The Teaser

After the feed back on my film, i have reshot the whole film. Sticking to the location, hand held, and the camera man being the victim, the changes i have made is making it much longer, adding text, ('this year' and so on) and my killer. As well as changing the teaser, i have sort of worked out a working title 'The Outcasts', idea of people living in the country are crazed pscopaths that kill people who trespas their land. I got the idea from my friends making jokes about how my grand-dad (a farmer) would shoot them for being on the his land. It is clear that from other horror movies people beilve that all farmers own a gun and like to shoot at people. I have bent this idea to a crazed shadow figure attacking students with a sword. In the the teaser it is in a chase/stalck scene where a surviour is being hunted down. I done this by having the killer follow the victim but where the camera turns, the killer moves away from it at the same time, so the audience can never see the killer before its too late. The 'shink' sword like sound in the teaser is completly diegetic, i made it by sliding the sword along it, then quickly moving away from the gate befor the victim turns around (this took a little practise). With the added pause texts the teaser is quite effective, in the way you have to watch the whole thing, keeps you 'hocked' in. Also i have managed to give the idea that it is a horror and its based in the countryside, without givng too much information away, (much like a real teaser). Me and my co-directors did have other ideas, such as have the killer quickly dash behind the bush, only allowing the audience to have seen the killer. This didn't work as we needed the victim to turn around quickly, and in that time the killer would of had to make the 'shink' noice and dash behind the bush, which we found to be impossible. I wanted to edit the teaser as little as posible to to keep it looking 'real', the only editing is the text, and a upped the colour temp because originaly very dull and bright, upping the colour temp gave it more 'life' and the idea that nothing bad can happen during the day is challenged.