Assignment 3 - Shot list

Date	Scene	INT/EXT Day/Night	Shot descriptions/ Summary	Location	Characters	Equipment/ Props/Costumes
Day 1	Number 1	Night	Shehza, rolls back and forth during her sleep, clearly showing her fear. This shot is taken over her, and is mid-shot. She then wakes up, breathing heavily. This shot is also a mid shot, and the focus is on Shehza's character. The seen then cuts to a wide shot of Mishal, here playing Shehza's older sister, entering the room to ask Shehza if she's ok.	In the bedroom to look like a typical teenage girl's bedroom.	Shehza plays the victim - a haunted teenager.	Shehza is wearing a pair of pyjamas, lying in bed.
Day 1	Number 2	Day	Shehza's character, Isabella has an appointment with her therapist to talk about what's wrong with her. The conversation is shot 2 times, once from behind Shehza, and the other behind the therapist. using the shoulder to shoulder cut. After a few scenes, Mishal's character, the bad spirit in the nightmares, appears behind the therapist, leaving Isabella (Shehza) terrified.	The compound's clubhouse, in the area where there are simple sofas and a coffee table to look like a therapist's office.	Iman's character, the therapist, and Shehza's character, Isabella.	Iman is wearing a doctor's coat, to indicate her profession to the audience. Shehza is wearing a simple t-shirt and jeans, the typical attire for a teenager. Mishal appears, in a white mask, to make her character look scary and emotionless, and is in black clothes to draw attention to the mask.
Day 1	Number 3	Day	The bad spirit/ killer walks down a dimly lit hallway with a knife in hand. The shot is taken low, focusing on Mishal's stride and the knife,	Unrented house in compound that looks abandoned and haunted. - this is the house in Isabella's nightmares.	Mishal's character, the killer.	Mishal is wearing a mask and black clothes, with a sharp knife in hand.
Day 1	Number 4	Night	Shehza is huddled in a corner, this shot is taken at a high angle, to suggest her character's vulnerability and fear.	In empty room, with scraped walls, and dim lighting.	Just Shehza's character.	Typical teenage clothing.
Day 1	Number 5	Night	Shehza walks down the steps with a flashlight on phone in hand. The shot is a mid shot and then swivels to where Mishal is, lurking on the steps and then Shehza screams.	On the stairs of the nightmare house.	Shehza and Mishal.	Shehza has her phone in her hand facing forward with flashlight on.
Day 1	Number 6	Night	Shehza is standing in front of the mirror, fixing her hair and then the killer appears in the mirror. This shot is a mid shot. The camera then swivels showing Shehza's turning moment to see whether the killer is really there, but Mishal is gone.	In the normal house, in front of mirror.	Shehza and Mishal,	Shehza and Mishal follow the regular character costumes. The mirror is an essential prop here.
Day 1	Number 7	Night	The door opens creepily, this is a mid shot, and then a full body shot is used to show Mishal's character walking down the dark hallway.	A narrow room with a curtain in the background, blowing in the wind.	Mishal	Mishal wearing mask and dark clothes.

Assignment 3 - Film trailer proposal

Audience Research Conclusions

Our questionnaire results provided us with insight on how to make an effective trailer for our demographic.We will definitely try to make the majority of the favoured options appear in our trailer, those that may not appear are because we are limited with locations, such as the abandoned house that was the most favoured setting. We will try to film a girl being haunted by a spirit, as it was the most requested out of the three options we provided and as it will be possible to film. Due to the questionnaire, we now know details like what type of music (suitable for our genre) our audience prefers and which monster they find most intriguing (so we can encourage the audience to watch the trailer), because of this I think we can make an effective trailer.

Genre

Our film has the genre of horror. Our trailer will follow the genre conventions because these conventions work effectively for horror films and make them more recognisable, this will also give rough guidelines for our trailer to follow so we are aware of what we can film for the trailer. We won't be following all the conventions, like the involvement of a priest,  as it would make the audience lose interest in the plot very quickly as it would seem predictable, and the character of the priest usually used to solve the problem, if included in the trailer, I believe it will be less scary for the audience.

Content/ Structure

Our film will be called Incubus and we chose this as it was the most popular out of the options we provided when we asked our audience what our film's title should be. Our group personally liked this title the most as well as it sounds mysterious, threatening and scary, relating to the plot and horror genre itself. Our film focuses on a teenage girl who is haunted by nightmares containing the same masked killer, and it begins to come after her in real life as well. We plan to reveal a small amount of the story but enough to make sure our audience is aware of the plot. Our tagline will probably be Don't Dare Dream, to make sure the audience can remember it clearly and to catch their attention.

Audience

Our target audience is of the ages of 13 and above. The target demographic is people with the average disposable income and those who are of normal class and are actively interested in horror movies and perhaps things like the supernatural. The trailer will probably appeal to this audience because we plan on following horror conventions and the answers from the questionnaire as they were given by people from this demographic.

Representation

The main teenage girl will be seen as a vulnerable and victimized, showing how the monster affects her and her life. The monster itself is masked and wearing all black, to make him seem threatening and mysterious, and the therapist is seen wearing a lab coat and makeup to look mature and professional.

Institution

Our trailer will be distributed as a part of the film campaign and we will probably release the trailers in front of other horror film in the cinema to ensure the right demographic is watching it.