Assignment 3 - Shot list

Assignment 3 - Proposal

Audience research conclusions 

In conclusion of our research, we decided using the information to make our trailer more appealing to the audience which will increase the chances of them watching the film. We were influenced by the results to use an abandoned house and to have ghosts as our antagonist to create our trailer. We also decided to put captions in our trailer since people voted for it. 

Genre

The genre that we choose was horror because we found out that it was the most voted for in our questionnaire. We will use the typical horror film conventions like creepy music, paranormal activity and quick cuts. We will also add in some scary shots to get the viewers to feel like they are part of the film/trailer which will make them want to watch the rest of the film. 

Content/Structure 

Our film will be named The Recurring, we chose this name for our film because the same events occur to everyone who enters the house that is haunted by Alice. We won't be revealing much information in our trailer to get the audience interested in what the fate of the three friends would be. The structure of our trailer will be mostly different jump scares from different parts of the film in a random order so the audience won't know the order of chain of events, which will get them interested in watching the film when released.

Audience

We believe that the most appropriate age for our genre are 15-year-olds and over, due to the graphic scenes we have in our film. Due to the different interests of people, our film is targeted to people from both genders who love watching frightening and graphic scenes. The trailer that we will create will appeal to our target audience because we will including some frightening and graphic scenes that will grab the attention of the audience.

Representation 

To make it more appealing to the audience we will be representing the characters as normal people so the audience would feel a connection towards them as if they knew each other, thus we will be using some gender stereotypes to make the audience feel sympathetic to the female characters like when Alice would be kidnapped and murdered; usually woman or in this case a young girl would be kidnapped which shows that she is a weak person who can not defend her self without the help of others. We will be using most of this genre's typical representation like quick cuts, jump scares and the use of blood. 

Institution 

Our trailer will be distributed on social media outlets and it will be shown as an upcoming film on cinema screens before films of the same category, due to the fact that people are interested in this particular genre; effectively increase the chances of getting a greater amount of audience to watch the film. We will also be releasing a film poster so we would be able to advertise our film on traditional outlets like magazines, newspapers and billboards.