Narrative

After deciding on the horror genre, we began thinking about narrative ideas. We didn't want our trailer to be like anything that had been done before.

One of our original narrative ideas was that a woman was being stalked by another woman. This drew on the recent increase in men admitting that they had been domestically abused by their female partners and also on the fear that women were increasing their standings in society.

However, we then thought that it would be interesting to include a supernatural element into our narrative. We wanted to include the theme of abuse, as it is a very relevant topic, and came to the idea of a girl who was being abused by her father.

After having researched abuse cases, many of the victims spoke about how they wish their abusers could understand the hurt they were feeling. We then thought of a question;

If a person who had been abused could have revenge on their abusers, would they?

In many cases, the abusers will receive only a prison sentence and not truly experience the pain and suffering they had caused their victims.

We thought it would be interesting if the victim in our film could have revenge.

At first we thought we would focus mainly on the victim (a teenage girl) in our teaser trailer, but it became difficult for us to create something that wouldn't include too much narrative.

We then realised that if we concentrated mostly on the father in the our teaser trailer, it would give less of the story away, thus inkeeping with the codes and conventions of a teaser trailer.

A basic outline of our narrative is;

-A girl is abused by her father. He eventually kills her and dumps her body in a lake, to hide the evidence.
-The father then denies ever having a daughter, and proceeds to try to forget about her. He appears to get on with his life, completely untroubled by past events.
-The girl comes back as a sort of half spirit/half zombie and decides to take her revenge on the man that took her life.

Obviously we won't include all of this in our product, because then it wouldn't be a teaser trailer, but we will introduce the characters of the father and the daughter, and it will be made obvious that the girl is not alive, yet not quite dead...