Actor Interviews

Character roles within our Trailer

The Clown (Antagonist)- Played by Katy

The clown character within our trailer stands as the sole scare factor within our trailer, so in this case we needed to make sure we used the right actor that would effectively portray the terrifying, psychotic clown that we needed. So due to the fact that Katy was tall and slender, it seemed like visually the right type to play the antagonist as both due to her height she appears very intimidating, but also her frame makes her appear as able to chase and over power three young teenage girls.

The clown as a character we wanted to come across as very mysterious, and leave a lot to the imagination and to the receiving audience's wonder, as we believe that revealing too much about the clowns, reasons and intentions on the three girls wouldn't be how a professional film trailers plot would be structured.

Jennifer (Protagonist)- Played by Myself
As one of the three young teenagers, I felt that both due to our project being different to our as production, we decided we wanted to change the type of roles we were used to, and due to last year, and me playing the antagonist, I wanted to challenge myself into a protagonist role and due to the fact that we are true friends in real life, we believed that i would have good on screen chemistry with the other two protagonists.

The character them self, shows to have  similar interests to her friends, but we also want to draw differences between the group, we believe that their way of thinking when it comes to overcoming the clown, Jennifer will be stronger and have different opinions to her friends, which will possibly cause problems when trying to overcome the psychotic clown.

Mae(Protagonist)-Played by Mae
Our second protagonist, Mae, would be more of a shy character in contrast to Jennifer's character, although will voice her opinion within the group, and often finds herself in the middle of the two other protagonists, Jennifer and Molly.

Mae believed that due to her success as a protagonist last year, she would be more comfortable returning to a protagonist role within our production this year. Our group agreed as we believed that she would be very well suited to the role due to her appearance as innocent and calm looking

Molly(protagonist)- Played by Nadiye
Our final protagonist Molly, is shown as a very domineering character within the friendship group, constantly bickering with the fellow protagonist,Jennifer,  She voices her opinion very often within the group, which we wanted to involve as to have a character that would be frantically panicking within the scary situation of being followed by a malicious clown.

Lat year Nadiye played the main protagonist in our production very successfully, and again our group as a whole felt that Nadiye's skills very much suit the role of a protagonist and therefore we felt she would work best within her role as Molly.

Costume Research 1

For our trailer. We need to think about our muse en scene and what would be the most appropriate clothing and styling for both our protagonists and antagonist.

As the antagonist and also in humane character of our trailer our clown character stands as the most important costume styling we have to consider. Our actress Katy will be playing th role of the clown and in doing so instead of creating a clown makeup look we have decided a more effective and frightening approach would be to use a mask and therefore have purchased the following mask...

The pale white face, in contrast to the bright red hair,nose and lips shows that the character being as important as it is will definitely stand out perfectly whilst wearing this. 

We were considering to use an entire clown outfit even considering to purchase a full checkered black and white bodysuit to give off the impression of a once professional clown. But we believed for an outfit like this it would of had to of been a slightly different story line. But with what was occurring in the media we believed it would be a good idea to work with what was scaring people in everyday life, and with the clown scared happening across America and some areas of England. We though the best idea was to use a psychotic looking individual who wore normal everyday clothes but still fit to the character, so we used plain black jeans, a black hoodie and black trainers. We believe this would be worn as the clown would want to remain as inconspicuous as possible. 

Questionnaire results

        

Questionnaire

1)Who do you prefer seeing as an antagonist ?

A)Male              

B)Female

2)How often do you watch a film weekly ?

A)None at all

B)1-2 films

C)3-4 films

D)5+ films

3)What location do you find the most daunting?

A)House

B)Alleyway

C)Woods

D)Park

4) What was th last horror film you watched ? Did you enjoy it? If not,why?

                                                                                      

                                                                                      

                                                                                      

5) Do you think that it is important to see the antagonist of a film within it's trailer?

A)Yes 

B)No

6)What is your favourite horror film out of the following?..

