idea that when the girl comes back as a ghost it is actually transferred to the modern day where someone, somehow, unlocks her spirit and the girl ghost wants revenge on the modern day bully.

We then decided to dedicate a page specific to the two main characters shown and here are the thoughts we came up with:

Whilst doing this research we decided to take a look at a couple of other student trailers on youtube and we actually decided that these were not that good, we definitely didn’t want to make the same mistakes that they had so we wrote down a couple of criticisms and things that we need to be careful to avoid:

An example is that we need to ensure that our trailer doesn’t turn out to look like a movie opening, clips need to be shown in random orders and not chronological.