Film Brief; Research and Planning

The genre of our film is a horror, and this means that our target audience would probably vary between the ages of 15-25. The plot of the film is about a stereotypical mental woman who lives alone, Bryony will play this character and this stereotype of her living alone and in an isolated house in the woods is the exact factors that scares and excites the audience. This idea of a woman having an unstable mind, creates the atmosphere that this could happen in real life and makes suspense for the audience. The setting will be held at Shanie's dads house, which is quite isolated and is perfect to match the genre of our film. This is where most of the camera time will be spent as it is the main setting of our film production.

Most of our camera shots used will probably be extreme close up shots, because this shows the most emotion in the characters faces and this is an important factor in a horror film. Other camera shots used would be long shots, extreme long shots to get the setting in the shot as well as various characters, and jumpshots which are also often used in horror films to scare the audience, the camera is usually on the villain when this shot is used.

We have decided that Bryony will be having her hair either in a scruffy backcombed style or in pigtails as this stereotypes the girl being trapped in society and could suggest she either has a personal hygiene issue and doesn't care about her appearance, or that she is trapped in thinking she is still a child.

The sound we use in the trailer will slowly build up as the trailer shows brief showings of the characters killings and stages of how her mental rage builds up throughout. The sound will begin happy and when the camera shot converts to showing text, the music will come to a sudden stop and this will be effective as it will make the audience focus purely on the text and not be distracted by the sound in the background. The music used when the clips are shown will link to the facial expressions and will contrast with the events happening in the trailer.