My director and I have begun strategizing specific story developments for our film now that we have a general idea of what we would like to achieve. This will help us when we begin pre-production.
Our horror-comedy film would have lasted around two hours. We opted to finish the primary narrative points because we are creating trailers for this movie, which will allow us to cast the roles and give the characters more complex characteristics.
During the brainstorming process, my director and I came up with the following.
Since this is partially found footage, there will be five characters total: the camera guy, the sound guy, and the group leader. We will also have a person that the leader drags along with them, either a family member or a close friend/significant other. We are also going to have another person that they find somewhere in the beginning of the film, the expert.
The movie will be set in the early 2000s and will feature a couple of high school drop outs that have a Facebook page. These characters will be 18-19 and will do anything for views, including going to 'haunted houses', abandoned buildings and even murder grounds, as they are doing in this film. They drive up from somewhere in the south to Rohde Island after hearing about string a murders that happened in a woods near a small town in the 1970s-90s, which is still an unsolved mystery.
While grabbing some food from a nearby gas station, they all run into a local from the small town who is an expert on the murders that happened a couple years ago. After a debrief they take them with them and they drive up to the woods.
Once in the woods weird things happen. They explore and the sound guy realizes they are going in circles. An argument pursues and they split up; sound and expert, and Leader, camera, leaders person. All before finding out the true secrets of the woods.
As for the genre elements and how we are going to achieve them/make them look different:
The horror trailer is going to rely heavily on editing and different length clips than the comedy.
So for the editing of it, I'll be using different lenses and filters for the trailers, the comedy will have a more saturated and high colorization while the horror will contrast this and have a blue toned lighting and emphasize shadows in the woods. As for similarities of the mise en scene in the trailers, they will be wearing the same costumes for each, and they will have a vibrant color scheme. For the comedy, this will go perfectly and look natural in the film. While in the horror this color pallet will create a chiaroscuro lighting technique and place more emphasize on the characters making them look like they are not supposed to be there, like they have been...misplaced. The characters will be the focal point and make them look harsh in a lifeless setting. This will place in perfectly to the context of the film, since they are really not supposed to be there, like the woods is telling them to get out and they don't belong there. And for the camera shots, besides the obviously hand held and POV shots for the footage, we will also be using Dutch angles for more uncertainty and extra footage the characters take. As for the comedy sound and editing will play a bigger part then mise en scene. Comedy will have more sound effects and will have much more dialogue included than the horror. The main part of this will also be the actors tone of voice when saying certain lines so that it will be more genre compliant.
As for the angle, it's at a Canted/Dutch angle taken at a tilted horizon signifying the imbalance or uncertainty I would like to apply to our film.
Blair Witch Project (1999)
As for the comedy, we can see here to the right an image taken from a comedy movie called Old School. We can see the visual differences between both this image and the one shown above, and how saturated it looks compared to the found footage horror. The difference between these two are the main visual differences I want to accomplish in my two trailers.
Old School (2003)
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