PLANNING: BACKGROUND RESEARCH

Our main inspiration to create a trailer for a Horror/Thriller film came from a YouTube channel under the name of Evan Royalty. Even Muir, the channel's own, creates short films with the production company Retro Digital. His short films are inspired/based on the SCP Foundation. A public and online forum, in which members create 'anomalies' for this made-up Foundation to have in their possession. These anomalies range from comic horrors to a harmless teddy bear. The main purpose of the SCP there is no limit on what an 'anomaly' can be. Evan has created two short films and is currently in the production of his third. For our project, we plan to recreate a similar product as Evan's films. 

Evan Muir

SCP: Overlord is Evan's latest short film that is currently in production. What we all agreed that we liked in this trailer was the tense atmosphere that is created from the hard soundscape and dark colour grading. As well as this, it features the military theme that we are also wanting to create and gives us guidance on how to using this theme effectively in a trailer. 

SCP: Dollhouse is our main inspiration for our production, as it is Evan's first short film made with a production company. Before this Evan would use the help of friends and animation software to make his short films. Here he was able to use the budget and man-power of a production company to make his film. It has the military and horror theme that is to be expected of the SCP universe. Here the main threat is not shown to the audience it is only teased.