Initial Ideas

For our group’s initial ideas, we put various ideas together for what our trailer was going to be, such as what genre the film would be. We put together a group of ideas we had come up with, and ended up with three ideas which we thought we could do the best: a Crime Thriller, a Romantic Comedy and a Vampire Parody. We eventually settled upon the idea of a Vampire Parody after voting upon which idea we wanted to do, as we all had particularly strong feeling towards the recent spur of vampire films and television shows coming out in recent times, and it was an area which had plenty of material to be parodied.

We have taken inspiration from various different vampire programmes and films, but one in particular we have taken both inspirations and ideas from the Twilight saga and its films. With the series gaining huge success over recent years, with the story following the romance between a vampire and a human girl, we felt that we could parody many things in the films, such as the romance of a vampire and a human, as well as the character of Edward Cullen in the film, who is played by teenage heart-throb Robert Pattinson (pictured).

We also looked at the music video “Vlad the Impaler” by the British band Kasabian, which is about a vampire character. The video is a comedic parody of vampire movies as well as B-movies, showing the vampire to prey on vulnerable women, whilst also fighting off nuns who are using holy crosses on the vampire, using various ideas taken from both novels and films about vampires. The vampire in the video is played by Noel Fielding, known for roles in comedy shows such as The Mighty Boosh, and so his take on his vampire character was comedic, both in the appearance the vampire and the actions of the vampire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM5YDI7ttME – music video for Vlad the Impaler.

We then discussed ideas of where we could for scenes to put into our trailer. We put forward various ideas, such as at a nearby stately home/hall called “Towneley Hall” and another called “Gawthorpe Hall”, as the houses have been around since Victorian times, and would contribute to the overall theme and feeling of the film trailer, using shots of the exteriors to use as possible settings for the vampires home, inspired by and parodying the settings from films such as “Dracula” and “Nosferatu”.