The document discusses planning for a horror/thriller film trailer from two potential concepts: 1) about a demonically possessed innocent girl or 2) from the killer's point of view, showing why he kills. It outlines character ideas, potential actors, locations, costumes, props, and a narrative for the trailer where an innocent girl is possessed after entering an abandoned church, leading her to blackouts and killing her family and friends until she takes her own life or is killed by the demon.

1. Planning My Text
• Horror/Thriller film trailer

2. • A horror/thriller film trailer on the lines of Pandora's box or a
special object, which links to demonic possession of a character.
The main character being an innocent girl; a conventional character
for horror/thriller films. This was the least popular option from the
survey, but we may include some parts of this idea.
OR…
• Or a horror/thriller film trailer in the killer's point of view, his
perspective of why he's a killer, you see everything the way he sees
it. The killer would be the hero and the villain, the victim of
possession. This is unconventional of horror/thriller films and so
makes the trailer different and more exciting for the audience.
First Ideas

3. 1. Innocent girl walking her dog, her dog wonders into the church yard.
2. The dog disappears around a corner, she hears a creaking inside the
church that makes her investigate inside.
3. A shadow/ cloaked figure moves down the side of the wall and
disappears.
4. Girl calls out but no answer.
5. Shadow/figure possesses her (use cuts to black, like in Cloverfield film
trailer).
6. Starts going mad (shown in black and white and using mirror effects)
and is unaware of this state. She can’t remember when normal.
7. She starts killing family (not necessarily shown in trailer).
8. Starts to realise (using flashbacks), she sets up a hand held camera to
record what’s happening.
9. Seeks help to fight demon
10. Realises she can’t and kills herself (left as a mystery, if it was her or
the demon inside her?)
Narrative Ideas

4. • In Her Eyes
• Through Her Eyes
• Point Of View
• Perspective
We need a title that gives away the idea of a killer’s point
of view; so these title ideas portray this. It’s also
unconventional to do this in a horror film and will
therefore attract more of an audience.
Title Ideas

5. 1. Innocent Girl (the main character) - The Villain and the hero, the
victim of possession (name: Madeleine Blackwell).
Actress: Anna Self
1. Sister/friend- Amy Blackwell, acts as the helper/friend (props
theory), is killed by Madeleine.
Actress: me
1. Nerdy Character?/Friend (male)- Also acts as the helper or friend,
helps Madeleine to figure out what’s happening to her.
Actor: ???
Characters

6. Anna Self- Madeleine
Zoe Self- Amy
Actors

7. • Church (In Burnett)- where demon possesses Madeleine. A setting
the audience can relate to and is an iconic location associated with
fear.
• Ellie’s house (big and in rural area)- where family deaths occur (not
necessarily shown), Madeleine and Amy’s home.
• Surrounding woods- where she could wake up from a killing, with
blood down her front, or a chase.
• An urban setting, Bristol Cabot Circus (somewhere with
houses, roads and people)- normality, to make it relatable and real.
More interesting as there’s a wider range of settings.
• School- scene where Madeleine is with friends, goes crazy.
Locations/Settings

8. Wellsway School
Cabot Circus, Bristol
Locations

9. Our local woods
Ellie’s house
Locations

10. Locations The church, Burnett

11. • Simple, everyday wear (jeans and T-shirts), relevant for context.
Makes it look real and believable which our research has shown
to be important to horror/thriller and also conventional.
• Props including something iconic, such as a piece of
clothing, knife or a scar. An object which the audience can
associate with, which makes it recognisable to be a horror.
Costumes And Props

12. Title
Props
Final Ideas (to be decided)
Depends on what happens when filming, what we
think will look best.

13. After chasing her dog into a church she should never have gone
into, Madeleine Blackwell’s life takes a turn for the strange. She
starts having blackouts and terrifying, vivid nightmares that may not
be nightmares at all.
Madeleine is lured into a church after her dog disappears, it’s the
place where the mysterious shadow will possess her. As her frenzies
begin, she has no memory of what happens when they finish. She
ends up destroying her family and friends. Her sister keeps her
secret, but when things get out of hand it ends up destroying her too.
Her closest friend attempts to help as she begins to develop a memory
of what’s happening in her states of madness. When the penny drops
and she can’t fight it any more, she takes her own life… Or did the
demon inside her?
Final Narrative