Shooting Script

Our shooting script has 5 main scenes. In a normal trailer it will have more than this however since we are creating a horror trailer we wanted to minimise the amount we tell the audience.

Scene 1 Close up of mouth

Location – in media corridor in front of red door
Dialogue – none
Sound - cannibal soundtrack

Shot description
These shot are a series of three shots spread out through the trailer. We created these shots to tease the audience by not revealing full shots of the killer. We only revealed a close up of her mouth with blood covered and her beating chest also cover in blood. We wanted to film in front of the red door because it displayed continuity since red s our main colour used in out media products.

Scene 2 Victim

Location – in a cleaning cupboard
Dialogue – none
Sound – cannibal sound track

Shot description
These were a series of 3 fast shots of the victim. We made sure the audience saw the victim and the cuts and bruises to the face. This was helped link the trailer to the horror genre. The close up of the victim allow the audience to see an attack had been made.


Scene 3 Sink

Location – sink
Dialogue - none
Sound – cannibal soundtrack

Shot description
Weapons. In these shots we reveal the weapons cannibal uses. We also reveal the football that is key because it shows that the victim is stereotypical male. And finally the finger that helps connote HORROR. We have also used a sink covered in blood to link our trailer to specifically slasher, horror sub – genre.

Scene 4 Screaming

Location – media classroom blue screen
Dialogue - screams
Sound – cannibal soundtrack

Shot description
A brief finale shot of the killer screaming. This shows the craziness of her character.


Scene 5/ captions
All the captions used in our trailer were all red and the same font to portray continuity. The font we used for ‘Cannibal’ was the same as the font used on the poster again linking the media products together.


Filming script

1) White noise fussing in. cuts to 2
2) Moves to close up of the chest. This synchronizes with the sound of the heartbeat starting. Cuts to 3
3) Writing fades in ‘when everybody’s gone. Fades to black then 4
4) Writing fades in ‘she traps her victims. Fades to black then 5
5) Quick flash of weapons. Fast fades to 6
6) Quick flash of football. Fast fade to 7
7) Quick flash of fingers. Fades to black then 8
8) Extreme close up of the killer mouth covered in blood. It features the iconic fingers. Fast cut 9
9) Writing getting smaller ‘one’. Cuts to 10
10) Flash of victim. Cuts to 11
11) Writing getting smaller ‘by’ cuts to 12
12) Scene of victim clearly injured in shock. Cuts to 13
13) Writing getting small ‘one’. Cuts to 14
14) Close up of victim. Allows audience to see damage done to victim. Cuts 15
15) Cuts to extreme close up of killer with blood dripping and fingers.
16) Killer screaming.
17) Title ‘cannibal’
18) ‘Coming soon’ and credits.