Planning

G324 ADVANCED PORTFOLIO Planning

I create an Emaze presentation to present my planning ideas for my film trailer

To help with my planning and plot synopsis I found several trailers in the psychological thriller genre but ensured that they were all very different in the plot line to give me a wide range of trailers to look at and take inspiration form.

Plot synopsis

The film is set in a suburban, quaint  town, a family are brutally murdered, fortunately a young girl survives she is the ‘middle’ child of the family. After being taken to hospital for her wounds she beings to see flash backs of that night. The doctors say her memory is damaged but the unknown face of the murdered haunts her thoughts . To help her remember she finds the help of a ‘viewer’ – someone who can access people’s subconscious memories – She entrust in him her deepest darkest secrets of the past as the viewer begins to unlock the girls troubled mind. AS her memories begin to appear and become more vivid her personality changes and her actions more hostile , she finds herself blacking out and ending up in the psychiatric ward of the hospital. Becoming increasingly nervous and anxious at what the viewer saw in her memories he sent to have her tested, shortly after this the viewer is found dead at the hospital and the girl released. She decides to hire a P.I. Looking through the case over and over the P.I finds a ‘trail’ and begins to act upon it . Suspiciously after this the P.I is murdered , the girl then takes the case back into her own has picking up from where she left off. Months pass by and continuous deaths of those who try to help the girl occur yet the police have uncovered nothing and her case is getting nowhere. For her own safety she is taken under Witness Protection to prevent her from being the next target, the police suspect the killer is tormenting the girl and making her life a living hell. the girl becomes increasingly more agitated and has personality shifts, after moving to her new location the police provider her with counselling and help for her audial. Through this she unlocks more mysterious memories, even remembering murders she was never there to witness. Years pass by and eventually the girl settles and puts her traumatic past behind her, she starts a family and a completely new life. However the dreams and thoughts haunt her still has she beings to see the victims of her past being murdered as if see was looking down on them. One day her daughter finds a journal with records and a dairy entry of each of the victims in her mother’s past, seeing what her daughter has found she is keen to take a look. However she is horrified at what she reads on the blood stained pages of this little black book, eventually reaching the last pages in the book she finds pages entitled with her husbands and each of her child’s names. The book has one last thing written in the back ‘the ending is always the best’ All of a sudden she has a flash back to the night of her family were murdered and then finds herself standing over her husband’s body with a blooded knife and the little black book. 


 After creating my plot synopsis i converted my ideas into shots and created a storyboard templete to present them on. I then colour coded each of the individual shots to which setting they are being flimed in. 

After planning out my shots in my story board we decided to make an animatic from the image I drew out on my paper copy of my story board. We used premier pro to insert the imags and create our animatic. 

After planning my plot synopsis and creating my story board I decied to work in a pair on my trailer, this helped me with the filming schedual and timing for getting all the filming done and able to edit.