Research and planning-proposals

Plot 1: Three friends have a dream on the same night, where they see a man killing them. It is the same man in all of their dreams. The next day when the kids go into school they tell each other about their dreams. The man in their dreams then appears as their new school teacher.

Cinematography

• high angle on the students show vulnerability
• low angle on the teacher 
• pan in classroom showing student and teacher
• close up of students face during tense moments
• canted angle during the chase

Mise-en-scene

• forest
• road
• classroom
• books, pens, desks
• natural makeup-girls
• casual clothing
• natural lighting-classroom
• low key lighting in forest and chase sequence
• weapon

Sound

•  screaming
• tense beat
• a sting to scare audience
• sound bridge of humming
• diegetic sounds-other students walking around
• tick tock sound like clock counting down throughout trailer-builds suspense

Editing

• slow mo for drama
• flashes to show flashbacks or coming out of dreams
• fast editing
• black out at the end
• fades-shows losing consciousness 

Plot 2: A man or woman forgets everything they know about their life. They soon find clues that reveal that they are a serial killer. and objects on the floor trigger flashbacks of previous crimes and murders. but is he really the serial killer or is he being set up?


 Cinematography

• High angle on the man when he doesn't know about the killing and then low angle on the man when he finds out to show the change in power
• over the shoulder showing the body from the man's point of view
• close ups on the objects in the bedroom on the streets- or see an alleyway
• POV of alleyway
• long shot of him looking at alleyway
• medium shot of him waking up in bedroom at the beginning of the trailer

Mise-en scene

• locations-street, bedroom, alleyway, bathroom
• props-newspaper articles, the TV, photos
• grown up casual clothing
• man-dark clothing-evil
• high key normal lighting in the bedroom and before he remembers
• then low key lighting in the flashbacks when he remembers

Sound

• tense rhythm(maybe slow)
• fast beat music when he realises what he did
• echo speech/sounds in flashbacks-shows distortion 
• whispers
• normal diegetic sounds from people passing by
• diegetic screaming- from flashbacks of murders - in his head

Editing

• slow motion into past tense
• fast editing when doing the murders
• white flashes before every falshback
• fade to black when he wakes up
• jump cuts when moving around the room-shows confusion