Todorov's extended narrative story

1) Exposition- we are introduced to the main characters Lucas and Alex as they are children. We see their home that they live in, their parents, and their lifestyle

2) Development- Lucas goes missing at five years old when both brother and sister are playing hide and seek in the woods

3)Complication- Lucas comes back 13 years later with revenge on his mind, wanting to kill Alex

4) Climax- Lucas is not successful in his mission to kill his twin sister, she kills him instead

5) Alex survives as the final girl, she tries to block out what has happened. Eventually everything returns back to normal

We had to take more pictures for our horror poster task. Here are some of them.

Film synopsis- what our film is about

The film opens with a scene where a pair of twins (one boy, one girl) are cutting their 5th birthday cake as they celebrate their big cake. The brother is called Lucas, and the girl is Alex. No one knows this yet, but Lucas has been born with a severe case of multiple personality disorder, which can later be mistaken for schizophrenia. A few days later, as Lucas and Alex play in the woods… Lucas then goes mysteriously missing. As Alex screams for Lucas, he is nowhere to be seen. He unknowingly goes missing, thinking nobody cares about him. Thirteen years later, Lucas is back. Only to haunt his twin sister Alex, on none other than their 18th birthday. Lucas’s illness gets the better of him, as he tries to kill his own sister due to his multiple personality disorder. He thinks that she does not love or care for him, and he’s back for revenge this time. Despite his constant effort to kill Alex, he is unsuccessful. Alex survives, having killed her own brother in self defence. Alex is the final girl in the film, and follows the ‘final girl theory’ by Carol Clover.

Invitation to view trailer 2

Here is the second type of invitation we made. This one includes the mask of the villain on it.

Invitation to view trailer

This is the first type of invitation we made, showing the good character and/or the final girl.

Trailer viewing

We had a trailer viewing on Friday 12th February 2010. This was to show an audience our horror teaser trailer, magazine front cover, and horror film poster. We did this as we needed audience feedback of people who fit into our target audience. This was so that we could establish any improvements/changes or anything they liked in particular. We made invitations for our viewing and also questionnaires for the feedback.

Horror Film Poster

Magazine Front Cover

Ancillary tasks completed

Alongside our main task of creating the horror teaser trailer, we had to accompany it with two ancillary tasks. These consisted of making a magazine front cover and and a horror poster of our film.

We decided to split our media group in half, with two people working on the poster and the other two working on the magazine cover. Me and Sarah decided to work on the film magazine cover together. We followed and challenged conventions we saw from other 'Total Film' magazine cover that we had looked at. Once we completed the magazine, we were very proud of it as we thought it looked quite professional.

The other two people in our group (Kinnerey and Nahed) worked on the horror film poster together. They did this successfully, as it looked really good. It used conventions from other horror film posters we had looked at, still fitting in perfectly with the theme of our film.

Video editing completed

We finally finished editing our teaser trailer, about one and a half weeks ago. We had a continuous upbeat tune, which was scary at the same time. This was alongside a series of bangs to create tension and make the piece scarier altogether. I think our trailer was 60 seconds long, which is just the perfect length for a teaser trailer. When our trailer was completed, we handed it in for it to be rendered and saved finally. Once that was done, our next tasks were our ancillary tasks. This had to be designing of a film magazine cover and a horror film poster of our movie.