Preliminary Task

Yesterday we began to film our preliminary task. Our topic was 'Therfield'. As we are leaning towards the idea of doing a horror teaser trailer for our main task we thought it would be a good idea to begin to get to grasps with filming the horror genre on camera to try and adjust to the angles and movements in order to create a effect on our audience.
We decided to go along the lines of a simple 'Stepford Wives' theme where everything seemed to perfect, we then looking back on the super 8 trailer and also 'The Unborn' decided to break up the footage into smaller clips with narrative on a black screen to set the plot line summary and hint to the audience the relevant information and also the tone of the film. We have thought up the title 'The haunting of Therfield' very much like 'The haunting of Connecticut' the almost documented effect of the title makes it seem all the more real. I also came up with the idea of a catch phrase for our teaser trailer for our priliminary task, as by watching 'Super 8' realised it stuck in the audiences head and would get the curious about what they had just seen and would want to know more. My own idea was that we use the phrase 'The lesson has started' as it relates back to the title 'The haunting of Therfield' but also through a simple phrase becomes more eiry and alarming to the audience.
We only did a small number of shots as we wanted to keep the teaser trailer short as that seems to be almost a trade mark of teaser trailers. We used some classic images of a spooky school effect such a writing on a white board and canted angles of signs representing the school departments such as maths. However we used a very spontanious idea, as our friend Suzi had a white contact lense in her eye and we realised how eirey it was and asked if she would not mind appearing in the trailer. Watching back seemed the most effective after shotting 3 or 4 takes we saw one of the takes was rather blury and thought that it was rubbish but looking back at it, it looks rather effective and we could possibly use it in the trialer. We have started to translate the footage onto Adobe Premire. We plan this afternoon to look at the footage and begin to edit it into the teaser trailer which I am thouroughly looking forward to.