There are three main locations that will feature in my film trailer; The School, The Classroom and The Woods. I have chosen these locations as my horror film is focused on teenagers and will be watched by a teenage audience. This means that to make my film as realistic as possible I must use locations that teenagers would be familiar with. I also wanted to keep as close to conventional Slasher locations as possible by featuring an isolated area but also having some link to school. This is why I decided to focus my trailer on the teenagers breaking into the school and becoming locked in by Jackson, until the Final Girl manages to escape and has a final showdown with Jackson in the woods next to the school. Each of these locations have connotations for the audience. The woodland area is the location that the audience would most associate with horror. This is because is connotes isolation, darkness and an unsafe location at night. Whereas, school usually connotes learning and safety. This will add to the terror for the audience as a school usually seen as a positive and safe place, and in this instance it is opposite.

The majority of the trailer will be set in the school where the teenagers break into at night. Most of the action in the trailer will be built up in the school location as this is where Jackson begins to torment his victims. The windows and doors of the classroom will be very useful for these particular moments. This is because it will allow Jackson to appear and disappear very easily, making the characters thing they're just seeing things.

The classroom is where the teenagers are situated when strange things start to happen as Jackson starts to play with the teenagers before disposing of them one by one. The classroom will mainly be focused on in the beginning of the trailer to show the teenagers messing around and then things beginning to go missing

The middle section of the trailer will mainly focus around the school as the teenagers try to find a way to escape. Also the majority of the deaths in the narrative are around the school not the specific classroom. However the actual deaths of the victims won’t feature in my trailer as it will give too much of the narrative away. The hallway will be a good setting for the victims torment. This is because, especialy in an empty school, a hallway appears empty and isolated, with no way of knowing who or what is lurking around the corner.

The woodland area will only feature shortly in the fast montage at the end of the trailer. This is because the woodland area would only be featured near the end of the film when Alex escapes from the school. I knew I wanted to feature the woods as some point in the trailer as they hold many hidden meanings. No one knows exactly what is lurking in there which allows the woods to play on society’s fear of the unknown. It is also a typical isolated location; perfect for a Slasher film.

Trailer

Film PosterFor the Cirque Du Slay film poster, I am going

to take the image in the woodland area. I chose to take it here instead of using a plain background as it will allow to create a symbiotic link between the trailer and the film poster. It will also give the audience an insight into the narrative of the film. I am going to take the image in the late afternoon so it is partially dark. This will allow the background of the image to be dominated by dark colours, allowing Jackson’s mask to stand out. It also appears to be more common for Slasher film posters to feature an image taken in a location that relates to the narrative. This is similar to the film posters for Friday the 13th and Hatchet 3.

Front CoverFor the front cover of my film magazine,

Premiere, I have chosen to take an image on a plain background, and in a woodland area. This is because taking the image in a woodland area would link to the narrative, but it could make it very difficult to make the sell-lines visible and easy to read. The image on the plain background would make the magazine look more professional so is likely to be the better option. I will compare the two images and decide which one I think looks more professional and would make the appearance of the Front Cover more effective.