Moodboard

Above is our mood-board which is a combination of pictures all influenced from our initial ideas. We have incorporated the majority of these initial ideas into our trailer in order to create the eerie and sinister atmosphere that you would stereo-typically expect from a horror. The mood-board shows multiple ideas that we had, firstly beginning with the age themes. We felt as if age was an important thing to consider in a horror and also to consider the different effects the aged characters would have. To be able to meet these expectations, we incorporated both a young girl and an old women for effect, to contrast the two characters and to follow (and subvert -  in some cases) the typical representations of them. The elderly women appears as a threat and quite an eerie character in her clothing and through her general appearance throughout. The young girl, however, is represented to be quite innocent and vulnerable... typically subverting stereotypes of young girls in a horror as they tend to be presented as some sort of curse or evil child.

The majority of the images in our mood-board are filtered and quite dim lighted and few are even black and white. This was intentional as this is the kind of effect/lighting that we will be incorporating in our trailer - and also is something you would expect in a horror. This kind of colour and lighting again create the kind of eerie and sinister atmosphere that we want, which we hope to be effective in our trailer.

Few of the images above also show the location that we intended to use in our trailer, As clear through the pictures that we gathered, the main idea was in a house/bedroom which we did end up doing. This specific choice of location was influence through multiple other films... such as The Conjuring, The Orphanage, Paranormal Activity, Insidious and many more. The main influence of this idea was the feel of combined spaces - creating that enclosed, eerie atmosphere and the idea that there is no-where to go or escape to. Also, when thinking of being at home or in a house, you would immediately think of safety and security however this idea subverts that when the house becomes supposedly haunted with this elderly character. Another initial idea, that related to this was filming at night or in the dark, which would typically be expected when in a bedroom (alike our trailer).

This mood-board is simply an overview of our initial ideas and the majority of which we will/have already incorporated into our trailer. To be able to make our horror trailer most effective, we have followed the conventions of a horror which will hopefully entice the audience.