Shot Ideas

Type of shots to consider featuring in our Horror Movie Trailer

As we are a group and want all our ideas to be heard and considered, we decided to individually do a list of the type of shots we think we should include in our trailer. We then sat as a group and discussed each of our ideas, chose the ones we felt we good and put them in narrative order. It was important for us to decide on shot early on, so that when it came to filming it would be easier to direct as we knew exactly what shots would be included and when. It also helped creating our storyboard quickly and efficiently. 

 Ashley: These are my ideas of the shots that relate to our final concept for our horror teaser trailer:

Birds eye view of the victim sleeping/laying down

Midshot of the girl struggling in her sleep/while she is dreaming

Track in shot into her eye (zoom shot).When she gets up and stares in space:

When running away/ trying to escape from the antagonist:

Steady cam – which follows subject’s movement.

High angle shot of the victim running.

Canted shot of the Antagonist scraping wall with the iconic weapon (Crowbar).

Point of view shot/ over the shoulder of the Antagonist watching the victim trying to escape.

Close up shot Antagonist  pulling the girl’s hair .

Over the shoulder of antagonist attacking the girl or using the Crowbar to pick out her hair

 Medium close up Point of view/over the shoulder of a bloody hand

Long shot showing the wall with hair strands spelling out a short message

Nadine: These are my ideas of the shots that I think would work well in our horror teaser trailer. I found it very important to make sure i included a variety as it makes a teaser trailer much more interesting and work well with editing.

Crabbing shot- Medium close-up/ closeup: view of crowbar scraping along wall

Over the shoulder shot: antagonist watching a potential victim with long hair with crowbar over back

Medium close up, high angle/birds eye view shot: victim struggling in sleep

Extreme close up: Eye opening in a chance (zooms in)?

Longshot: Torture type chamber with a barber/hairdresser type chair in middle with clippings of hair surrounding

Eye level, Mid shot: Of killer (lighting will only reveal from nose downwards)

Mid shot: potential victim struggling in sleep

Steady cam, match of action: victim running away constantly looking back hair swishing (make-up blood stained face) ? 

Two shot: potential victim brushing hair in front of mirror see's antagonist in reflection who then disappears

High angle medium close up: antagonist hand dragging head back towards chair crowbar comes into shot about to swing down into shot (edit will quickly cut this out to show suspense)

Medium close-up: victim sitting up screaming with marks on face (steady zoom out to quickly reveal what has been done to her)

  
    Lekan: Here are some ideas I thought of
      Pan shot: this shot will help establish the surroundings of the room which consists of a girl lying in a bed right in the middle of the room.
     
       Close up: this shot will help the audience get the concept of our trailer because this shot will show her face before going into the dream and this close up will show the detail of her face.

      Extreme Close Up: this shot will consist of the camera moving onto the female actors BIG eyes, to show the audiene that the trailer is now in the dream and at dream.

Over The Shoulder Shot: this shot will consist of our pyscho antagonist as we would not want to reveal who the killer is we will have many over shoulder shot so we can show the audience glimpses.

High Angle Shot: This shot will show the victim running away from the antagonist.

Cut shots: Having a vairety of cut shots will make the audience always be on the edge of their seats of this trailer as having cut shots anything can happen within a blink of an eye.

Match on action: this will be very important and this shot will be where the proagonist and antagonist make contact with each other, on this match on action this will consist of a vairety of shots:
Medium close up
Close up
Extreme close up
Low angle
over the shoulder

Medium close up: show the girl waking up and sitting up on her bed.

Close Up: Girl wakes up from the dream with having this close up shot it will show the audience the blood coming from her eyes and scars on her face.