Names of the characters

Below is the names of all the characters in the trailer, all of them may not be relevant for the trailer but it will be sensible to have them in case we change the dialogue to include them

Main Character - Greg Donaldson

Weather Girl - Tracy Courage

News Reporter - Ted Hutton

Victims Mother - Rosie Lock

Victim - Maddie Lock

Policeman 1 - Matt Ratcliffe

Policeman 2 - Sid Selfe

Real Killer - Slenderman

Background Story

Behind our trailer is a deep story line, with the USP of including the mythical beast Slenderman.

The story begins with amateur reporter Greg Donaldson, looking for a story to help him to make it into the big time. Then the story falls at his doorstep, several murders in his home county of Surrey. However there is something different with this case. Some people have likened the killings to those of the mythical Slenderman, a mysterious humanoid who may or may not have mythical powers of some kind. After interviewing some of the victims families, he becomes a suspect to the police due to bad timing and a strange interest in the case. The story climaxes when police try to arrest Greg on suspicion of several of the murders, he escapes and trys to run. After being watched silently by the real killer he thinks he knows who he is, his escape leads into the local woods, after this everyone who entered isn't seen again.

Slenderman Costume

We have decieded to change the costume idea for our Slenderman, instead of having an all white morph suit we have decieded to change it to all all black suit. Doing this has helped keep our minimal budget low as a white morph suit costs around £34 whereas a black one costs £10. Allowing us to reinvest this part of the budget in other areas.

Design of killer

For our killer we have based him on the real life legend of Slender man, here is a sketch of what I think he should look like

 

 

 

Possible Film Names

We haven't yet come up with a film title yet, so we thought that we should brainstorm some and choose our favourate names out of this selection. Below are the results of our brainstorm.

My top 3 Favourate names are:

Faded Delusion
Figmentation
Waiting for Sorrow

We also decieded to ask the target market what their favourate names were, we ask 30 people from the 18-30 age range and the top names came out as:

Awaken the Myth
Standing Quietly
Wrong Shadows
Faded Delusion
Silent Myth
Never Wait

Combining these results I believe that the Top 2 Names are:

Faded Delusion
Awaken the Myth




In Conclusion I have chosen to use Faded Delusion. I have gone for this name as I think as a general Horror name it is quite likeable,but I mainly chose it as it links in with the film idea. The idea that the real killer is only known by the accused killer, makes it seem as if its his Delusion and the real killer is mysterious and isn't usually seen and just lurks, this is where the Faded part comes into the title.

Film Treatment

The Idea for our film is to create a Horror Thriller about a real life myth called the Slender-man, there are several different names to this creature throughout history such as Der Ritter, Him or The Tall Man. The film will be called Faded Delusion. I like this name for our film as it adds mystery to the story and works well as the only person who will know about the Slender-man being the killer will be the main character hence the 'Delusion' part of the name.

The film will include the main character being pinned by the police for being the killer but he won't actually be and he will then start his own investigation into who is doing the killings. He will then discover that it is the mysterious Slender-man but won't know his true powers, towards the end of the film he will realise that the Slender-man is in fact slowly getting closer to him when he sees him, starting the desperate run at the end trying to escape him while being pinned for the other murders. Ending in a chase where the main character is running from the police, but is never seen again. At the end will be the best shot of the Slender-man in the distance, in the dark just standing still, then it will fade to black. The main USP of this film is the Slender-man being the killer, as some people will know of Slender-man and want to watch the film because of this, but then also the fact that he is so mysterious would also appeal to certain fans of Horror films. 

Possible Shot?

 

 

I was walking home one night and I noticed that from an angle that the signpost and black gate look like slender man, which is highlighted in the picture on the right. I thought in some way we could possibly use this shot within the film.

Movie Idea

For our movie trailer, I have come up with the possiblity of creating it around around the legend of Slender man, Slender man is a very mysteriuous charcter that has been connected with other mythical creatures such as Der Ritter and the White King. He is a faceless charcter that lurks in the distance stalking a person until finally he abudcts them, no-one nows why or how but this is one of the things that make him scary. If we were to do this idea then I would suggest sticking to the minimalistic roots as this will help keep it scary.