Mise-en-scene

·        In terms of location the main horror location which appears in nearly all horror trailers are a church, an old abandon house, woods, a dark alley. For part of our trailer some of these locations are going to be used in order to stay in concept that this is supposed to be a horror trailer. These locations are used to build climax as they already look creepy and spooky.

For colours, normally black and red are used in order to associate with a villain or hell. Mainly black is used so this is a colour that we are going to be using a lot in our trailer as it is part of the main conventions for a horror trailer.

Lighting is one type of mise-en-scene we are going to use in our horror. This is because low key usually create a sombre, mysterious as well as dramatic and moody atmosphere which is feeling that an audience is looking for when watching a horror trailer. Low- key scenes normally have a lot of contrast, as well as the primary impact which usually come from the shadows. This represents our genre which is horror as horror trailers our normally quiet mysterious and sombre where appropriate. This also builds tension as the audience is not able to see what is really happening yet. This is a good way of attracting our target audience when producing out trailer.  Shadows and unfamiliar shapes are also used which could use for our official trailer. This is because is most horror trailer weird object or shapes are used as well with a lot of shadows in order to build the suspense.

Make-up is also a tool that is going to be important when creating out horror trailer. A lot of make-up is normally used on the person that is supposed to be evil as it is the main villain character. Make-up is used to make a character look even scarier and supernatural which is one of the aspects of a horror film. For example scary black or white eyes, messed up face, hair messed up etc. We are going to be using make-up as part of a technique to attract our target audience as people might be interesting in seeing this special effects.

 Props is pretty simple as without them there wouldn`t really be a horror trailer. This is because in nearly all of horror trailer a specific object is either use to kill or is posed. For example the common weapons that are used to kill are: knifes chainsaw, cleaver, stake, and knife. The other props that are also seen are: masks, religious symbols and symbols of death which are the aspect of a horror trailer. Even though these are seen a lot we are going to try and reduce the aspect of the weapons as we do not want to make it to violent.

Some monsters are also seen in horror genre are usually: vampires, werewolves, mummies and zombies. We were thinking about including zombies in our trailer as there is not a lot of trailer based on them which could be a way of reducing the competition with other new trailers.