Mood-board

Creating a mood-board for my teaser trailer inspired the colours and mise en scene I wished to include. Mood-boards are popular in the film industry as they give a 'feel' or 'vibe' to what the product will look like.

In this mood-board I have researched famous film scene of thrillers and the most famed emotional scenes in my plan to evoke empathy in the audience during my sequence.

Here I have created an Animoto to present my mood-board:

Character Profiles

Choosing characters for my teaser trailers is vital ensuring the character suits the role and is able to act in ways that I envision for such character.  

When first planning the murder was to be a male character - and so a male should play that role - however, after some run-ins with different actors (drop outs) I felt the role could be played by a female as a male character which gave that character a twist in the trailer.

Here I have created a slide-share illustrating the characters playing within my teaser trailer, movie poster and front cover movie magazine. 

I have done this as part of my planning for production to ensure the actors and models I am using match the characters personalities and appearances.

Through the use of costume and make-up I will be able to present the characters how I view them to look. 

** Update: in my planning stage I included the father of the young girl to be included in some scenes of my teaser trailer, however, when filming was done the scenes did not seem appropriate or relevant to the trailer and so I chose not to include this aspect to the teaser trailer.  

Planning

Detailed planning is crucial when producing a media product such as a teaser trailer - ensuring all aspects are adjusted for the genre and plot of the film is key to address the audience with a successful teaser trailer.

Characters, location, sound, lighting and plot are all addressed in this detailed Prezi illustrating the ideas and aspirations I have for my teaser trailer.

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Psychology of thriller genres

Thriller films also fall under the category of suspense and psychology films. This genre are known to promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety and nerve-wrecking tension.

What makes a good thriller film?

1. Intriguing plot / storyline
2. Involvement of the audience through direct address
3. Good sample of dialogue - screaming, crying, shouting
4. Tension building music
5. Mixture of light and dark lighting

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IMDb top ten best thriller films:

1.		Spectre (2015)
2.		Crimson Peak (2015)
3.		The Gift (2015)
4.		Jurassic World (2015)
5.		Bridge of Spies (2015)
6.		Everest (2015)
7.		Sicario (2015)
8.		Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)
9.		Knock Knock (2015)
10.		Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Outline

Thriller teaser trailers, through my own research, are the most popular and exciting genre of film and so this reason is why I believe my teaser trailer should carry the codes and conventions of a thriller teaser trailer as this will gain a large target audience. The music and sound atmosphere will be the most demanding element of creating a successful thriller trailer and so I feel this will best challenge me.

Whilst carrying out my research for teaser trailers I was deeply inspired by 'The Lovely Bones' and so I aim to recreate the plot and storyline of that film in my own teaser trailer.

Outlining my ideas for my teaser trailer is vital to inspire developments in the process of creating it:

The disappearance and murder of Emily Fields.

To enhance a more intriguing plot for the audience the murderer will feature greatly in the trailer - a voice over of the young girl will give the plot a twist (as though the young girl is speaking from the grave).

Plot - A young girl, while playing in a park/field, disappears - later pronounced dead after finding her body. The family is seen grieving while replaying the moments before her disappearance in their heads (flashbacks used to convey this). The murderer is an unsuspecting friendly man who spoke to the family during their walk through the park.

Characters - The characters involved in the teaser trailer will include the young girl who is murdered and her murderer who will be of an older- middle aged man. The family members in the trailer will include the young girls mother and her older sister. These characters are important within the sequence to emphasis the hurt and grief of the young girls disappearance and murder.

Locations - A country side walk area or park is where the young girl will disappear - this scene will be sued throughout in flashbacks and so on.
The killers house will be seen to acknowledge the character as the killer - blood and clothing will ensure the audience are aware this character killed the young girl.
I plan to also use the family's home as a location to show the grief and impact on the family in the moments after her death and disappearance.

Ideal reader - Profile

Ensuring my media products; teaser trailer, magazine front cover and movie poster had a target audience. So through developing an ideal reader I am able to provide an example of the kind of person that would be interested in my teaser trailer, movie magazine front cover and movie poster.

I was able to create this ideal reader based the results of my questionnaire.