The Story

Below I speak about my film teaser trailer-film plot and then speak about how I decided on the genre. Once I had decided on this all I planned out some ideas of shots i would use, clip ideas etc using storyboards, as seen on the previous post.

Three students get back from visiting University. One student is seen as lazy, another is seen as a smart alake, and the other one is a complete drama queen. After various pranks and misbehaving at college there just out of pirsion maths teacher has had enough. Starting on a on going horrific torturing of students and others for his pleasure. The teaser trailer will not show much of the plot, or even give away any of the plot. It will introduce the three main charcters being the students, using freeze frame and captions. It will also show some of the torturing to show the audience the genre and give them the sense of a thriller/horror genre film.

I decided against doing a comedy film as most good jokes have been done before and it would have turned out to be a bit of a cliché, although it would have been a nicer topic to do. After deciding against a comdey genre film teaser trailer, I began to look into other genres like action and sci-fi,I soon realised both these genres had connotations/various elements that i would not be able to reproduce in a good way.

Action genre films usually contain a lot of extreme action footage for example, a car chase, or a big gun fight, or Parkour, jumping from buildings etc as i would not be able to re-create the extreme action footage i thought this genre wouldnt work. Also i thought about a Sci-fi genre film teaser trailer but realised it would not work as I would need to use a lot of specail effects to re-create various Sci-fi genre film elements, for example, outter space, laser guns, aliens, space ships etc. After looking through film genres I ended up deciding on a thriller/horror film as the elements in that specfic genre would work when producing the film.