DESPERO (First Trailer Draft)

A2 Media Trailer

Title: DESPERO (Latin for no hope or despair)

Age Rating: 18

DESPERO is about four friends who are making a film for a media project about a local rumour. They go to an infamous spot (concrete mill), very well known in the local area where back in the 1960’s dozens of workers were killed when one of the tanks exploded and 3 other men were killed when they fell into a water filled hole and drowned (there’s actually a deep hole of water on the site with warning signs). Various rumours and tales are told, stories like people who never return upon entering. When the four boys arrive to start filming it all starts to go wrong, and what they once thought was a lie, begins to come true.

Stage I:

Four characters, Jamie (Princess), Ethan (Hero), Luke (False-hero), Ryan (The Helper II, behind camera).

All four boys are sitting in the mac room at school, researching the area and planning out their film. Background information is revealed about the site and the strange disappearances that nobody believes.

Stage II:

Ethan, Ryan, Jamie and Luke are walking up to the location through the forest, everyone admitting their nerves and an overwhelming feeling of unease.  Upon arrival at the location everyone splits up and starts looking around the site, looking for places to film and thinking of ideas. When filming noises are going off, bangs, smashes that are created on purpose, then un-explained and un-planned occurrence’s start happening. Also Luke starts to act odd, bursts of anger and sadness. (Jump-scare) Ryan almost hit by object thrown by unknown person. Jamie goes to take a piss.

Stage III:

Everyone starts to panic and realise that something is off, and the gate they used to come in will not open. Luke’s fits of anger become a lot worse until he passes out and starts having a fit on the floor. Ryan notices that Jamie has not returned and sets out to find him while Ethan helps Luke. It’s clear now that there is something seriously wrong with the location they are in, but they must find Jamie before they can leave.

Stage IV:

Jamie is heard shouting for help in one of the rooms, but when Ryan try’s to open the door it is locked. When Ryan goes to look for something to open the door with,   Jamie is heard screaming, Ryan eventually opens the door and Jamie is found dead covered in blood. Luke’s situation becomes worse and Ethan tells shouts for Ryan to hurry up. Jamie’s body has to be left and Ryan and Ethan who is carrying Luke make a break for the gate which they pry open. When they start to run away from the mill, they see Jamie’s lifeless body standing at the end of the road.

(The whole trailer itself will be very quiet, with a faint piano in the background in some scenes, this is a detailed version of the trailer and a lot of the plot included will be cut from the final piece)