Planning for the Main Task

Trailer
Script

Mentor: "Every person has a secret, it is human to conceal things about ourselves that we believe to be not normal"

Mentor: "But what do you do when you are not normal perhaps not even... human"

Main: "What are you?"

Love Interest: "You're a vampire"

Mentor: "Vampires are not like the stories you have been told, we can walk in the daylight and control our bloodlust... if we wish it"

Mentor: "But there are those who can't"

Villain: "The human race is a primitive form of what it truly can be. We are the next stage in evolution"

Mentor: "We must protect the humans, it is possibly the very meaning of our existence"

Main: "They're all over the school!"

Storyboards

The following storyboards are described by scene

1-3: A young woman is running down a car park in long shot, fade out. The same woman is now in mid shot running from the side, fade out. Close up from the front of her running. A car appears around the corner of the car park, tyre squeal sound effect added as it turns. Match on action of her feet. They turn to face the car. Fade out with a boom. The revs of the car are still heard.

4-6: Two people are walking down the waterfront, one is the mentor the other is the main. The Mentor's dialogue begins dialogue "Every person has a secret ... not normal". During this dialogue we are shown the mentor talking and the Main's reaction. The Main is on the side closer to the sea. The final shot has a quick fade out after "Normal"

7-8: We are shown two flashes after the last piece of dialogue. Each includes a fade in from black and a fade out to black. The first is the main being bitten on the neck in close up to incorporate both characters. The second is a gun being held that comes into shot.

9-12: Fade in from black to see the mentor having a gun raised at him, this is a point of view shot from behind a car. The dialogue interjects from the voiceover "But what ... even". Cut and then there is a nice perceptive shot of the gun and the attacker as the gun is raised. There is a cut and fade to black as we hear a gunshot. We fade in from black to see a hole in the mentor's clothing where the bullethole should be he reaches inside the clothing grabbing the bullet, the camera tilts up as we see him hold up the bullet and smiling "...human". This cuts to the the attacker looking in shock. We cut back to the POV and we see the mentor punch the attacker in the face, dropping him. We see the point where the mentor was standing as he walks away and we see the bullet drop to the floor.

13: We see a single long shot of the Main and mentor walking, the Main stops and the Mentor turns to look at him and we fade to black.

14-17: As we fade in from black we see a hand pulling out a sword from a bag, this moves into a close-up of an angry face. This cuts into a POV of behind the main that moves in closer. We see a mid-shot of this attacker raising the sword. A match on action of the blade coming down. We cut to the main who has blocked this attack fade out

18: Fade in. We see a close up of the Main asking the Love Interest "What are you?". Cut to a mid shot of her smiling. Cut to a mid shot from the side, she leans in, cut to a close up she replies "You're a vampire". Cut to a close up of the main's reaction. Fade out.

19-23: As dialogue kicks in "Vampires are not ... bloodlust". We fade in to see the Main staring out at the sunset in a long shot and we cut to behind. Fade to white, slightly from above we see the main look up, cut away and we see the sun. Cut back and he looks down. Cut and the Main is in mid shot walking toward the camera moving into a close up before fading out.
We see a shot through a window of people walking past and we cut to a mid shot of the main watching them with a slight zoom into a close shot. Fade to black.

24-25: Whilst the screen is still black "But there..." is spoken by the mentor. Fade in to a shot of a drop of blood on the floor and tilt up to an open cubicle door. "...are those of us who can't". Suspense music kicks in. Cut to a shot of the main looking up from the blood. A shot from the toilet cubicle sees the Main open the door and recoil in horror. Cut to white abruptly with an odd sound effect.

26-29: Fade in from white of a black shiny shoe step onto cobbles fade to white with the odd sound effect. Cut to a long shot of pidgeons flying away from the villain as he walks through them. Fade to white with the odd sound effect again as we see him smiling.
He speaks in a close up "The human race..." we cut away to see the Main blocking an attack from a manand punching him in longshot. Raverse shot in mid to see kicking a man across a open field reverse shot as he hits a wall. We fade to white and go enter a close up of the villain bitng a man/woman on the neck "We are the next ..." cut to the villain getting up and walking away in long shot. Go back to the same close up "... stage in evolution. Fade to white.

30-31: Fade out from white to see the mentor, in a zooming mid-shot to close up. He says to the camera "We must protect the humans...". Cut to a gun being cocked, cut to an over-shoulder shot of the mentor and the villain standing at opposite ends of an alleyway with the villain being further away then flash to white with a thunder boom sound and reverse over shoulder of the mentor, cut to black

32: dissolve into a POV shot of the Main waking up to see the other vampires. One of them tells him "Now you are truly living"

33-35: Follwing a set of flashing images of vampires, cut to a long shot of the Main kicking an opponent in the chest from the side. Then over shoulder shot to see the main doing a reverse kick the opponents face, cut to see the Main assuming a fighting stance. "So you're going to save us all?" fade to black

36-37: Fade in to see three prefects ascending the stairs outside the common room, cut to close up of the central one. Fade to black, close up of the main "Yes"

38-39: Cut to a tilting up image of the school. Cut to an image of the love interest in mid shot "This is stupid, a fledgling facing an experienced Vampire" cut to a close shot of the Main "That's why its going to work".

40 +: Atmospheric music and appealing shots from Act 3

• The mentor appearing from behind a car and shooting
• The main striking a prefect with a snooker cue
• Gear changes and a car chase scene
• The Main disappearing behind a car
• The Mentor hiding behind a wall
• The Love interest holding a gun to a man's head
• The Main swordfighting the undead fencer
• The Main shooting a gun
• The villain beating up the Main
• The mentor kicking an undead in the face

>40+: Cut to black, the mentor says "Thankfully, the best place to hide is right out in public" The main taps a vampire on the back, an over shoulder of the vampire with the main in shadow. And a POV from the opponent of the gun raised to his eyes. Cut to black and show the title.

As is probably necessary instead of having a definitive idea for the film trailer. I will simply film everything I need and then create the teaser trailer. If needed I will either create a short or long teaser.

A short teaser may be better than a long one in some ways, as it can provide a greater impact and mystery. Unfortunately this is only for big budget films, who can afford to create a teaser trailer with no similarity to the next teaser or the Theatrical trailer.

I think that in its present form my trailer can only really be filmed as a long one, as it gives so much content and so much away of the story.

Ideas for a short teaser

• The Woman from the opening is followed to her car by the villain, to a voiceover of the mentor, the two scenes of the mentor and the Main arriving and the Villain following the Woman. The woman is trapped between the car and the Villain. The Main and Mentor get out of the car and walk forward.
• In school teaser, the Main is shown around school before and after becoming a vampire, cut in with at the end bit of atmospheric clips

Poster

For the posters i will create a set of the following. All of the photos will be taken during a photoshoot and a variety of poses will be photographed so that I can be sure to get the best possible.

• The main
• The mentor
• The love interest and the villain
• The main and the mentor together

Magazine Cover

For the Film Magazine cover I will create the following:

Using some unused photos from the photoshoot, I will create the magazine cover, likely to feature a character.