Initial idea 1: Kidnapping

 

The first idea involves a business man who is on his way home, being kidnapped and told he must commit an assassination or his son will die. The man is given 24 hours to commit the assassination but instead of attempting the assassination he uses that time to try and get his son back as he realises that these men will never let his son go even if he does it. After searching through London investigating leads he finally finds and rescues his son.

If we were to make a trailer out of this story the majority of the trailer would be focused on showing the father investigating and looking for his son. We would also show the man being kidnapped and told what to do which would make it a lot easier for the audience to understand what’s going on in the trailer. The theme of this trailer would be crime thriller so we would have to give this trailer a mysterious feel as well as creating tension for the audience. We would most probably use no music in the beginning of the trailer and build the music up as it goes on as this would create good tension for the audience. We may have to show some clips in the begging of the teaser trailer of the father and son together to show the love between the two characters, this will make it more convincing for the audience and will also make the trailer a lot better. This teaser trailer would have to go from a fairly slow pace to a very fast pace as the trailer goes on thus creating maximum tension. Also, the acting would have to very good and would have to show a lot of emotion if we were to do this teaser trailer.

A film that gave us inspiration for this idea was the film ‘Taken’ (2008). This film stars ‘Liam Neeson’ who plays a retired bodyguard whose daughter gets kidnapped in Paris. He travels to Paris to investigate and question numerous criminals and eventually finds his daughter and brings her home safely. This movie uses the relationship between the father and daughter to great effect as this gives the film a lot of tension and suspense. The trailer for this film shows clips of the father and daughter and then moves on to showing the father trying to find her. The speed and pace of the trailer gradually increases as time goes on thus creating increased tension and suspense.