Story Board

By Lauren Fitzsimons and Gaby Skingle

This is the start of the trailer and could start by having a voice over maybe ‘a ancient doll who's seen generations of ancestors ..’

Old pictures of a little girl with a doll can be flashed to here using a sepia effect on pictures and the camera with a old flicking effect.

From the directors of

Here a insert of ‘from the directors of’ this is another professional thing I have noticed while looking and researching trailers.

Establishing shot of the bus stop, group of teenagers will walk to the bus stop and find a doll there which has been abandoned. This scene will take place in the day.

A close up of the doll is shown where the doll may have cracks to the face and other signs of abuse and mistreatment. The teenagers will pick the doll up and leave it in a friends house to play a joke on the other friend. When doll is shown eerry music will be played to create a negative tone.

Another establishing shot is shown of the outside of a house this will show that the teenagers have taken the doll home – it will skip from the previous scene at the bus stop to the setting of the home where we will see the teenagers enter the house.

A view shot will be used here after the close up of the dolls face. The view shot will be from the doll and will be taken in the style of CCTV like the doll is watching the home. Transitions and effects will be static interrupting the CCTV image.

A shot of the doll on the bed will be shown now the colour design of the frame will fade out so the colours are duller and less vibrant. Sound effects will include of children laughing faintly and the sound of a faint ice cream van.

The doll will turn evil when the lights go out – one single light will illuminate the face and laughing will be played again. Make up will be applied to the doll for example cracks and dirt - chips to the face may be used.

Inspiration : thirteen advert for Alton towers. The doll will appear to move forward by the movements being blocked by black inserts. Movements will come towards the camera. This will consist of short takes and will only last a few seconds. Old film type effects

The doll will come close to the camera but will appear cracked this will then move to extreme close ups of features but will have a flashing effect with a camera clicking sound effect in between this white inserts will be added.

The camera will zoom into the cracks of the doll and a eye will appear for a second then a insert then will move and another insert will appear.

When the girl wakes up she will be placed in a maids costume like she is a slave to the doll now.

A wide shot of the room is shown and the girl is doing weird jolty movements she is dirty and hair is messy. The same short take of different positions of her body are shown inserted by white inserts. Dramatic jumpy music will be played.

Here instead of black inserts I think that levitation stills could be added and black inserts could be used.

Sound effect would be the sound of clapping hands then the body would drop to normal position again.

A dramatic flash to a black insert will appear now accompanied by the sound of dramatic music loud and then stopping.

Out September 13

This will end the trailer with a release date.

At the beginning of the trailer this insert of a real warning of viewing will be used to make the trailer seem more professional.

Other features to make it seem professional will be the companies or producers name. Sound effects will start here and will be the sound of flickering like a old cinema studio.

Before the trailer starts there will be a background history section given this one above is a example but I’m thinking of a derelict mental asylum building – it will; be derelict because of use of meth within the institution. Sound effects of film rolling here would be effective.

A news report will be inserted saying that reports have been found on the derelict mental home after it was looked into because of sightings – witnesses has described the sighting as a meth head who thinks he’s the jokers son.

After the meth outbreak it was shut down - no one ever escaped the mental hospital but one man.

News clips of clips from old people in care home is shown along with mental hospital clips – only for a brief time – retro clips.

In march 2013 a group of 3 teenagers decide to camp on the site for footage for their supernatural blog. This will be text based and will have music inserted over the top of it.

An establishing shot of a mental hospital will be shown here then a camera pan will be going around to show a tent. The atmosphere will be moody and spooky with weather being dark and nearly raining.

This is another element I would like to add in which is the production logo it adds a professional edge while slowing the action down and up again.

Another establishing shot f the teenagers camping on the site will be shown – they will be looking carefree and happy as well as unaware.

This over the shoulder shot will be showing one of the teenagers filming and one recording and talking about the news report for their blog.

This black inset will signal the sign for change where the trailer goes from the traditional horror being happy until something changes.

Sound effects : a bang in the distance the camera starts to shake and a static effect is used. There is a black insert inserted.

Screaming sound effects will be added and talk of one of the teenagers missing .

The words of ‘the footage has never been found until now’

A insert of a close up of the jokers face is shown then the camera is dropped and went black.

One of the teenagers is found with a Glasgow smile and dead. This will take placea as a over head shot to see the whole of the body laid out.

A visual write up of a 999 call is shown as well as the audio over the top. Other sound effects could be screaming or the sound of sirens.

Camera will flicker on the image in-between black inserts with dramatic music like a glorifying music getting louder and more intense.

These shots of the dead body will be in a crime scene investigation type theme with the close ups of the body shown sounds effects will be the clicking of a camera and in-between these shots there will be white inserts to create a camera effect.

Close ups of the dead body will be shown as explained in the last picture.

This is a picture of a eye in the trailer this will be a close up on the hand held camera this will be accompanied by the sound of gasping breath and silence. This is where the action starts to subside until picking back up again.

Black insert in here along with sound effect of a scream.

Carrying on with the crime scene theme the close up of the jokers work is shown.

This is a extreme close up of the jokers eye his eye will signal the end of the trailer.

At the end of the trailer there is a title that says the films name this will swap to another screen which says the release date these are other professional ideas I thought are effective.

Idea 2

• Teenagers go camping for a holiday where they experiment with drugs while out in the forest / woods a meth head has escaped from a local mental hospital decades ago and is the only one to do so now hospital has been knocked down. who thinks he’s the Joker’s son thinks the teenagers are a rival drug distributors he then takes them one by one carving a Glasgow smile into their faces leaving them dead – all of this filmed in a jeopardy type way with hand held cameras. With the footage ‘never been found … until now’ ‘its not the dead we should fear’ extracts from the 999 call like the devil inside ‘some people are just born mad’