Filming update 3

We have re filmed the sections in the park to make them more affective, after realising what we had filmed before was not any good. We have a few effective shots of first person attacks on me and my friend Rathe; a few generic shots of jumping out of bushes and chases. We thought these would be effective for a trailer as they don't really give anything away about the storyline, but are intense and will raise the questions and interest about how the characters have got into these situations. I have also filmed a longer section of my trailer in my girlfriend Chalice Bartholomew's house, with her acting. I've got a first person perspective of someone walking into her bedroom, while she is asleep. The camera looks around, then leans in over her. She jolts awake , realises that nothing is there, then lays back down. Then, suddenly she is rapidly dragged away, out of shot. I was thinking of putting this at the beginning of the trailer, as it will draw viewers in because it is very intriguing.

My view on my story

Complete story for film

Andy, Rich, Simone and her younger brother Ben are a group of close friends that all live on the same road in a small British town. While doing a project for their History class, where they are learning about the town's local history, they stumble across the revelation that one every 50 years all the teenagers that live in their road are brutally murdered under unusual circumstances, but it is then hastily covered up. The next day Simone is found brutally murdered in her bedroom, hung by her feet from the ceiling. We then discover that she had been complaining of strange nightmares that encompassing her worst fears for the past few days. This scares Andy and Rich, as they both have similar nightmares that night. They decide to stay with friends for a few days, to escape the "cursed road". However, they find out when they return that Ben has also been killed in a grotesque manner. Not wanting to just try and run away from this nightmare creature, Rich decides to make a stand, while Andy moves out of his house. Rich desperately tries to defend himself, but once again Rich is discovered in his bedroom torn to shred, as if birds had feasted on his organs. Feeling horrifically guilty for abandoning his best friend to fight the nighmares alone, Andy asks his new flat mates to help him destroy the monster stalking him. They return to the road, and Andy falls asleep while the others stay awake. Suddenly Andy's dream seems to become reality, and the boys fight for their lives to survive. However, it is then revealed that Andy has actually trapped the nightmare creature within a dream of his own creation, in the classis "this is my mind and only I control it" way that has been used in one form or another before. The nightmare is consequently defeated, and peace returns to the street.

Filming update 2

I've have completed some preliminary shots that I'm happy to use in my trailer, below is a few that I have not yet edited. At the moment I'm concentrating on shots from the creature/ nightmare perspective; as I was filming I thought that maybe I should only concentrate on these types of shots, rather than from the victim as well, as it would make the trailer more mysterious, and the viewer would be uncertain of what is happening to these people. It's early days though, so I'm trying to keep my mind open for ideas that differ from my original storyboard.