Choice of Trailer and Synopsis

Choice of trailer
The trailer for Francesca will be a highlights trailer. This type of trailer is used 90% of the time in real life. This is because it allows the producers to display all the best bits of their overall film in an effective way. Through quick montages; including slow and quick scenes, to present the narrative but keep it fast paced and exciting. This is shown in the trailers for Evil Dead (2013) and Pusher Trilogy (1996-2005), which always use slow to quick montages/ collision cutting to create a jump scare.

Synopsis (film)
   A young girl called Francesca was sexually abused by her father as a young teenager (14-15 years old). She continues to go to school and is picked on for being quiet and smart by the school boys. She later seeks revenge on her father and brutally kills him still at her young age.
   After this murder Francesca gets a thrill from the revenge she brought upon her father and continues this onto men that give unwanted sexual attention to her and other females.
   She does this by placing herself at pubs and night clubs in search of her next victim. One night she takes this too far and kills a married, decent man. This leaves the wife distraught and on a separate revenge mission to kill Francesca.
   At the end of the film Francesca is killed by the wife of the man she killed.

Synopsis (trailer)
   The opening shots to the trailer show Francesca’s father leaving a bedroom, doing his belt up, to delicately suggest sexual assault. It then continues to Francesca’s’ revenge on her father where she stabs him to death.
   The trailer then shows brief encounters with different men that have harassed her or other women, resulting in the death of the man. This is shown in alley ways, night clubs and a mystery ‘torture room’.
   Throughout the killings in the trailer, Francesca has frequent flash backs of what her father did to her, which is making her progressively emotionally unstable and causing her to self-harm and convince herself that she is bringing justice and helping the world. 
   The trailer ends with Francesca in a room with a man, who is struggling for his life and hints that he is going to be tortured.
        

Shot Lists for Francesca

Prop list

• Fake blood 
• Mirror door
• Fake knife/s
• Scissors
• Chair
• Rope/scarf
• Carrot
• Rabbit toy
• Drink/ glass

Shooting Schedule

Practice Storyboard

Health and Safety Assessment

Horror Moodboard

The two images of the women represent our final girl and main character. She is a strong woman who kills men which have given unwanted sexual attention to her and other females. This is because she was sexually abused as a child by her father. Unconventionally, our female killer is blonde and goes against the archetypal killer. This links to the female killer in Kill Bill (top left hand corner) which was betrayed by a male and seeks revenge. She reflects our blonde killer with the courage and heroine vibe.

Although she is strong and independent, there is still innocence about her and she is still a ‘little girl’. Therefore, there is a likeable sense about her and she is an anti-villain. This reflects the other image from Carrie (bottom right hand corner) where she is a teenage killer but still frightened and somewhat normal at home. This is shown in the image as ‘Carrie’ is seen looking at her hands and frightened of what she’s done.

We have included an image of a symbol that represents feminism as Francesca’s actions are very biased towards women, and protecting herself and others from men. Some men view women in a motherly, stay at home and serve the husband role, in a functionalist and patriarchal society. Our blonde female killer subverts this role and dominates over men and their stereotypical thoughts of a ‘blonde bimbo’.

We will be focusing on a lot of body horror as this is our main genre theme. Also, because the blonde killer will be involved in alot of murders which will occur in various different ways and effects. 

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