Initial Ideas
Our overall Idea - Our Idea is inspired by the movie "IT". We were inspired by the whole killer clown idea and we thought about taking a similar plot where a clown kills children. We decided against stealing the idea but we decided to manipulate the idea of using clowns into something which has not been done.
Our Final idea
Our final idea was inspired by the killer clown idea from "IT" and from real events in the past. Taking the idea of having a killer clown in our trailer we were looking at recent events and real stories about clowns. We therefore came to the idea of basing our trailer on the Killer clown phase that swept across the UK and US rapidly in 2016 where clowns hid in bushes, stood on street corners and tried attacking and murdering people. We are also mixing this storyline with the past events of John Wayne Gacy but slightly twisting his story. Our Trailer is going to start off with a child when they were younger being beaten by their parents and this person grows up to become a clown. This clown in the UK on halloween night where kids are going trick or treating. Nobody suspects this clown as being a killer as there are loads of people wearing clown masks and the clown starts off killing one person and then attacks and kills more and more people every time. As people realise that this is happening, more people decide that they are going to dress up as clowns and start attacking people as a joke. Eventually, this turns into a phase where masses of people are joining in and becomes uncontrollable. |
Who is John Wayne Gacy?
John Wayne Gacy is a U.S serial killer who was found guilty of killing and sexually assaulting 33 boys and young men 1980.
Gacy had a very abusive childhood and he failed with his sexuality. His father would be drunk most nights and therefore beat Gacy and his siblings if they ever misbehaved, even Gacy's mother was assaulted. Furthermore at school Gacy failed to fit in with other boys and couldn't join in activities because of his heart condition, Gacy soon realised that he became attracted to men and therefore drove him to sexually assault vulnerable boys and young men because of his jealousy, and passionate desires he couldn't control. Gacy had a great life and job, working as a fast-food chain manager, and further becoming a self-made building contractor. He was also very well liked within the community and would also be a clown performer at children parties, supposedly filling his mind with horrific thoughts that he later showed. Yet; he was convicted in 1968 and given 10 year prison sentence for sexual assualting two teen boys, he was released on parole in the summer of 1870. It was later discovered he had committed his first known killing in 1972, taking life of Timothy McCoy after luring the teen to his home. This later became a huge downfall of the real John Wayne Gacy, 15 year old Robert Piest went missing when his mother told the police he went for an interview for a potential job application at Gacy's building firm. Police searched Gacy's home in Norwood Park Township and uncovered evidence of his involvement in numerous horrific acts by discovering bodies buried underneath his home and garage and a number nearby in Des plaines River. The way Gacy had been able to murder these victims was the promise of construction work; instead Gacy would viciously assault and ruthlessly strangle most of them with ropewhislt been dressed in his "Pogo the Clown" costume. Gacy became known as one of the most vicious serial killers in U.S. history. He was sentenced to serve 12 death sentences and 21 natural life sentences.John Wayne Gacy died by lethal injection on May 10, 1994. |
Here are a few clips of an interview with John Wayne Gacy 13 years after he has been sentenced to death
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Costumes
We will be using a clown mask or makeup depending if it looks realistic or not then we will decide what looks the best. We do believe that if we use clown makeup instead of a mask then it creates a more tense and terrifying as it shows the clown facial features therefore creating that sinister representation. We also want the clown to have a symbolic representation of being scary for example we want to make the clown funny and childish but also give it an evil , sinister look so our audience is unaware of the events that could happen. We want our killer that will be the clown to wear white dirty clothes
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Location
Our Location of the trailer will be in a abandoned flat on halloween night in the year 2017. The flat will be used to encourage children to go there as its supposed to be scary, therefore building the suspense for the audience early in our film.
We took photos of a house that has been abandoned for a while, we decide to use this location because in our trailer we needed somewhere realistic, creepy and thrilling that the killer can use for his home. This also allows us to make the killer as terrifying and gruesome as possible because it shows how alone he is because he lives in this house. Which can suggest that the killer is mentally ill. Furthermore it allows us to be aggressive, loud whilst we are filming the trailer and in particular the death of the victims.
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We have chosen Halloween night because for a killer it will be easier to approach and persuade children to go to a certain place to gather more sweets. We wanted to use halloween night as a camouflage for our killer because no one will suspect anything in the night of halloween when it is suppose to be a fun, eventful night.
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Music
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