One of the main mise en
scenes that make a trailer/Movie verisimilitude is the costume. Our trailer is
set in the modern day so the settings did make contribute to the verisimilitude.
However, our genre is horror and thriller which makes it hard to make it
realistic and for the audience to believe into it. This is why the paranormal
villain in our trailer must look scary and believable. This can be done through
the use of editing and customs. We decided on buying a mask and knife for a few
of the scenes and experimented it with to see how it looks on camera. The first
scene in the trailer that you see the paranormal villain we do not use the mask
and it’s more of a black creature. This creates confusion and enigmas.
However, the mask we
decided to use was a copyright of Scream so we could not use it. We realised
this after filming scene 3 so we had to change the shooting timetable, as now
we had to reshoot scene 3 without the Scream copyrighted mask. This meant that
we now did not have a villain or supernatural creature so
we were back at the drawing boards. Other than the 'Scream' mask, all the other
masks were very childish and unrealistic. So we could not just simply
use another mask, which seems to be the better option as using editing
techniques and being original with the creature would help us gain more marks.
Mood board from FrouzonAhmad
We decided to do a mood
board on different villains /supernatural creatures from
horror/thriller movies to help us create one of our own. The mood
board consisted of villains such as the Grudge, Chucky, Freddy Vs
Jason etc. what we realised was that all the creatures either had a scary
face or a mask. This was how the audience recognised them as the villain.
A typical horror/thriller convention is to have a scary villain whom has
scary physical features that will scare the audience without them even doing
anything gruesome. Realistically speaking, it would be really difficult to
create a very horrific creature without a big budget. It also can be difficult
to be original when creating one as it will have similarities to
other monsters from other movies, mainly because supernatural creatures
were introduced all the way in the 1890s Le Manoir du diable (The
haunted Castle 1896) was screened and credited as being
the first horror film. Ever since there’s been many thousands of
the supernatural creatures in movies and somehow our one will
have similarities with a few. On the bright side, it is acceptable to
have similarities with another movies' villain as long as they’re
not exactly the same like it was when we use the scream
mask.
It
was almost like we had a head start as in the previous scene we had
included a creature that had no face and was a black creature. This
creature created enigmas on its own, as it was simply a black figure
and there are hardly any supernatural monsters in movies that are similar.
So it was new and the audience want to know what it is and how is it
dangerous. Even though such a creature has not been in horror/thriller
films, we did get the inspiration from another mythical creature named
"Slender man". The reason why he ha similarity to our creature
is because he is thought to be mysterious and his actions lead to a trial of
questions. He also is faceless like our creature, this in a certain perspective
can be seen to go against the scary supernatural convention, as it is the face
that usually creates horror and terrorises the audience. It is essential for us
to create that mystery and to make sure that the audience
cannot predicts its actions and motives as our trailer is thriller as
well as horror. Thriller is meant to keep the audience in the dark
and create suspense rather than letting
them successfully predict what sort of creature it is and
what its motives and back story is.
Therefore we decided to
use this creature throughout the trailer, as it is eligible for both of our
genres. It terrifies the audiences yet creates mystery and
enigmas that leave the audience at the edge of their seats.
-Frouzon
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