Planning - Idea 2 - Trick or treat game

Whilst discussing our idea we realised that we may find the trailer very difficult to make for a variety of reasons, which included that it was no longer Halloween and therefore to get a range of houses for trick or treating that we could decorate well enough to fit the theme of the film would be very difficult, we also realised how difficult it would be to get a large enough range of young children who were able to be in our film. However, as we liked the idea so much we continued with the ideas bur brainstormed how we could develop them so that they would work better.

We loved the Halloween idea so wanted to continue with this, we looked at the films we had researched and tried to look for inspiration from these. Alice, a member of my group had watched a film called would you rather, so we all went away and watched that ourselves, to form our own research. We all thought using the idea of a group of friends playing a game that turns sinister could be interesting. As we were using teenagers and still wanted some individuality we thought the game could be Truth or dare, and there could be a point where one of the friends says a dare that is much worse than the others previously used.

By doing this we were loosing our idea of a stranger being involved, and we liked that idea, so we thought there could be a knock at the door, which is a stranger who somehow gets into the house, even against there denial for him to get in. He could join in the game and make it much more sinister.

We originally thought that the game did not have to take place inside a house and could happen in a public place such as a park. However, when we thought about this idea realistically we knew we do not have the equipment that would benefit this, as it would need to be filmed after it was dark, that way there would be no children in the park and it would be more scary as the darkness sets the scene, so we would need a camera that could pick up clear images even in the dark. But also, if we were filming outside The diegetic sound, such as dialogue may be affected by the wind, which would impact our film massively.