PLANNING - Narrative Ideas UPDATED

After a few discussions with members of my group, we decided to slightly make changes to some areas of our narrative


Title of Film trailer: REBORN 

Characters/Actors: 4 ghost hunters - Me, Sophie Whitlock (ghosthunter who gets possessed by Charlotte Manson's ghost), Shaughna Phillips and Joshua Duff. These actors won't be paid but are willing to work, which suits our groups overall budget of £0.

Settings: City of London Academy classroom and the nearby church. Most of the trailer will be filmed in the church for the action scenes. The classroom room will be used to show the ghosthunters planning how they are going to catch Charlotte Manson's ghost. 

Narrative: based on a true story, the Charles Manson murders in real life. Our group decided to base our narrative on the real Charles Manson but add a unique twist. This is why our antagonist is called 'Charlotte Manson'. It flips the stereotype of females being inferior and getting killed first in Horror Films.
Our storyline consists of four ghost hunters looking for the ghost of Charlotte Manson, a mass murderer of South London, Bermondsey in the late 1960s (based on the real Charles Manson). Rumours within Bermondsey say that the spirit of Charlotte Manson is trapped within the local church that her body was buried under and this is the church we will be filming at. This is also the location of which many of her Victims are buried at.
Her spirit possesses one of the ghost hunters when they enter the church (Sophie Whitlock). Sophie starts acting differently towards the others. Whenever they make ghost jokes she doesn’t laugh or respond in anyway. Her face begins to turn paler as the trailer goes on showing that she is clearly possessed. The spirit is now fully REBORN (relates to our title) within Sophie's body, so Sophie starts killing the other 3 ghost hunters. The spirit of Charlotte Manson is trying to recreate the murders of the late 1960s.

Tagline: 'Manson's back…' We believe this tagline is catchy and mysterious at the same time. It will be easily remembered by our target audience.

Editing Styles or techniques: We agreed that we were going to use a handheld camera for some of the scenes in our trailer, e.g. running scenes to give the effect of realism and illustrate that the ghost hunters within the story are inexperienced ghosthunters because they are young. We will also use some steady camera shots, like panning and tilting, to illustrate our skill and understanding of Horror Trailers.

Props/Costumes: Within our £0 budget. Everyone will wear their own clothes nothing extravagant. Dark coloured casual clothing will be worn by all the characters within the trailer apart from Sophie. Sophie will wear lighter colours than everyone else to break the conventions of horror. This will also make her stand out to the audience more and make her look innocent, so that it is unbelievable that she is killing her fellow ghosthunters. We decided that our killer won't have any props like Murder weapons. This will add the element of mystery that we believe our target audience is seeking from our trailer. The only significant prop being used by the ghosthunters in the story will be the Cross.

We have also developed our story boards and filming schedules for our group. We created our filming schedules so that every member of our group knows what things they are doing and when they are doing them. These filming schedules list the dates we are filming on, director, actors, setting, camera shots/angles, lighting, actors costume for continuity, etc.

Age Rating: Our film will be aged at young people aged 16-21, So we feel that a Certificate Rating of 15 will be suitable for our trailer because nobody younger than 15 can rent or buy a 15-rated VHS, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, game, or watch a film in the cinema with this rating. Films under this category can contain some adult themes, hard drugs, strong language and one use of very strong language, moderate-strong violence/sex references, and undetailed sex activity. This all suits our target audience as they are over the age of 15.