Porce-lyn Story Board

Script for Horror trialer- Porce-lyn

Outside building

IN SCHOOL- Day

FADE IN THROUGH BLACK

Three students around the same table at lunchtime, eating individual lunches.

Inside classroom, Zooms to group of friends

PERSON A

I heard about this “haunted” hospital at Barrow Gurney, I heard that there was a patient that was never found when it was closed down for negligence, she still walks the hospital.

Shot of outside the hospital

PERSON B

Yeh I heard that story but as if its true, she was a serial killer, during a daily treatments some chemicals spilt on her face, from then on she only wore a mask. Its just a story to scare you when you were little. Her name was Lyn before she was disfigured, after she was known as Porce-Lyn

Closer shot of the hospital

PERSON C (Smug look on face)

You two might have been scared by it, but I’m a man you see.

PERSON A+B LAUGH

PERSON C

Alright alright if you’re so hard lets go after school.

PERSON A+B

Deal!

Bell rings

Pick up bags

FADE OUT THROUGH BLACK

ESTABLISHING SHOT, LOOKING AT HOSPITAL

PERSON A

Lets have a picture to prove we actually did it.

PERSON A+B+C

3-2-1 CHEESE

SCREEN FLASH LIKE CAMERA

Picture freezes on screen

Mask in background in window

Slowly zooms into mask.

PERSON C

Go on then I dare you to go inside.

PERSON A

You first then “bigshot”

PERSON B

Lets all go together

ENTER BUILDING TOGETHER

LAUGHING AND JOKING

Fade through black (laughing carries on)

NOISE

PERSON A+B TURN AROUND

PERSON A+B

 Person C?!

PERSON A+B LOOK AT EACH OTEHR

LOUD SCREAM (HELP!)

                                                                                         PERSON A

                                                                                         PESON C?!!

Run into same room

See PERSON C hanging 

Look down, see message in blood –“RUN!”

PERSON A+B running to exit

Cameraman runs behind

Doors slam shut

Go to different room

Person B +A heavy breathing

Trying to escape out the locked window

Person A

Hurry up! Lets leave it!!

The mask appears in reflection behind shoulder.

Fade through

Horror Trailer Initial Idea

·         Mental Hospital- Barrow Gurney.

·         Haunted by ex patient, miss treated during their stay.

·         Were in solitary confinement

·         Murderer mentally unstable.

·         Women murderer going against stereotype. Male following conventions of horror trailer.

·         Face was disfigured from chemical treatment gone wrong.

·         Always wore a mask from then on. Doll mask preferably. Never spoke.

·         Start with flashback of chemical incident, then go forward to 2012 Mental hospital shut down for negligence.

·         All patients moved to  separate hospital but one was never found.

·         Friends dare each other to go in to abandoned hospital, small group 2-3.

·         Various rooms- Noose, message in blood/red paint, chair in middle room.

·         Loud scream from one room, door slams and locks. Film legs dangling and swaying, friend thinks he has been hanged runs out.

·         Running cant find exit/ exit doors slam.

·         Goes to a window to try and get out, masked figure in reflection, turns round not there.

Film Poster Research

This is an effective film poster because you get a sense of what the story will entail. The women is going to be haunted by a masked character. The lighting is really simple but effective; it makes the presence of the women obvious. Then you see the masked character in the darkness behind which sets your imagination off as to what is going to happen next. It creates an ominous scene that would be eye catching to a horror audience. The key for a film poster like this is to make the audience want to see what is going to happen to the women and how the masked character got in to a comfortable homely setting.

The writing at the top of the page is typical of a horror film it goes against what we normally think when we are scared or frightened, telling us we shouldn't fear things and not ignore the unexpected. A clever slogan that we should look to include in our poster. The font of “the strangers” looks effective because it has a distorted look and ties in with the lighting from the lamp well.

This poster uses an obvious marketing technique and that is Daniel Radcliffe but aside from that it is quite a good poster. The greeney blue filter colour they have used makes it look supernatural and mysterious but also gives the image a lot of contrast which is effective because of the horror genre. We could use a, high contrast image and a filter to give it a spooky effect like this one. Having the black figure behind him makes him look like he is being haunted. It tells the audience that this mysterious “Women in Black” figure is going to play a big part. The haunted house is also effective as it sets the scene but here is also something ominous about a grave yard and a mysterious looking tree. The way the light shines across his face and the moody expression makes him look like a hero; it is trying to attract the majority of the Harry Potter audience, teenage girls who love the main characters. The bright distorted lighting ties in with the Gothic setting and makes it stand out.

This poster uses a scary scene with a blue filter to attract your attention, as well as the title and captions in the bottom half in bold lettering. The picture of the lady pointing at the shadow on the door makes the audience think that they are being haunted by a ghost. It is a wide shot to reveal the whole room and make the audience think that they could be attacked from any angle, quite a clever shot to include on a poster. The scene looks very jumpy and this would attract a horror audience who liked to be spooked and scared. “What happens when you sleep” applies to the image making the audience inquisitive about what happens at night in this scene and film. “Don’t see it alone” makes a horror audience want to go see it with friends and find out what it is all about. The review comments at the top of the page are a great marketing technique; we could use this and make some up if we were allowed.

The layout of the poster is very simple but effective, if it was complicated it wouldn't stand out, there is a balance between messy and too simplistic that we need to find. The home made video technique is clever it adds realism to the scene and adds to the scary affect.