Pre-Lim Music Video

Idea for my cousework

I would like to create a horror movie trailer based on the recent clown craze. This character could be a female, subverting gender roles as the majority of horror movie serial killers are male. A plot idea I has was having a group of people camping in the woods while a clown is also in the woods with them. This would create a sense of entrapment. The location of a woods is a convention of horror movies as there is a general feeling of mystery. An issue with my idea is safety when filming due to the fact that one of my actors will be dressed as a clown and with this recent 'plague of clowns', wearing a clown costume would worry members of the public and draw negative attention. In addition to this, the majority of my shots will be filmed at night as this is a more effective setting for a horror movie. I will research horror movie trailers to discover what conventions they contain so I can therefore, implement it into my trailer. A style model I will consider using is the trailer for 'It' as that is a horror movie about a clown as well. I will work alone for this task and will ask my friends to participate as actors. I have thought of some titles for my film- 'Giggle' and 'Chuckle'.

I have an idea for some shots such as an actor resting against a wall/boulder, clearly out of breath. The camera will pan around this actor as they are breathing heavily for about 5 seconds, building tension. A clown's gloved hand will then quickly reach around the boulder/wall and grab their mouth in a sort-of jump scare. I found a youtube video which compiled every mention of these 'clown sightings' in the news so I could use a small aspect of the video to represent that the serial killer is participating in this. Another idea I had was having my serial killer looking into a bathroom mirror with the camera circling the actor. The lights will flicker and they will be dressed as a clown, then the lights will flicker again and they will be back to normal, the lights will flicker a final time and they will be a clown again.

Music Video Pre-lim Task-Editing

Today we edited our music video together with the programme 'iMovie'. This is a simple but useful way of editing clips. We first uploaded all of our shots and then chose the ones that we believed were most effective and relevant. The song 'Problem' was downloaded and became the only noise in the video as we muted the clips. Making the song line up with the lip-syncing and clapping was a challenge but eventually, after cutting some clips, it was successful. We used a black and white filter for our clips to create a intimate atmosphere.