Reece Report

For our trailer we chose places that we thought would appear as normality to the viewers but also we wanted places that had a traditional horror sense as well. Once we narrowed down our opinions and ideas we filmed our trailer in three main places. 

House

One of our filming locations was my house. We wanted it to feel as if it was any normal person in front of the camera that the audience could relate to when watching our trailer, so we felt to show someone in their comfort zone at their house could take away some of the horror sense but to throw it back in with other scenes later on. This was where we tried to create clips of normality, your everyday habits being carried out, for the start of our trailer, where everything is calm and safe.

Car

We then filmed in one of our teams car. We thought that filming in the car will show the viewers that the home safe scenes are gone and that they have moved on to travelling around, using the outside environment of the car as a incentive to the cast to find out what will happen next, it also gives them the feeling that they are going out of their comfort zone into places rarely explored and that transport is needed to get there and back so it must be quite a way away from the safety of their homes.

Abandoned Ruins

Here was where the main part of our filming would take place. Its where the trailer becomes scary and where you first catch sight of our villain included. We wanted a desolate area out in the middle of nowhere so we could create the feeling of loneliness and a sense of the cast being lost. We filmed this area when sunset was happening and when night took over, to add to the emphasis of the fact it was a horror trailer. It was an overgrown area which hadn't been looked after for many years, surrounded by gravestones and missing its roof. With patchy pieces of the walls missing we used it as a chance to recreate quick filming and a sense of being very frightened to portray through the camera. Also, the area had a 'Danger, keep out' sign located on the fence before you got to the ruins, which we included in our trailer as it adds to the ever growing spookiness of the area.