After completing the film synopsis for our trailer, we asked a couple of people what their thoughts about the synopsis were. after receiving feedback we realised that there were sections of the story line that did not make sense and that were not meeting the conventions of a thriller film. Because of this we decided to re-think the story line and made a few changes. One main change that we made was the fact that we removed a character. Rather than having two people in search for the missing girl, we decided to have just one looking for her. we also changed location from multiple destinations to simply basing the clues found in a large wooded area. we felt that this would work better for the scene of a thriller film and add more mystery to the trailer. when filming the trailer we plan to film within the woods during the day so that the characters within our trailer will be seen clearly and the filming will be clear and visible.
The New Film Synopsis:
Two friends arrange
to meet
up (Frankie & Brooke). One of them turn up (Frankie). But the second does
not (Brooke). She
wait for
her.
An hour passes so she try’s to contact her but cannot. Frankie
starts to
worry. She
travels to
Brooke’s
house. She is not there either. Her parents have not seen her all day. She has
run away before so they are not as concerned. Frankie go’s back to where they
arranged to meet to check she wasn't running late. She finds a phone ringing on
the floor. It’s Brooke’s. Her concern grows. She goes to the police and reports
Brooke's disappearance. Police cannot do anything until after 24 hours and with
no evidence. Frankie looks through Brooke’s phone. She
finds a
text that mentions a specific location within the woods that they are both
familiar with. She arrives at the area within the woods and
find dirt marks that look like someone has been dragged away. This
gives Frankie an idea of where to start looking for Brooke.
Whilst following this trail she finds a bracelet on the floor. It’s Brooke’s.
She continues looking within the woods. She also finds a scarf that belongs to Brooke
stuck in a tree. At
this point she has a feeling that Brooke is trying to leave her clues so that
she can find her. Eventually Frankie comes across a small house in the middle of the woods. She
sees a man take Brooke
inside
the house. Frankie finds an
open window and sneaks
into
the house. She
searches for
Brooke. Whilst looking around there are moments where the Frankie nearly
gets caught
by the
man that is
in the house. She
finds a
locked door.
By looking through the
keyhole
of the door Frankie sees Brooke
tied to a chair. She
then searches for
the key to the door. The
kidnapper is
sitting on the sofa watching telly. Frankie sees a key on the table next to
him and she thinks it’s the key for the locked door. The key
for the door is on a table next to him. Frankie then sneaks up behind the
sofa to reach the key. Tension builds because Frankie is so close to being
caught and the man looks suspicious. She manages to reach for the key. With
the key she goes
back to the
locked
room and opens
the
door. The girl in the room is not Brooke. It is another girl that has the same
hair and eye colour and looks exactly like Brooke. Frankie
helps this girls and then goes to open
another door. She
realise's that
there are multiple girls that all look the same being held hostage in this
house. After searching in four different rooms she eventually finds Brooke.
There is then a load noise as the man realises that the keys are gone. Frankie
hurry's to
free Brooke. They hear footsteps heading towards the room. Brooke sits back
down and acts like she's still tied up whilst Frankie hides in
the room. The man enters the room to checks all the girls using a spear key.
He checks
the room and then leaves again locking the door behind him. The two girls
escape out the window of the room they are locked in. Throughout the time
searching for Brooke within the house, Frankie was filming on her phone. This
footage shows all of the other girls trapped in the house. Frankie
and Brooke take
this
footage to the police to get help for all of the other girls trapped in the
house. The police investigate, free the other girls and arrest the
man for
his
crimes.
This is a nice happy ending to your film. Look at how you are going to convey the a) search for Brooke which must take some time if the film is going to take the average 2 hours b) how the girls are not noticed as missing and c) judge the effectiveness of the building of the tension in the trailer to make it interesting. All of these things are vital to the trailer.
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