A)IT

B)Paranormal Activity franchise

C)The exorcist 

D)Drag me to Hell franchise

E) Cabin in the woods

7)What genre do you prefer out of the following ? 

A)Horror

B)Action

C)Thriller

D)Romance

E)Comedy

8)What film title appeals to you the most?

A)"Jokes on you"

B)"Revenge"

C)"Karma"

D)"Joke"

9)What do you find the most scary out of the following ?

A)Ghosts

B) Super natural

C)Clowns

D)Serial killers 

10) Whodo you think will portray a protagonist the most effectively ?

A)Yoing girl

B)Teenage girl

C)Young boy

D)Teenage boy

E)Old lady

F)Old man

Age Certificating Research

With our trailer being of the horror genre, our group wanted the opportunity to have the freedom to use more intense scenes and imagery within our content, for example the use of fake blood and violence and with frightening images, with our leading antagonist being a clown, many younger audiences would find the character alone very disturbing, but to really create a professional horror film image, we want to have the intense and frightening scenes that would make this happen.

With this in mind the thought of having the age rating of a 12/12a seems like a less likely option due to the bbfc stating on their website that "No promotion of potentially dangerous behaviour which children are likely to copy. No glamorisation of realistic or easily accessible weapons such as knives. No endorsement of anti-social behaviour." which would make our horror an incredibly difficult task to fit into, as our horror being of slasher style and gorish instead of paranormal. The BBFC also state specifically that gore, violence and blood shouldn't be emphasised, and with our overall aim to emphasise and scare our audience make it extremely difficult to fit into this category.

Therefore our group are feeling extremely compelled to opt into having an age 15 certificate of our film's trailer, this is due to the BBFC stating under the threat section of the 15 certificate rating that "There may be strong threat and horror", which would make the scenes that our group want to film a lot easier to access and film without worry of being to much with gore under a 12 or 12a rating. Although it is specified that "Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury. The strongest gory images are unlikely to be acceptable", which our group may or may not decide to follow in theme, as we want to have the opportunity to use both paranormal and slasher style if we choose to,depending on the footage we get.

An age 18 certificate rating, This rating gives our group a a large amount of freedom to involve a lot of our footage that may not be acceptable for an age 15 or 12 rating, although we are given a lot of freedom to include almost anything, whether it be frightening or gory, Although we would have a major limit on who our viewing audience would be, as the major target audience for is young working class teens and adults, seeking thrilling fun, whereas older adults aren't as interested in being frightened.

In conclusion, our group is going to go for a an age 15 certificate rating in order to achieve a more realistic and professional looking horror trailer.

Inspiration for our Trailer

Our film trailer is very much focused on a slasher type of horror film, with our main antagonist being a psychotic killer clown, who follows three teenaged girls with cruel intentions. We took inspiration from certain style movies that really helped with the imagery and sense of plot.

Ouija: Origin of evil

The paranormal horror, Ouija the origin of evil, tells the story of a mother and her two daughters in 1965, who host faked séances as there main source of income, and in doing so allow genuine evil spirits into their home and into one of the children's souls.



The trailer for this film, effectively built tension and gradually became scarier, for certain scenes we would jump to a record player that we felt would fit 8nto our film's trailer, so therefore we also involved multiple shots of a record player in order to establish tension in our trailer. We believed that having this type of horror influence would bring a larger sense of paranormal to our trailer as we wanted to portray our antagonist clown as not in humane and put him at a higher capability of strength and power than our protagonists.

IT

The paranormal/slasher horror film, focuses on a group of adults who reminisce on the past, where they were tortured by a shapeshift6ing clown called pennywise.


We took inspiration from the clowns appearance with a white face and bright red afro like hair, which effectively stands off of the screen, we found that the clowns muse en scene through makeup was something our group definitely wanted to use similarity to as we believe it was a truly bold and frightening image that would effectively scare our audience. We also believed that through the fear of clowns being a largely popular phobia globally this type of fear factor would appeal to all ages.