After looking at existing trailers and films from a variety of genres, I have began thinking about what genre I would like my trailer to belong to, and which would be realistically possible. I still believe a horror film would be the most effective type of film when created on a budget of zero as a lot of the scary things can be edited on the computer, such as the dark colouring to the footage and the eery music, and this therefore doesn't require a high budget. There are also a lot of conventional horror film shots and iconography that will not require a hollywood style budget, such as the frequent use of 'creepy' children, loud noises that come from no where and gory shots. This genre is also going to be the best when overcoming another issue - not having access to professional actors. This therefore makes a lot of dialogue inconvenient and likely to lower the quality of the overall trailer. Horror film trailers do not focus heavily on text and instead use writing to create a vague sense of story, and this would be ideal for amateur film making.
I have considered my ideas from my brainstorming and decided a ghost story would be too difficult with no budget as a lot of the things expected from a film in this style require stunts or advanced equipment which can hide elements on the screen. An example would be the iconic moment in Paranormal Activity where the lead female is dragged out of bed by nothing. I have also ruled out a possession style film as again this requires advanced skills and equipment I do not have access too. It is also likely to require a lot of speech and I want to avoid this in my trailer as it will look amateur as I do not have access to professional actors.
This leaves me with the stalker idea or a teen horror. I can easily combine these two, however I want to focus less on the stalker element as this is not a very realistic film idea. There are very few films which feature a storyline only about someone being stalked and this is due to the lack of interest from the audience.
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