Genre Research and Pitch Idea Draft

Horror

• On our first group meeting, my group and I had thought about the easiest genre for our coursework trailer. We thought that horror would be the easiest to do and we started to think about different plot lines for the horror film/trailer. 
• Since it's a horror, we decided that we would do something about dolls and since I speak Polish we thought it would be more terrifying to hear the doll speak a foreign language and at the same time it would be our USP to attract a wider range of audience.

          Codes and Conventions:

• Death and blood
• Tension building, upbeat and instrumental music to indicate danger and manipulate the audience's feelings.
• Personal, deadly weapons
• Ghosts/spirits/demons
• Killer
• Isolated location
• Dark and scary atmosphere
• Beyond human abilities and unbelievable things and props
• Loads of close ups and eye line matches to show character's reactions to what is happening
• Dramatic camera angles
• There is always a protagonist that survives at the end and this is always the good and most innocent person in the group.

          Pitch Idea:

• A woman moves to England from Poland. When she gets to her new home from the airport and starts unpacking she notices a doll on a shelf. Her home is isolated and empty with nothing in there except for the doll. After she settles in she finds work through her friends that she already had in London. As the protagonist lives by herself, she starts to engage in a strange friendship with the doll she found in her house. She starts talking to the doll and soon it becomes very serious as she becomes isolated from the rest of the world - not going to work and cutting off her friends and family. The protagonist then goes missing and strange things start to happen with the doll left in the house who supposedly is a killer doll

         Working title of the film: Foreign Doll


The ideas my group and I have came up with were inspired mainly by Chucky: Child's Play, The Conjuring and Annabelle. Those 3 films also are about a killer dolls which is fairly easy to imitate. We thought this would be a good concept for our trailer as talking dolls are considered very creepy by most people and therefore it would be easier to ensure that our trailer is actually scary and contains codes and conventions of horror.