Influences for our Trailer(After the Animatic)

After watching our Animatic back and getting feedback, we realised that we needed to include scarier shots into our horror trailer to inject fear into the audience. Therefore, we started watching current horror trailers to see what shots and techniques they were using to create fear. We were inspired by the trailer ‘Deliver Us From Evil’, there are some shots that we hope to adapt into our trailer as we feel they are extremely effective. Here is the link for the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TgHldrvLrA

Deliver Us From Evil

Scratching the floor

We found these shots very disturbing, as it is unnatural for a person to digging the floor like an animal, in a crazed-like state. There are close ups of the woman’s hands and medium wide shots of the woman’s body to show in detail what this woman is doing. There are fast cuts to reflect the frenzied state this woman is in. One of the targets we wanted to improve on was the representation of the Mother’s character whilst she is possessed. Therefore, a shot reflecting that she is acting out of character, such as this, would create an uncomfortable atmosphere for the audience.

Being Grabbed

The suspense of these shots add to the overall horror genre. The audience know that something is going to happen and therefore start to feel more uncomfortable and feel on edge. When the man jumps on the back of the main character, it frightens the audience and creates a moment of panic on screen. This atmosphere transfers through the screen and into the mind of the audience. We wanted there to be a sequence of shots to show that the Father in our trailer cared about his little boy, and therefore we feel we could incorporate a shot like this into our trailer with the Mother jumping on the Father’s back whilst she is possessed.

Teddy Moving

In our trailer we are including a child’s teddy bear to represent the evil spirit that the Mother get’s possessed by. After watching this shot of an owl teddy moving across the floor, we thought we could try to re-create this in our trailer. It would be a challenging but spine chilling, as it is extremely unusual and brings a person out of their comfort zone seeing an inanimate object moving by itself. In our trailer it would make the audience fear for the whole family, especially the young boy.