Ideas

Once my research was completed I had a good understanding of the basics of horror and thriller such as the typical codes and conventions. Once both me and Wafa and I both completed all our research we decided to hold a meeting in which we discussed our ideas for the trailer. We realised that we had different ideas and so in order to find a similarity in our ideas or an new idea that we both liked we decided to create a small visual storyboard with our  ideas. 
This is my small visual storyboard with my ideas:

My idea consists of a supernatural yet unknown and mysterious haunts and murders vulnerable people who are cursed. I want the trailer to include CCTV footage to show that he cannot be seen by anyone but the victim. Also I want the character to be preferably Asian in order to attract a more multicultural audience. I would want there to be a sense of isolation for the victim to make them feel 'alone' so perhaps we could film in a dark and narrow alleyway. By creating a supernatural creature that has not been used in any other movie or is similar to other movie villains we may attract the audience more as they would want to know about our villain. 

Once both Wafa and I finished our small visual storyboard we decided to find what they had in common and elaborated on that. Once we were able to that we came up with the following: 

SYNOPSIS

 The first scene in the trailer will be of an Asian girl sitting outside a dull and isolated building whilst on her laptop. She decided to go on a website that is rumoured to cause a supernatural creature to come and haunt but she does not believe it and thinks not much of it even when the website warns her. A few days later she is walking through an alleyway alone and feels the presence of a dark force behind her. After looking back and seeing nothing is there she carries on walking but then the supernatural creature hits her with an unknown object. She then gains conscience in a toilet and still feeling a little dizzy she walks toward the sink, which has a mirror on top and washes her face. When she looks at the mirror she sees the supernatural creature and runs away. After another Asian girl decides to go on the cursed website after hearing the rumors and is then chased by the villain who at the last scene is about to reveal its identity. 

One of the reasons why Wafa and I decided to use this synopsis is to warn those who do not use the internet safely about people who are murdered for meeting strangers they met online. Our idea shows social medias in a negative ways and shows the risks people take by using them and entering the personal details on them.

Scenes

Even though we planned the scenes for our trailer realistically and with our budget in mind there still might be slight changes in the scenes when actually filmed and edited together. A reason for this may be that we might find that an extra scene may make the trailer look more professional or by editing out a scene the trailer may look more slick and run smoothly. 

During our meeting Wafa and I planned the following scenes:

• The trailer will start with a green band and horror institution introduction footage, which preferably will be Lionsgate.
• Samana (the actor playing the first victim) is seen through a CCTV camera and another regular one of which she is sitting outside an isolated building. The audience will not be able to see what she is doing on her laptop. This scene will end with her closing the laptop and preparing to leave through the CCTV.
• In the second scene Samana is seen through a CCTV camera but this time she is walking through an alleyway. The CCTV camera will capture footage of only her walking but the other camera would also capture the villain, which attacks her. This scene ends with Samana falling due to being hit, however the audience will not see what attacked her through the CCTV, although through the other camera they will see the supernatural creature but not clearly.
• In the third scene Samana wakes up in a public bathroom and walks to the mirror, which then she finds the supernatural creature inside the mirror and she runs away.
• The final scene is where Ethel (the second victim) will be seen running in dark isolated corridors and is chased by the supernatural creature who keeps appearing in different sides of the corridor. Like the other scenes, there will be a consistent use of CCTV camera shots.  

Location:

Wafa and I have decided to use the following locations in our trailer:

• Alleyway
• Benches outside an isolated building
• corridors
• public bathroom

Themes

Wafa and I also decided to concentrate on the themes of our trailer. This is because if we have really meaningful and moral themes synced in our narrative structure through the mise-en-scene, character and other elements we may attract a more sophisticated audience. The Themes that we have carefully chosen are:

• Disbelief
• Uncertainty
• Truth vs. Reality
• Fear
• Isolation

Actors

Wafa and I held a meeting to discuss who to cast for our trailer and ancillary tasks. Due to this being an essential aspect we decided we can only cast actors that are generally good at acting and also meet the characters' criteria.

After a lot of careful thinking we decided to cast the following:

• Samana Gurung - An Asian girl who is seen through the opening scenes of the trailer. 
• Ethel Fuenzalida - Another Asian actor who will be seen at the last scene of the trailer

The reason why we wanted to actors to be Asian is because as I mentioned before we want our trailer and ancillary products to attract a wider audience internationally. A way to do this is to use multicultural actors and not due middle class white actors as most movie including horror use. 

Supernatural Creature

Wafa and I have discussed what type of the supernatural creature we want thoroughly. We finally decided that Wafa should as as the supernatural character. Even though we had found the actor for this role we still had not figured out what the supernatural creature will look like and also the costume it will wear. We did know that we wanted the identity of the creature to be hidden and so we could use one of  the following:

• Scream Mask
• Plain theatrical mask
• Halloween Mask
• Fully covered face

 We decided that out supernatural creature will wear fully black attire such as a long black robe. This however, is similar to the Scream's villain and my take the creativeness of our creature so we decided that the characteristics of our supernatural creature will be completely different to that of the Scream's villain. We have also decided that we will not actually show footage of our supernatural creature killing the victims so the audience become curious on how the creature kills it's victims.

Film Title

Wafa and I created a Prezi together to help us decide on which film title to use and why it will be suitable for our trailer and ancillary tasks.