Second Pitch

Today we presented our idea for 'Vacancy on VioletHill' to Miss Mcluckie.We presented her the plot synopsis and told her that the basic idea was to make an abridged scene from the feature length film, where the concept would be taken from one part in the plot synopsis where there's a blackout in the house and the Father goes to find his son in the darkness before being confronted with a demon faced version of his son. She was positive about the idea and thought that it was a lot more achievable than our initial plan.

She also made the point that its important to identify the codes and conventions of horror films and the way that teaser trailer portray the feature length film. As a result we will be analysing many different trailers and scenes from horror films in order to create a trailer that approaches professional quality.

Initial pitch feedback

Today we pitched our initial idea for the film trailer for ‘Mile a Minute’, being the plot we developed after a couple of meetings, to our teacher Mrs.Mcluckie. The received the following feedback:

• Considering risk assessment, it wouldn’t be safe to carry imitation guns and other weapons around, especially in public areas where it could alert other people to believing there’s real danger. Unfortunately it will be necessary for us to film scenes in public with imitation guns which would in fact breach the law.
• We also initially considered using music in the trailer that would help the feel and genre of the trailer, which would have to be copyrighted music. Mrs.Mcluckie pointed out that we can not used any copyrighted music when making a film trailer, which meant that creating a professional looking trailer of this genre would be even more difficult.

We also realised that although it wouldn’t be impossible to create a teaser trailer for this film it may have been difficult to exhibit our capabilities and make use of different filming and editing techniques. The film trailer would have most likely had to have only involved one scene in a sense similar to most teaser trailers of this sort of type of genre. We agreed that it might be a better idea to produce a teaser trailer for a horror as they conventionally use instrumental and orchestrated music which we could most likely produce using software such as Garageband. Filming a horror trailer would also involve less risks in public because most of the action will take place indoor and on private property.