Next stage's of planning our trailer

The next stage of our planning was writing a synopsis, this is made up of five sections:

• Introduction


• Devlopment


• Complication


• climax


• resolution

Here is our written Synopsis.

We did this so that it gave an outline of what the film would be about if someone read it, it then makes it easier for the viewer to follow our trailer.

We looked at Tristan Todorow's theory to help with our synopsis.
Tristan Todorow's Theory- Stories begin with an equilibruim , meaning charecters excist in some kind of stable state. Then something happens to disturb that equilbrium. The action of the story ultimatly restores a state of equilbruim.
We mirrored this theorys conventions but just using different titles, we used this theory as it seemed logical.

Shot list: We as a group have created two potential shot lists each shot list will be pretty similar just some shots will be different giving us options.
Shot list one:

1. Producer label flashes up
2. Shot of car driving past - pan shot
3. Text -"Starring Eleanor Failes"
4. In car - in the style of found footage, Dialogue between the girls about the holiday
5. Establishing shot of house as car arrives
6. Girls walking into house dialogue between two girls about the house
7. Text "Lets play a game"
8. Shot of them clinking shot glasses (Ouija board visible underneath)
9. start Ouija board - one girl pretends to be possessed
10. girl shows she joking - other girls gets angry and throws board on floor - dialogue
11. phone rings- girls look shocked
12. Text- "if your brave enough"
13. Girl answers phone - white noise coming from phone
14. slams down phone
15. girls all look at each other
16. lights turn of girls scream - 2 second silence
17. Flashing shot of girl running up stairs looking frightened
18. Girl grabbing knife (flustered)
19. Door slams and girl trys to open it (dialogue)
20. Girl running through woods away from us
21. In the style of point of view- girl running through woods
22. Girls trips and falls to the ground
23. In the style of point of view- close up of her face as she screams "somebody help me"
24. Text- Title appears
25. Text- "do you wanna play" - tag line appears
26. Text -Date release

Shot list two:

1. Producer label flashes up
2. Shot of car coming up the road
3. Text -"Starring Eleanor Failes"
4. In car - in the style of found footage, Dialogue between the girls about the holiday as they pull into the driveway
5. Establishing shot of house
6. Girls walking into house dialogue between two girls about the house
7. Text "Lets play a game"
8. Shot of girls pouring drinks(Ouija board visible next to the glasses)
9. start Ouija board - one girl pretends to see something out the window
10. girl shows she joking - other girls gets angry and throws board on floor - dialogue
11. Door slams- girls look shocked
12. Text- "if your brave enough"
13. Girl go to investigate
14. door slams again
15. girls all look at each other
16. lights flicker of girls scream - 2 second silence
17. Flashing shot of girl running down stairs looking frightened
18. Girl grabbing knife (flustered)
19. girl being pulled from under bed
20. Girl running through woods away from us
21. In the style of point of view- girl running through woods
22. Girls enclosed into a corner by the 'spirit'
23. In the style of point of view- close up of her face as she screams "what are you?"
24. Text- Title appears
25. Text- "do you wanna play" - tag line appears
26. Text -Date release

We came to the deicision we would use Shot List one this is purely because this shot list made a better story line than shot list two. We thought it was more convincing and explained our ideas better. The next stage for this section that will be done is the story board.

Name of our film and why we chose it:
We have named our film 'Darkness Awakens' we were originally indecisive of what to call our film and these are some of the names we though of:
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-Tupwood Gate
-Norwood Lodge
-Paranormal Forces
-Darkness Awakens

We chose darkness awakens as we felt it stood out the most, we could imagine buying a film with that name. We felt all the other film names were unconvincing.

We created the name "Darkness awakens" as the word Darkness- is often related to evil. As our film is about spirits this fits in well, and Awakens relates to the Ouija board as Ouija board awakens spirits.