Mise En Scene and Location

The theme of our trailer is horror, so the suitable thing to do is to link everything we use and wear to a horror theme. The actors within the trailer are returning back from a party, the girls have high spirits and are singing along to the music while videoing themselves with a hand held camera. suddenly the car runs out of petrol and the girls are stranded on the side of the road in the middle of a woodland area that they are not familiar with. There is a killer on the lose but the face is never revealed, he is wearing dark clothing and can hardly ever see anything that would trigger who the killer is. the girls are chased around the woods, while different shots are filmed of them in situations and how there feeling.

Mise En Scene

As the girls are returning from a party they have to be dressed quite casually but dressed up with all makeup on and hair done. they are wearing dresses and coats, not suitable for running around in the woods. the car we used was Leanne's as it was the car that had the most space in the back for the shot of the killer. we smothered makeup down our faces to make it look like the girls were distressed, also mud on knees and arms to make it look like we had been rolling around and hiding within dirty areas. hair was messed up to make it look more realistic. a lot of effort was put in to look the best we could and right for the situation we was pretending to be in. we used a male to play the killer as we lost a member of our group after the first lot of filming, however a male was better at playing the part because of the size of him was a lot bigger then the actors. we needed a prop to distract the actors as they are driving to make them stop, we thought a pram would be best for this because the idea of a baby in the middle of the woods would make anyone stop in there tracks, it also give thats scary and mystery style to it asking questions about why it is there, while the girls stop the killer does something to there car and they can no longer drive it. they assume it must be petrol. we borrowed the pram from one of jess's neighbours who was kind enough to lend it to us. we used a phone to display 999 to show that they are trying to get help because they are scared. we also used the hazard lights on the car that symbolizes SOS.

Location

we chose this location because it was out of the way for the convenience of us as we didn't want to many cars coming down otherwise it would of taken a lot longer to get the road shots, we did have a few distractions but we quickly resolved them, the second lot of filming had to be shot in a different place as we went back to the first place and got asked to move by a local resident. we tried to find somewhere we could pull over easily and still use car lights that wouldn't look too different in our shots because of the surroundings. We had to film late at night because of the story line returning back from a party so it had to be dark as well as the trailer being the genre of horror the location had to look as scary as possible. we needed a lot of trees and bushes around so there could have been many places that the killer could hide also where we could get some decent shots from.

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