Planning- Scripts and Voiceovers

After our research into the structure of different thriller films, we decided how we wanted to begin with a slow tempo start and build into a crescendo of music and footage montage. This meant that we could exploit the script carefully to convey the narrative of the film to the audience at the start whilst gradually building the tempo. However in the scene we would still include horror/thriller mise-en-scene to portray the genre of the film immediately through the use of low key lighting and eerie non-digetic sound.

Script:

George: "My girlfriend asked me to meet her here, what about you?"

India: "My boyfriend asked me to come here for a camping trip for my birthday!"

Sean: "Wait, no way, it’s my birthday too!"

Hayley: "Same…"

 George: "Same…"

Hayley: "I really don’t like this."

This is a feature we saw in our research of 1408, they opened with a conversation which set the narrative in place for the film which was about the death of his daughter as seen previously in the research. For us we had to tie a connection between 4 strangers and make this clear for the audience. We was able to achieve this through our dialogue in our script and starting the film in this way.

Secondly we decided to use a deep stereotypical British male voice to conform to the conventions of thriller trailers. However we saw a feature which was using simple, yet effective wording of "This Summer" in The "Lucy" trailer which can be seen below. To make our trailer unique we decided to incorporate these two elements together using the voice over and also the bold statement wording of "this summer" to engage the audience in our film. This will then promote the fact that the film will be coming out in the summer, however the fact that it is a broad statement saying "this summer" means the audience will engage further if they want to find out exactly when it will be released.

 Voiceover: "This summer, 4 strangers, get a surprise they wasn’t expecting!"

Lastly in our script we have include a short piece of digetic diologue to compliment the soundtrack as we felt if all of the music was non-digetic the audience would lose interest. This is a feature of trailer conventions we saw in 1408 when they combined the use of non-digetic and digetic sound in the conversation over skype with his wife, it always them to ensure  the audience is engage and we found this effective when we watched it ourselves.

Sean: "Help me"

George: "Get in"