Our Chosen Teaser Idea

This is our final chosen idea in which our group is going to base our Horror teaser. As a group, each of us read out our pitch for a new Horror movie and we discussed which ones we would realistically be able to achieve and which we liked/disliked.


This idea came from Fern who had made it up from scratch. We really liked it as it would be possible to do as two members of our group are able to drive a car and we could all meet up at a local woods in Fritton which we wanted to use as our location.
We developed the idea further and changed some parts and came up with a situation. This is the original story, written in Fern's words.


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Ria, a typical teenage girl from the small town of lowestoft, was spending the evening at her boyfriend's house. At about half midnight, Ria decided it was time to leave as they both had to be up early that morning. She said her goodbyes, got in her car, turned her music up and began her 25 minute journey home. She was singing away and tapping her thumbs on the the steering wheel when something in her rear-view mirror caught her eye. Her head sparply turned towards it and she had a closer inspection, nothing was there. She shook it off and carried on driving. Wary of what she saw, she turned down her music. As she drove along the deserted, dark roads, she could feel soft, warm air blowing her hair forward on the right hand side of her face. She frantically checked that all of the windows and doors were fully shut, they were. She couldn't understand where this warm air was coming from, she turned her music off. She began to hear faint sounds of someone breathing near her head. She inhaled deeply through her nose, her eyes widened and she pulled over immediately. She got out of the car straight away without even turning behind her to look in the backseat, she turned off the ignition and slammed the door. She figured if there was something or someone in her car that she would be able to see them through the window, and at least then she would be outside of the car. Her palms sweating, she looked closely through the window, she saw nothing, she opened the boot, she saw nothing. She slammed the boot shut and looked back along the road she had driven down, she put her hands on her hips as she breathed a sigh of relief. Before she knew it, she heard her engine start, she whipped around and watched her car be driven into the woods nearby. In a desperate attempt to get her precious car back and without further thought, she found herself sprinting as fast as she could after her car. The ground was bumpy and uneven and as she tried to keep up with the car she stumbled. She didn't give in, she could hear the sound of her cars engine so she knew it wasn't far away. She thought maybe the driver had freaked out, left the car and ran off, why could she still hear the car? As she got closer the car got louder and she could see the headlights peering through the branches. She finally got to her car and was horrified at what she saw and was possibly about to happen to her...

Preperation For Our Horror Teaser

These are images of my group trying to create fake blood and wounds in class. We had a session which was held by a tutor at college who was interested in creating wounds. He was able to teach us how to create bulletholes or gashes using latex, grenadine and black substances such as eyeliner.


The latex can be applied with with a paintbrush or any try of hard tool and as it begins to dry the colour of it becomes more skin-like. It forms the outline of the wound and makes it look as thought skin is flapping. Grenadine is a fruity drink used in cocktails but is the perfect colour and thickness to use as blood. It is very sticky until it is dry but looks effective as it can drip and run down the skin without looking watery or as thick as ketchup. A black substance such as eyeliner really adds to the aesthetics of the wound, especially the bullethole as it looks like the inside of the skin rather than typical blood.

Storyboards

These are the storyboards which my group has created. These are guidelines so that we know when filming what we need to shoot and when.

My pitch for a new Horror Movie

This is my pitch for a Horror movie:

Ross and his pregant wife Jenny are driving through the mountains late one evening. They have been to a friends for a meal and are now making their way home. Depsite the fact the mountainous area was rumoured to have been a monsters lair many centuries ago, the locals were not afraid and stood their grounds.
As they are slowly driving through the tight, winding roads they come into a thick fog which makes visibility very poor. Jenny warily tells Ross that she feels an eerieness in the air and is scared for the edge of the mountain is very close but he reassures her. As they drive further on, the fog shows no sign of ceasing and the sheep which usually surround them are nowhere to be seen. Jennys overdue baby begins to kick repeatedly and she immediately knows that something is wrong although Ross insists she is just being silly.

All of a sudden their car comes to a halt without any explanation. Ross thinks he has hit the edge of the mountain and gets out to investigate. As he leaves the car and enters darkness, Jennys baby begins to put her in a lot of pain. As she fidgets in discomfort she hears a smack against the window. A disfigured hand rubs over the window and Jenny knows it is not the hand of her Husband. Before she has the chance to do anything, she feels the car is uneven and she fears what is about to happen.
The car goes toppling over the edge of the mountain and smashes after a long drop.

Ross's body was never found although Jennys was recovered just hours after the incident as sunlight began to break through. Jenny had given birth to her baby whilst she was fighting for her life after the drop. She had died after the birth of her son, who was found pale and cold.
When Jennys son reaches 18, he returns to the scene, without being told any information from anybody about what had happened to his parents. He had known what was going to happen before he was even born. Now he was back to investigate.

Horror Moodboard

My moodboard is based on villains of the Horror genre, although there is a wide range of them (everything from normal humans with mental health issues to animals and monsters). I am working within a group to create my Horror teaser trailer, therefore my personal ideas on the villain of the movie may be different to any of these.