Cast
The antagonist that I have used for my products is a young girl aged around 12. The reason that I have used a young girl is because it is not what the audience expects as the connotations for a child are quite sweet and innocent. This innocence is then taken away when the young girl becomes the antagonist and starts terrorizing the victim. In recent years it has become quite conventional for children to become the antagonists in horror films. Films such as Orphan and The Unborn both use children as the killers as it what the audience least expects and creates a sense of surprise to the audience. Although the young girl is the antagonist, we have dressed her in a pink dress and cardigan with her hair tied back. This challenges the conventions and the idea of her being a killer as she looks so young and innocent. However, to make her look scarier after the crash we did her make up to make her look as if she was back from the dead.
Shooting Locations
Most of the trailer is shot inside the protagonist’s house and car, this makes the audience feel more comfortable and safe as when you are at home is when you feel most secure. This also gives the audience a false sense of security as they trust that nothing bad will happen in the safety of their own home. Once again his technique was also used in the Paranormal Activity trilogy.
The setting I chose for the place of the young girl's death is amongst a lot of tall, thin trees which gives the trailer a more eerie feel. This gives a creepy effect as the woods is suggested to be mysterious and dangerous.




