Treatment

Satan’s Mistress

The genre we will be part of once the final production is made is Horror; the sub-genre that our teaser trailer will conform to is supernatural. The supernatural genre has an opening slot, with films such as: Final destination, The Omen, The Haunting in Connecticut. The format of the teaser trailer will be a short film which will be 30-59 seconds long, for added impact we will have a range of different shots, which will be quick and short, to dramatise the horror of the trailer.

The content of the film will be about an estranged, divorcee secondary school teacher who has a unity with the devil.  Her dislike for males is evident when scenes of her torturing a young male is predominate throughout the trailer. The constant juxtaposition of good and evil is shown through the use of bibles and symbolic use of Christian elements will be used in the trailer to show her pact with the devil. The contrast of good and evil will also be shown, by using a young boy to connote innocence and the evil of the teacher will be portrayed by her costume and make up, alongside the crucifix’s and the bibles that will be used in a non religious way by the teacher.

We will use a HD camera to film the teaser trailer and also use a Canon E05 450DDigital SLR Camera to take the raw images for our magazine and posters.  We will also use out skills in Photoshop to edit these raw images.

 The intended audience of our teaser trailer will be 16-25 year olds, with the output of horror movies dipping in the 80’s and 90’s the gap for horror movies other that slashers had been left open, which allowed for movies which both sexes will enjoy to be made such as fantasy horrors and supernatural  movies. Therefore the intended audience will be for both male and females.

The idea of making a film which would scare people startled us at the beginning, however the idea of having something which could happen in reality, was the core of our idea. The conclusion we came up with was to have the main set being something which people will feel comfortable in, the idea of the filming being in a school/college was the main focus, as people should feel safe there, and the idea of a demonic teacher in a catholic school was a rationale interpretation.

All of the characters which will be staring in the film will be from our own production team, so there will be no trouble finding actors. The feasibility of the teaser trailer is possible as there are no dramatic stunts which have to be shot and there are no outrageous effects we have to make. The whole teaser trailer should therefore be a success.