Trailers which inspired us-

Here are some of the trailers in which inspired us to create a trailer using a clown like figure. The main film which related to our idea is 'IT', we feel it has the most effective scenes and use of MES appropriately.
However, we decided to change many ideas as we didn't want to look as if we were copying Tommy Wallace's film completely. This includes a different use of colour in the outfit, different colour wig and more realistic locations. We got a lot of inspiration from IT requiring the different scenes and story lines. We feel a horror film would work best using a clown when luring in children and demonstrating gore and fright. We really like the idea of using a balloon as the only prop to help show the characteristics but also look appealing to children. Young children would be attracted to the ballon and lean towards it, however, they would be in for a shock when seeing what was holding it. As 'IT' is so popular and well known we thought it would have many different ideas for inspiration enabling us to create a successful product.

The film 'Hello Bingo' was found online. They also use a clown to create the horror film. We got inspiration from the film by using original colours and props. In the film he uses a baseball bat to attack people, however, we would rather use props to lure in characters not scare them immediately. 'Hello Bingo' shows aggressive and violent scenes of attack, however in our trailer we want to make our clown look suspicious, eerie and extremely frightening due to the mise en scene, camera shots, sounds and editing. We feel our product will be most successful by doing this.

The trailer for stitches came across as too amateur and comedic for our ideas and what we want to achieve. However we got different ideas of how we can target children as they are the vulnerable and innocent age group in which we want to portray in our trailer. They also film a lot in at night which helps create a tense atmosphere. We will try and film at night as it conform to the horror genre and will look very appropriate when introducing the clowns presence.

We got a variety of different ideas and inspiration from these trailers as they all have a similar connection to what our trailer intends to be. The use of a clown can appear extremely frightening and mysterious which is why we feel it would be successful for our horror trailer. After researching these trailers our costume, sound, location, lighting etc ideas have become much stronger developed.