Reasons for rethinking our synopsis

 We ran into a few issues while filming, the first and foremost being that the forest was much darker than we expected it to be, due to this we did not have the proper lighting equipment meaning that the actors and the scene itself were not seen on camera. Another issue was that we wanted to capture the natural ambient sounds of the forest, but the sound equipment we used was not sensitive enough. A third issue we had was that the weather was not in our favor, the temperature was far to cold to film outdoors for prolonged amounts of time. A combination of these technical and natural issues lead to us rethinking our trailer idea and thus lead to us creating a new synopsis which can be seen below.

Scenes and location

The location we used was the house and back garden of one of our group members. This was a good location as the garden was large and had an accessible area behind it that looked like a forest and it had a large amount of space to film. This suited our purpose as our story involved a group group of friends going into a forest for a weekend of camping. The isolation of being in a dark and dangerous place alone fits well within the conventions of horror.

The house was also suitable as the front of it looked dilapidated and old. This also fits in with the story as the group of friends find an old abandoned house and go to it to seek shelter. It is typical convention within a horror movie to have an abandoned house. This could be because the mystery that that surrounds a old and abandoned house fits well with the genre of horror.

Props used within our trailer.

We used various props within our trailer such as; Halloween make up,chewing gum as fake wounds large work boots and fake blood. We were fortunate that the time period that we started filming was also halloween so shops were selling things like fake blood and halloween make up which they would not sell normally and they were also being sold at a cheaper price than usual. These props helped add to the mise en scene of the trailer and they could also signify things. For example blood could represent death,danger or injury. One of our ideas was to have a close up of the large work boots of the killer as he quietly stalks his victims, the large boots signified a large destructive force heading towards the victims and the fact that we didn't show his face would have made the killer mysterious which is a common convention in horror movies.