INTRODUCTION
Our group were requested to come up with three concepts which would eventually be presented. Three concepts were chosen amongst us and each of us put in a combined effort to produce these concepts. In the end, we decided to produce concepts on: Psychological; J Horror and Slasher horrors. We delved into character profiles, theorists, and produced movie posters for these three concepts before eventually presenting them and taking feedback from other people. Once we had our chosen concept we created a final treatment for the chosen idea in more depth surrounding Todorovs theory, Propp's theory, character profiles and film influences.
3 CONCEPT IDEAS & FEEDBACK
IDEA 1 - THE ROOM
POSITIVES- Good storyline
- Easy to film - Great detail - Goes well with genre - Realistic - Clear understanding of the film trailer - Clever decision of characters - Well thought out - Good research |
AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT- Casting issues
- Work on the title - Add one more character - Who will play the antagonist |
IDEA 2 - FORBIDDEN
POSITIVES- Good name and tag-line
- Simple storyline - Clever plot - Follows the convention - Realitic characters - Good idea |
AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT- How will creature be conveyed
- Who will play antagonist - Make-up issues? - Locations is going to be restricted - How are you going to show transformation of body - Storyline could be developed - Cost? |
IDEA 3 - BLOODY MARY
POSITIVES
- Good tag-lines
- Characters have set roles - Good storyline - The students speaking into one camera - Easy to make - Well thought out characters |
AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT
- Storyline needs to be developed
- Maybe have a survivor - Is she a ghost or human (Antagonist) - Change the working title - Similar to an existing film |
FEEDBACK RESULTS
From a class of 22 which we presented our three concepts these were the results:
21 Votes - The Room
01 Votes - Forbidden
00 Votes - Bloody Mary
21 Votes - The Room
01 Votes - Forbidden
00 Votes - Bloody Mary
FINAL TREATMENT - THE ROOM (WORKING TITLE)
After the class has voted for "The Room" to be our teaser trailer we decided to produce a final treatment as a group. We did this to allow the concept to be more visual by presenting the treatment on an A2 sheet of paper. Our final treatment is an overview of our trailer idea and includes all the important conventions necessary. Below is a summary of what our final teaser trailer will be based on.
TITLE & PRODUCTION NAME
The working title of the teaser trailer is 'The Room' and our production name is 'DarkSoul Productions as we will show our logo throughout the process.
SYNOPSIS
A synopsis is a very short description of the main theme of the trailer. The synopsis gives you an insight of four students who have to overcome a deadly threat as their lives are at risk and they face the battle between life an death.
"Every two years, four students are chosen to be sacrificed to the Yurei by the Headmaster of a school. He does this in order to save his families lives as his son (The Janitor) had raped and killed a student (The Yurei) prior to these events. She is out for vengeance and so demands the Headmaster to sacrifice students to satisfy her blood thirst.
"Every two years, four students are chosen to be sacrificed to the Yurei by the Headmaster of a school. He does this in order to save his families lives as his son (The Janitor) had raped and killed a student (The Yurei) prior to these events. She is out for vengeance and so demands the Headmaster to sacrifice students to satisfy her blood thirst.
FILM INSPIRATIONS
The list of films that were used as inspiration for our horror film are based around the J-Horror genre.
- Ju-On (The Grudge) 1 & 2
- Ringu (The Ring)
- Audition
- Ju-On (The Grudge) 1 & 2
- Ringu (The Ring)
- Audition
CHARACTER PROFILES
We have included character profiles of our characters which displays a brief description about the roles they play, what they bring to the film and their characteristics and a brief explanation about each of them. We applied Propp's theory about each of the characters.
PROPS AND LOCATIONS
To begin of our locations we decided to use a classroom to establish the scenery with students. Prop's to be used would most likely be at a minimum as the J-horror genre usually don't show gruesome killings and have an element of mystery.
TODOROV'S THEORY
We incorporated Todorov's theory into our final treatment which displays the equilibrium ,disequilibrium and resolution that will take place but in the production of our teaser trailer we wouldn't include it as it ruins the cliff-hanger.