Initial Ideas For Own Video

Camera Angles

For our music video me and my group member decided to brainstorm several ideas in which would be effective for our specific horror trailer. By using the techniques used in existing media trailers that i analysed previously i used these ideas to inspire my own below:

Close Ups
Extreme close ups - Show emotion and flashes of scary character
Mid shot - Important to show scary character
long shot
P.O.V shot
Eyeline match
Low angle
High angle
Ariel shot
Over the shoulder
Establishing Shot - Clearly show setting

Editing

Editing is very important in a horror trailer as it tends to go from slow at the beginning to fast at the end following Todorov's theory.

Blunt Cut
Jump Cut
Fade to Black
Flash to Black
Establishing Shots
Ellipsis
Shot-Reverse-Shot
Cut to flashback - shown by a black and white shot to signify the difference ( needed to show the past when the girl is drowning to the present)

Mise En Scene

Props-
A Car
An old newspaper article
A limited amount (emphasises seclusion in forest)

Characters-
Two girls going to the forest and the ghost who drowned
Two boys going to the forest and the ghost who drowned
One boy and one girl and the ghost who drowned

Costumes -
Old fashioned dress for ghost scary character (distinguishes that she is not from the present time)
Normal everyday clothing for the two other characters showing that there ordinary people
Dull colour clothing to fit in with horror genre of trailer

Sound Effects

Screams
Heartbeats
Heavy breathing
none - (to make music sound more dramatic)

Music

Mainly want a song which starts slow, sad and eerie to begin with but turns fast towards middle and end to add that dramatic horror effect.

Wake Me Up Inside - Evanescence
This is going to hut - Hans Zimmer

Special Effects

Slow motion
Speed up shots
special effect such as a swirl to distinguish past from present

Setting

Forest/woodland location
A lake/river
Part set in a house

Dialogue

None
Limited Dialogue
Lots of dialogue (as oppose to captions to be a narrative for the trailer)