Film plot

17/04/2001-24/04/2001- A series of murders took place in Preston, all 14 people were brutally killed by Viktorr Thistle. He lived in Amounderness house, which used to be used as a court building, after the death of his wife and children, this led him to lose sanity within his own home. People believed he murdered out of vengeance for his family, and all the people murdered were criminals, that he believed were "guilty" of some crime, and his only way to remain happy was to take their lives. At the end of the week, close onto his trail, police found Viktorr's body in the center of Preston. Locals called this week the "Indignation murders."

Ten years later, on the anniversary of the murders, after families have mourned their lost ones, things start to take a turn for the worse. Sightings happen around Amounderness house, and people again start to go missing. Posing the question.. Is Viktor back? Or is someone playing a heartless joke on the locals, by mimicking the murders of ten years ago?!

Highlighting Letters in our Trailer

We have a looked at The Da Vinci Code trailer to display our ideas for the lettering used within our trailer to reveal the name of the murderer. It highlights the first letters from each victim and brings them together to create the complete name.
The section of the clip we're focusing on begins at 2 minutes and 12 seconds.

Map Edited Images

To add to the mise on scene of the trailer, we decided to create a "map" mapping out the killings that took place, and who was murdered.

It also gives one of the character's names "Victorr Thistle" He has this name as the 14 murders he has committed, each victims first letter of their names spell his name - this is why he has two "r"s in his name. This could maybe convey something like the case of Jack the Ripper where two people were killed in the first night but he was disturbed whilst murdering the first victim and found another victim with the same letter, therefore giving him two R's.


Joe used After Effects to change some of this.

To give the effect that the first letter is significant, I created a new title and selected a blue circle over the first letter of the Letter

I then placed a black box over the top of the image, this allows the images around the selected letter to be black so more en thesis is placed onto the text

I then used the effect "Colour Key" and selected the colour blue. This changes the layout and lets the blue circle look like it has been present. It makes it look a lot more important and makes the viewer really look into the letter

I then added a fade effect which makes the images interlink so it was all one video.

Ideas for movie poster

After looking at movie posters, I felt inspired by the "Shutter" movie poster. So I did a mock up of a possible movie poster, using an image of Taylor's face, with a montage of other images taken in the building we filmed at. I used a desaturated image, and changed the levels and used the burn tool to get a "burned out" effect on the image.

My mockup:

Analysis of movie poster company credits

To be able to make the company credits at the bottom of a horror poster, I looked at existing ones, so that I could determine exactly what information is in the credits.

New Photoshoot: Empire Magazine and Action Shots

We decided to go and take a photo shoot and take pictures of more interesting, and more exciting action poses.

Below is the contact sheet on the different images that we took

Name idea

Bicycle For Two – based on the whistling idea, using the song “Daisy Daisy”  “But you’ll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle made for two.” Is very ominous towards the plot of the story, it could mean Joe and Taylor but it could also mean maybe the whistler wanting Taylor?