Audience Research - Storyboards

Today we designed our storyboards of what our teaser trailer would contain. As this is a rough draft it may change. To fit the conventions of a teaser trailer, we needed to keep this storyboard mysterious and not giving away too much narrative. The first shot is three students pulling up in a car, ready to move into their new house. They look happy and excited to be moving in together. The next shot is a blackout with text appering saying 'The Best Of Friends' in a white block font to make the text eye catching and noticable. The next shot cuts back to the students at a long shot, shoing the students getting out of the car, collecting their bags and seeing the house in front of them. Again we see another black out with text saying 'Never Knew', again in the same font to keep it recognizable. At every black out a loud boom noise is heard to get the audiences attention and to fit the thriller genre with intentions to scare.

The next shot is a long shot of the house and the students walking in, we only see their backs as this shows that they are alone and the only ones entering the house. Following this shot is another blackout with the boom noise, the text appears saying 'How Much', again same font. The break up of the sentence we are using for each blackout makes the audience want to see the trailer and know what is going on and what the text is going to say, building suspence. The next shot is to the upstairs window, we see a girl in a white robe staring out of the window at the students. this indicates that she is waiting for them to come in making the film scary.

The next blackout with the loud boom again displays text saying 'They needed eachother', this shows that the students are in danger and need to rely on eachother to survive. This isnt giving away too much narrative however it is indicating that they are in danger and something bad is going to happen.

The last shot is another blackout again with the audio, saying our film title, which we have yet to think of and then fading up is the date, 'Summer 2011', this is keeping to the conventions of teaser trailers as we are not giving a specific date to keep the audience waiting for the film to come out.

Overall i think our teaser trailer will fit the conventions, wiht the length, lack of narrative and the blackouts.