To consider every aspect of my teaser trailer a lot of planning must be conducted. After brainstorming several ideas and thinking up different settings and story lines.
After depicting what was the best and most realistic story lines this is a break down I have come up with that covers many aspects to allow me to have a clear view of how my piece is going.
Taking inspiration from dark, haunting trailers such as Frozen and Hostel I have picked out similar conventions and brainstormed ideas based on a psychological thriller.
These ideas have come about from location viewing, story lines that work well with the equipment I have however it is still a rough outline and during the process may alter slightly.
Visions.
Title- Wired – this is due to the thought of electrical/scientific equipment/ investigations.
Genre- psychological thriller
Target audience- 18-35 years who enjoy psychology, deep thinking independent films
Style- gritty looking, nothing to glamorous on camera creating a sense of kidnap, torture and danger.
Here below is a series on images, inter-titles and other music videos that has helped inspire ideas and create an overall look.
Plot summary
Teaser trailers do not intend to create a flowing, obvious story line it is simply a hint to what is to come creating a sense of genre and the use on inter-titles sometimes help give an overview of the plot.
The overview I have come to is this. A young male age 19-20 goes missing with no trace of murder or anything else just disappears. The rest of the film consists of bodies of other people similarly been taken used for scientific experiments and torture to see how the human body reacts. More and more happens throughout to create suspense and struggle to get away. A shrine to him throughout with many close up stalker like images and videos strung throughout to create a sense of being watched and researched.
Narrative
The trailer will hopefully begin with the sense of someone missing, a odd figure surrounded in this shrine to him and images, headlines presenting to the male that no one knows where he is or where to look so a sense of being stuck is given. Then the trailer will build with quicker shots of escape, torture and scientific equipment and end with the shrine being destroyed or the candles blown out to symbolise the end.
