Our Storyboard Animatic

The Exorcism Of Emily Rose - Official® Trailer [HD]

Again after looking at a number of trailers similar to our own genre, this has started to make us think of some ideas for our trailer.
There are many aspects of this trailer that we could incorporate into our own, for example the use of a voice over briefly explaining some of the background story.

Also there is a very wide range of camera shots used for a number of reasons to gain the desired affect. The use of titles are also used very well, in explaining storyline, separating shots and building suspense.

The use of music and sound affects is also used to create the horror aspect, as well as trying to affect the audience so they will go and see the final film.

Paranormal Activity 2 and 3 trailer analysis

Both of these films follow the same guidelines and basic storyline for the trailers. They are all created to build suspense and anticipation about the film which is done very well in a number of ways. The trailers give very little way about the actually storyline, however you can clearly see its a horror film. Its shown easily by the colour scheme, very dark colours which emphasises the feeling of vulnerability. Another big aspect of these trailers and other horror films, especially with the second of the 3 trailers is the fact its all at night. The night time with horror films gives the huge feeling of being unsafe and very unprotected, which is something we're taking in to consideration when we make my final trailer.

Also because of the way they're all filmed in the trailer, it creates a good level of continuity. The shots are mostly with the point of view of a hand held camera which creates the storyline of it all being on the same similar time line.


Another important aspect of the paranormal activity films is probably the most similar film me and Sidney are try to create, which allows us to get some ideas or inspiration for our own ideas.

Costume/Prop ideas

Our Main protagonist will be an average person, meaning our actor will only have to wear their normal clothes. Also the horror element of our film will come from a demon hunting the house and as in the paranormal activity films nobody including our main protagonist will not be able to see it.

However for the number of ideas that we have to far we will need a wide variety of props, thankfully the majority of these will be everyday around the house objects. Some won't be for example if we chose to use something like fishing line which would be impossible to see on the camera as a way of shutting doors and making things move or fall of shelves then we would need to get our hands of this before filming.

Script Ideas and Music

For our Trailer i thought about firstly having a script, However thinking about other horror film genres i thought that i would have mostly music over the trailer with some very little dialogue. However the minimum that would be there would show the fear of our main protagonist and explain some parts of the storyline

It would be used to build tension and suspense whilst some of the brief parts of dialogue would add affect to my trailer.
However we will begin to look at non copy right music which would fit our trailer and the genre. Mealing it will have to be fairly slower paced at the start and gradually increasing as the editing pace begins to quicken.



After Filming last year some of the dialogue can be fairly unclear and not the highest quality, so if we decide we need an important bit of dialogue which would be a very key point of the storyline and trailer, we could use a vioce over and put the dialouge in over the clips during editing.

Film Location ideas

For our trailer we will try and use a few locations, however the main ones will be either mine or Sidney's house. Once we have made a final decision on this I will post the locations along with some pictures.