Choice of trailer type

Our group has decided to create a highlights trailer so that we would be able to show the plot line of our horror trailer. The plot is a key feature which is shown in psychological horror and is therefore important as we have chosen a hybridised genre of psychological and gore.

In our trailer we will use these horror conventions:

·      Creepy Location – We will be filming in college using specific rooms such as staff toilets and disabled toilets that have tiled walls for the psychiatric ward. Later on when editing, we will be making the location a lot darker than usual as addition to staying behind after college to use the empty corridors to flicker lights and create the isolated, lonely feeling that the psychiatric ward should have.  

·      Body Horror – Due to our hybridized genre there will be body horror including blood coming out of body parts and blood stains on walls.

·      Collision Cutting – We intend to have more than one jump scare as addition to making the clips go from quiet to loud and slow to fast. 

·      Point of View Shots – When a person is being haunted we will use point of view shots to show what the victim is seeing to emphasise how intimidating the action going on is and make the audience feel as if they're in the action. 

·      Lots of Close Ups – Close up's will be used to create a sense of claustrophobia and panic for the audience and characters within the trailer as addition to showing the characters emotions more clearly. 

·      Psycho – The psychiatric patients will all show how they're psycho's through their behaviours however the patient who haunts the other patients will be portrayed as more intimidating than the others. 

·      Flipping character representation – Due to all of the psychiatric patients being female, the psycho character will be female and the carer within the hospital will be male. By doing this, our trailer will show diversity to others. 

·      Fear of Death/Violence – The two psychiatric patients being haunted will feel threatened by the ghosts appearance and feel anxious, claustrophobic and feel fear towards the ghost harming them at all times. 

Loneliness Theme – The characters being haunted will feel isolated from the outside world due to being stuck in the ward and due to being paranoid, will stay in their rooms more than they would usually.