By doing research into existing media products had a impact on my idea for our horror trailer. We were able to apply conventional ideas which helped the trailer to look more professional and also help enhance the story for the audience and make it easy to understand.
The idea of the main protagonist being a female came from the Final Girl theory by Carol Clover, where one girl who carried traits of both female and male is left to defeat the villain on her own. Having a haunted house is quite conventional for many horror films and we thought it would be interesting for the protagonist to be left in an isolated, empty and confined space which appears to have a spooky history full of secrets, which throughout the story is told. The haunted house created a basic story for us to then adapt and add more onto to create an interesting story line. By having the protagonist being trapped in the house creates more panic and it then leads to her torments and paranoia that she will go through. By also doing research we fit our story into the supernatural sub-genre, this is because you never see the villain that torments her and it creates an interesting mystery for the audience which will keep them intrigued as they will want to know what is tormenting her. We took this inspiration from Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli, 2009), The Possession (Ole Bornedal, 2012) and Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper, 1982). The found footage aspect was inspired by The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, 1999) and Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli, 2009). We decided to put these two together because we thought it would be interesting to see things from her point of view within the house and it builds more of a personal level with the protagonist. We were so inspired by the use of teen girl groups from the slasher genre, such as Scream (Wes Craven, 1996) and Sorority Row (Stewart Hendler, 2009).
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