Script of horror trailer

Script

Horror Trailer

Roles:

New girl

Student #1: helper

Student #2: false hero/ Jock lazy guy

Student #3: promiscuous/ flirtatious girl

Scene one:

School:

•          Mid shot of the students getting of the bus.

•          Mid shot of the students entering the building.

•          Establishing shot of learner building.

•          Tone Card, "New School".

•          Shot of the girl 'new girl' entering the building walking past people/ students playing ping pong and the ball bounces off, obstructing her way and drawing attention to her arrival. 

•   Tone Card, "New Girl"

•   Close up shot of the new girl holding her books, showing her intelligence. 

Scene two:

Classroom: Dialogue 

•   Mid shot of the 'new girl' walking into class.

•   Point of view shot of the students used to look at the 'new teacher' as he enters the room.

•   Voice over "Hello I am Mr... Your new media teacher, This term we have to create a horror trailer and i have the perfect example from last year"  

•   Meanwhile the camera is focusing on a point of view shot establishing and giving the audience and insight to the characters personalities. 

Student #1 - Helper/Donor Sitting quietly in a corner preparing for lesson, Looking like an outcast.

Student #2 - False hero, Scrunching up paper and throwing it in a bin as the third student is trying to get his attention. 

Student #3 - Promiscuous girl that dies first, Wearing revealing clothing sitting on the desk trying to flirt with the second student.Or a student ask to see an example. 

•   Clips of a previous 'trailer' are shown, students straight away like this idea.

•   Tone Card, "Same Story"


Scene three:

Woods: Dialogue 

•   After the Tone Card "Same Story" The setting of the woods is introduced.

•   Long shot of media media students walking into the woods holding their props e.g. cameras, tripods etc. 

•   Comments from characters introducing their personalities 

•   Student #3 "I have no service in this stupid place"

•   As they are setting up - Student #3 "Im going to get service, this is boring" she then goes to find service alone.

•   Jump cuts of her walking.

•   High angle shot used to show the rest of the group when they hear a scream (setting up but they freeze as they hear her scream). 

•   Jump cut is then used to show the cause (the girl bleeding, on the floor) of the scream, The promiscuous girl has been killed , close ups of the blood on the camera and all around her. 

•   Student #2: False hero is shown "We need to get out of here"

•   New girl "We cannot leave her"

•   A montage of shots as they hear footsteps, They all panic.

•   Sequential shots of handheld camera, showing the students running.

•   Handheld camera from behind a tree, suggest someone is watching camera: New girl stops "We have to go back for her" Student #1: helper "We need to leave, its not safe"

Camera then turns off and the screen goes blank, leading to the title page.