Research and Planning: Proposal 2

A teenage boy goes missing, and after a while is pronounced dead. His family move away without giving the boy a funeral. He friends become suspicious and when they start get calls and voice mails from the boys phone number they begin to wonder what is going on and they can't help but think, is he actually dead?

Editing
The beginning of the trailer will be when the boy goes missing and is pronounced dead, therefore the editing will be slow with fades to black as it is a sad time. There will be fades to black when the suspicion begins. There won't be too much editing when they receive the voice mails to keep it realistic, but then there will be a jump cut with added dramatic sound to create a jumpy atmosphere while should make the viewer jump. When all of the horror begins to unravel the editing will become more fast paced and jumpy with lots of jump cuts and straight cuts to show the horror within.

Sound
The will be ambient sound throughout the clip to keep it realistic. The beginning of the clip will have slow sad music so show the sadness of the boys death. There will be diegetic sound throughout the trailer which will be the dialogue, and sounds of the phone ringing etc, which will be on it's own to add drama to it. When the drama begins to happen in the the music will pick up and be more fast paced to make it more tense. We would like a voice over to announce the titles of the film and the realease date and other information.

Cinematography
We think a collage of pictures to show when the boy dies will be effective as it will be emotional. The pictures we will use will be a mixture of medium close ups and close ups, with the last being a dramatic extreme close ups of the boys face to make it real and a shock to the audience that he is actually dead, it will also make the viewer feel sympathetic to the characters.When the phone rings, there will just be a long shot of all of the boys to show that it is just an ordinary day, but as they realise who it is, there will be close ups of each face to show the shock, and then a close up of the phone to show the boys name calling.

Mise-en-scene
The costumes throughout the trailer will be plain casual clothes to show that the characters are nothing out of the ordinary. The locations will be a few different places, like house and bedrooms etc, but they will just be everyday locations. There will be a school in the trailer which will be where they find the boy dead. We would need a few props, like the mobile phone etc, but everything would be easy enough to achieve.