As the majority of horror films, regardless of their sub genre, include elements of gore through the use of blood, myself and my group experimented with the concept of using blood in our trailer and how best we could incorporate it to fit with what we were attempting to create.
Firstly, we looked at Scarlett's character and dealt with the issue of how we would best be able to incorporate the use of blood. As we want to distance ourselves from the slasher genre, we excluded the idea of having anyone being killed or stabbed violently on camera as we would find it hard to recreate to a professional enough standard. We also consistantly want to feature elements of red in our trailer and have them related to Scarlett's character as she will embody the danger and passion associated with her name. After this, we came to the conclusion that the easiest and most professional way to incorporate this was through having Scarlett appear to self-harm. We discussed the issues incorperating the blood in such a way as it may raise issues because it could be deemed as 'sensitive' material. However, we agreed that including this would relate the psychological/thriller sub genre as Scarlett is inflicting the pain on herself and the audience begin to ask why.
Our teacher provided us with some fake blood and we looked at how best we would be able to make it seem on camera that the cut, if it is to be filmed, is realistic. As we tried this at school, we made a fake blade out of a plastic cup and sprayed the fake blood on the cup to see if it was possible to create. We found that the particular fake blood that we used was very liquidy and wasn't a true representation of how much blood would be released were the cut to be real. In order to solve this problem, we ordered a thicker type of blood that is known as 'stage blood' as it is what actors use in horror films. Hopefully, a thicker type of blood will make the scene in the trailer appear more horrific and realistic to the audience.
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